Toshiba Satellite 1.5GHz Celeron Notebook $500 AR @ BestBuy from 12/15

[Soopaced]

i have a 7 year old toshiba laptop that had an external floppy drive...does anyone know if this will work with this laptop...i would try it..but i cant open it yet as it is christmas present..thanks in advance

 

[treidenb]

I wish an old floppy drive would work, but it doesn't look like it will. I'm surprised how expensive some of those old external drives can be($70-$120). I found a site that showed old drives, but it doesn't look like there is a port on this new model. I don't know what is along the right side next to the PCMCIA cards though, if anything, but it isn't on the back or left side.

Also, in BestBuy's description(the link is at the beginning of the thread) it says that their is no internal floppy, but if you click the photo for the "expansions/drives" it shows a floppy in the front of the system.

Someone had also asked about the TV-out. Does anyone know if it is S-Video or just a yellow Composite output?

 

[jaybert]

Theres always the free after rebate external USB floppy drives from hp-at-home.com Its like $50 + $5 shipping and a $50 mail in rebate.

 

[dlaw]

Got mine today this morning. It is yet another (4th) Toshiba notebook we have in our family. It is great, especially for its price. I have to say I love it.

 

[slappy76]

Originally posted by: rimshaker

Originally posted by: ADUDE
dam this is not bad at all.

anyone in the NY area get one?


is it really 500$ after rebates?

Sorta... you gotta pay applicable taxes on $999 up front.

Yeah.. my friend and I got one from Queens. I had to get up at 8:30am. It was a LONG and UNCERTAIN 3 hour wait and I was the next to last guy. They got received 18 locally. There were 3 other guys behind me waiting just as long.. so the other 2 must've went home PISSED. It comes out to $580 BUT the guys were trying to sell me on the 3 yr service plan for $200. I said "It's not worth paying 35% the cost of the notebook and there are tons of exclusions and crap it doesn't cover"

BUT it actually had a clause for normal wear and tear (batteries, drive, kb, etc) and if the product can't be repaired the replace it. If the product has been worked on 3 times.. they replace it. And not for the $500 dollar cost.. for $1000. Plus if they go out of business it's underwritten by AIG and would still be honored. So.. I was interested.. still I said the price was too high. "We'll take off 100 dollars from the laptop".... SOLD! I figured it was worth 9 cents a day for 3 years of insurance.

Plus I was planning on getting a wireless networking card anyhow (50-60 bux)

680 after rebates... with the 3 year. Wish someone posted the ad from the place that was selling it for $899.. would've been super sweet if I could've gotten more $$ off but... I'm content.

 

[treidenb]

Where is the $50 rebate for the HP USB floppy? I found the site with the floppy, but don't see a rebate there or any mention of it anywhere else. The info says "compatible with HP Pavilion ze1200, zt1000, xp1000, xz1000, ze4000, or Compaq Presario 900 series notebooks," but I would think it would still work.

Thanks

 

[Runciter]

Originally posted by: jaybert
Theres always the free after rebate external USB floppy drives from hp-at-home.com Its like $50 + $5 shipping and a $50 mail in rebate.

I believe this only applies to purchasers of HP Pavillion and Compaq Presario laptops.

"If you purchase an HP Pavilion ze1000, ze1200, zt1000, xp1000, xz1000, or ze4000 series notebook PC between February 28, 2002 and January 31, 2003, you qualify for a $50 mail-in rebate when you purchase the HP USB floppy drive (F5101A) from hpshopping.com. (Please note that the rebate does not include any taxes or shipping & handling charges.) "

 

[Mysterie]

Originally posted by: treidenb
I wish an old floppy drive would work, but it doesn't look like it will. I'm surprised how expensive some of those old external drives can be($70-$120). I found a site that showed old drives, but it doesn't look like there is a port on this new model. I don't know what is along the right side next to the PCMCIA cards though, if anything, but it isn't on the back or left side.

Also, in BestBuy's description(the link is at the beginning of the thread) it says that their is no internal floppy, but if you click the photo for the "expansions/drives" it shows a floppy in the front of the system.

Someone had also asked about the TV-out. Does anyone know if it is S-Video or just a yellow Composite output?

It's S-Video. This lappie is great. Much lighter and smaller than my ze5000 (got the 15" SXGA). Mom wanted a $300 computer but this is sooo much better. Course I had to do the waiting in line...

 

[Undeniable]

Originally posted by: SSSS

Originally posted by: AG73
per phatwallet forums, pricematch it (with amex if it does Best value guarantee) to microcenter's price here to bring the price down to $400 after rebates

It would be very tough to price match as BB throws in a Linksys wireless PC card in the package. If you successfully price matched, please let us know.

I noticed a deak pixel on the LCD. What is BB's policy to exchange it?

after 15 dead pixels, the manufacturer will recognize it as defective. Under the 3 yr PSP with BB, its up to 5 pixels before we take it back....

 

[Undeniable]

Originally posted by: everman
wow that's not bad at all, especially if you're in need of something to take notes on ect, definitly not gaming. Tempting, but I don't really need it, hehe. If this deal is available now, I wonder what we may see in the future...
And on the BB extended warrenty thing, the employees are actually required to offer it to every customer, it's store policy, it gets really annoying really fast.

its called keeping my job....we are there to sell, not to stock shevles and clean. Well, Im not but some inventory and merch ppl are.

 

[Undeniable]

Originally posted by: formgen
I went today to try and buy at around 10AM. The salesman was all over me trying to sell the service plan and some accesories. And told me if I buy 4 accesories he would take 15% off their price. Well, I just checked my reciepts and he took 15% off my entire ticket. So I got the laptop for $940 because the free network card didnt ring up free and then he took the 15% off which dropped it down to $799.42. Means I got this sucker for only $299.42 after rebates!!!!!!

thats called inboarding and it can get him fired.

 

[Undeniable]

Originally posted by: slappy76

Originally posted by: rimshaker

Originally posted by: ADUDE
dam this is not bad at all.

anyone in the NY area get one?


is it really 500$ after rebates?

Sorta... you gotta pay applicable taxes on $999 up front.

Yeah.. my friend and I got one from Queens. I had to get up at 8:30am. It was a LONG and UNCERTAIN 3 hour wait and I was the next to last guy. They got received 18 locally. There were 3 other guys behind me waiting just as long.. so the other 2 must've went home PISSED. It comes out to $580 BUT the guys were trying to sell me on the 3 yr service plan for $200. I said "It's not worth paying 35% the cost of the notebook and there are tons of exclusions and crap it doesn't cover"

BUT it actually had a clause for normal wear and tear (batteries, drive, kb, etc) and if the product can't be repaired the replace it. If the product has been worked on 3 times.. they replace it. And not for the $500 dollar cost.. for $1000. Plus if they go out of business it's underwritten by AIG and would still be honored. So.. I was interested.. still I said the price was too high. "We'll take off 100 dollars from the laptop".... SOLD! I figured it was worth 9 cents a day for 3 years of insurance.

Plus I was planning on getting a wireless networking card anyhow (50-60 bux)

680 after rebates... with the 3 year. Wish someone posted the ad from the place that was selling it for $899.. would've been super sweet if I could've gotten more $$ off but... I'm content.

once again , this is against company policy and can get the persons involved fired...this disgusts me, our store is nothing like this...then again its not my career and I know far more than anyone else [in the store] in the area of PCs....plus its my second job....not my first

 

[Undeniable]

just you you all know...when an HP is built from a CTO [configure to order] they come with an extra battery free. A much better value than the usb floppy and you can select what you get in the laptop!


PS if you already havent noticed, I work at BB in PC sales so ask away [or insult if you like, I dont care]

 

[porkchopskie]

Xmas came much earlier for me this year I went to the BB in West Convina, CA about 8:20 this morning, and there were 7 people ahead of me. I got the 8th ticket for the right to buy this lappy. It turned out that they had only six of the S103 in store, and they decided to upgrade to the S173 to the last four people :Q. I was one of the four lucky ones
The S173 has a bigger screen (15'), bigger HD (30G). It has a faster Celeron CPU, and also came with Floppy drive and DVD/CDRW burner combo .... On top of everything, I also got the free Linksys wireless PCMCIA card, and I paid $850+tax for the whole deal. They gave me an additional instant credit of $150 to account for the BB rebate for this model being $150 less than the S103. The net cost is still ~$500+tax, but I only have to worry about $350 worth of rebate instead of $500.

Merry Xmas to all.
Time for me to make baby now

 

[trulfe]

is there a good internal/external tv program for laptops?

 

[jaymez619]

Sorry for not contributing folks. I figure this time is as good as ever. I was trying to get in on the deal but they were sold out in San Diego (nat'l city store). Later that day, some other shoppers told me that it is a desktop cpu that cannot be upgraded. The unit itself is not made by Toshiba. It's just their name stamped on it.

For those of you that did get it and plan to keep it, I strongly encourage you to get the store warranty. I'm not too familiar with their warranty service but I figure it has got to be better than CompUSA.

 

[Optical]

Originally posted by: porkchopskie
Xmas came much earlier for me this year I went to the BB in West Convina, CA about 8:20 this morning, and there were 7 people ahead of me. I got the 8th ticket for the right to buy this lappy. It turned out that they had only six of the S103 in store, and they decided to upgrade to the S173 to the last four people :Q. I was one of the four lucky ones
The S173 has a bigger screen (15'), bigger HD (30G). It has a faster Celeron CPU, and also came with Floppy drive and DVD/CDRW burner combo .... On top of everything, I also got the free Linksys wireless PCMCIA card, and I paid $850+tax for the whole deal. They gave me an additional instant credit of $150 to account for the BB rebate for this model being $150 less than the S103. The net cost is still ~$500+tax, but I only have to worry about $350 worth of rebate instead of $500.

Merry Xmas to all.
Time for me to make baby now

Pleeeease stop. You're killing me. I think living in W. Covina has a higher chance of any deals in BB. I used to live there but now in the bay area. At the Milpitas BB, they were sold out immediately since people were waiting at 6 am.

Let's hope they're restock. Yea, right.

 

[CJZ]

Originally posted by: jaymez619
Sorry for not contributing folks. I figure this time is as good as ever. I was trying to get in on the deal but they were sold out in San Diego (nat'l city store). Later that day, some other shoppers told me that it is a desktop cpu that cannot be upgraded. The unit itself is not made by Toshiba. It's just their name stamped on it.

For those of you that did get it and plan to keep it, I strongly encourage you to get the store warranty. I'm not too familiar with their warranty service but I figure it has got to be better than CompUSA.

Most laptop sellers (Dell, Compaq, HP, etc.) outsource the actual manufacturing to OEMs in Taiwan like Mitac and Compal so this isn't a big surprise. Also, most laptop processors cannot be upgraded easily.

On the issue of the desktop processor, according to intel documents, no 1.5GHz desktop celeron is produced, only a 1.5GHZ mobile celeron. Also as mentioned on FW, people have run CPU ID on the laptop and it reports it as being a mobile processor.

 

[THX]

Originally posted by: Undeniable
its called keeping my job....we are there to sell, not to stock shevles and clean. Well, Im not but some inventory and merch ppl are.

Believe it or not your customers don't care if you keep your job or get fired, it sucks to have an ESP forced down our throats everytime we shell out a bunch of money, only to try and be persuaded to fork over more. Best Buy doesn't want to make sure our products are working correctly within 3yrs, they just want the money and to make it worse the sales reps make it sound like we're morons for not paying for a one. Everything I have bought from Best Buy including a Wega, Xbox, PS2, head unit, PC (it was my first, P166 ), etc... have never needed an ESP. I've saved hundreds, am I the moron or is it the people who tried to sell me the warranties? Not saying ESP's are bad ideas, just that the pressure to buy them is irritating and condescending. They honestly work harder to sell us the warranty more than the product, which says something about the quality of what they sell. If BB threatens to fire you if you don't sell enough ESPs I would quit in a heartbeat. [/rant]

 

[unclebud]

pointing out that mah man shouldn't be so confrontational with his profile enabled like that -- somebody should pm him to warn him... any takers?

 

[dlaw]

Originally posted by: CJZ


On the issue of the desktop processor, according to intel documents, no 1.5GHz desktop celeron is produced, only a 1.5GHZ mobile celeron. Also as mentioned on FW, people have run CPU ID on the laptop and it reports it as being a mobile processor.

You sure? That's great news to me.....

 

[CJZ]

Originally posted by: dlaw

Originally posted by: CJZ


On the issue of the desktop processor, according to intel documents, no 1.5GHz desktop celeron is produced, only a 1.5GHZ mobile celeron. Also as mentioned on FW, people have run CPU ID on the laptop and it reports it as being a mobile processor.

You sure? That's great news to me.....

This is only if the CPU ID program was correct. Unless someone is willing to open up their machine and have a picture taken of the CPU then definitive evidence is lacking.

The intel product lines can be seen here and here

 

[nallur]

While I was at BB yesterday, I heard the head sales guy say that the CPU was a desktop CPU, not a mobile one. Like CJZ said, someone will have to open it up before we know for sure.

 

[Twister00]

I can't find any documentation that Intel makes a desktop 1.5GHz Celeron chip. I find it hard to believe that if the do they wouldn't have documentation about it. Also the Intel chipset used on the MB is designed for mobile CPU's. Some how it just doesn't add up. Seems to me that it must be a mobile CPU.

Just my humble opinion.

 

[dlaw]

Originally posted by: CJZ

Originally posted by: dlaw

Originally posted by: CJZ


On the issue of the desktop processor, according to intel documents, no 1.5GHz desktop celeron is produced, only a 1.5GHZ mobile celeron. Also as mentioned on FW, people have run CPU ID on the laptop and it reports it as being a mobile processor.

You sure? That's great news to me.....

This is only if the CPU ID program was correct. Unless someone is willing to open up their machine and have a picture taken of the CPU then definitive evidence is lacking.

The intel product lines can be seen here and here

From the two links, it seems that there's no desktop 1.5G....um......so I can just pretend and think it is a mobile.....doesn't matter if it is or not....just feel better. Thanx for the info by the way.