Originally posted by: gba
Originally posted by: expert01
You can get basically the same laptop at Office Depot tomorrow for $389.99 + tax (no MIR)
Check out the
Newegg reviews on this machine... It appears your fifty bucks or so may be well spent if you prefer the
NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G motherboard GPU over the Intel 4500M/MHD that the Intel models have. There are other deals more or less equivalent to the OD deal on similar Intel models at other stores today... I have seen these two deals:
BB and
MicroCenter (B&M only) .
Other beyond-the-obvious differences I have noticed: apparently the model OD has (AS4730-4857) has two USB 2.0 ports as compared to three on the Newegg model (AS4530-5627), Wireless-N: 802.11b/g/Draft-N wireless LAN, as opposed to b/g on the Newegg unit ... the BB model (EX4630-4658) has the smaller 120GB HD and the Wireless-N: 802.11b/g/Draft-N wireless LAN. I am not sure which model MicroCenter has, but I heard there were huge lines of ppl waiting to get into the Cambridge, MA location yesterday.
It would be interesting to hear what ppl have to say about their preferences in terms of the CPUs, GPUs and the Chipsets... The 9100M G is
Cuda and
PhysX compatable.