warm deal on laptop (hp livestrong l2000), and its a good cause.

[hans007]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
To clear up a couple things here:

(1) Turion looks to offer about ~30 min or so less battery life under more intensive usage. However, in mostly idle usage Turion should provide equal or better battery life than Centrino. My site will have a more detailed review of Turion vs Pentium M in the coming weeks.
(2) The Compaq V2000z is a 14" widescreen Turion; should be the same thing as the Livestrong L2000 but more expensive and silver. All of the above should have the same exact chassis as the dv1000. For a detailed review of the dv1000, take a look here.
(3) There is no X200 in the L2000. It uses the Radeon XPress 200M chipset which uses an integrated form of the X300 GPU, sharing system RAM. I do not know if this is dynamic sharing or not.

For those who want a cheap Turion notebook that is built well and comes with a 3 year warranty, check out HP's business nx6125. 15" XGA/SXGA+, same graphics, Turion. Standard features include bluetooth, 3 year warranty, and biometric security. Starts @ $999

i've seen the radeon rs480 called the x200. its supposed to be the radeon xpress200 (hence x200) because its slower than an x300se.

 

[HomeAppraiser]

This deal rings-up at about $200 less than purchasing the L2000 direct from HPshoping after all rebates. $699.99!

http://officedepot.shoplocal.com/office...78123%26pagenumber%3D4%26clicksrc%3D01

I recommend getting the Briteview and the 512MB DDR SDRAM (1x512MB) option if they are not already included, and NOT getting the 12cell battery because it sticks out 3/4 of the bottom and makes the notebook rest unevenly on your lap.

For every special edition notebook PC purchased, the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) will receive $50 to help support their mission through public health, advocacy, cancer research, and education.

 

[pcNate]

This week, two models of this laptop are in the advertisements for Office Depot and CompUSA, both of them pretty nice deals, one is a bargain, the other is more of a power laptop. At OD, it's $699.99 after rebates, and CompUSA has it for $1299.99 after rebates. Here's the rundowns:

Office Depot:
14" WXGA widescreen
512 ram
60 gb hd
DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive
XP Home SP2
Free HP Deskjet 3847 color injet printer or Upgrade to Model HP 6540 for $49.99 more

Price: $1029 - $50 Printer MIB - $100 OD AMD 64 MIB - $150 OD Livestrong MIB - $30 instant savings.
Final: $699.99

CompUSA:
AMD Turion 64 ML-34 (1MB L2 Cache, up to 1600 MHz FSB)
14" Brightview Widescreen
DVD+-R/RW and CD-RW Combo Drive w/Double Layer Support
1GB DDR RAM
100 GB HDD
12 cell battery
XP Pro
Built in 802.11G & Bluetooth

Price: $1399.99 - $100 CompUSA MIB
Final: $1299.99

While you have fewer rebates to worry about with the CompUSA model, if you want a good deal, Office Depot is the place to be. Not sure of the processor in the cheaper one though. It's a Turion, just not sure of the model number.

 

[Alphafox78]

I just got a V2000 and I love it! I comes with ddr333 but it can use ddr400. I say get 256mb and just replace it with a 1gb pc3200 stick later. as far as the 200M, its not horrible but not super either. after tweaking it and upgrading the ram to ddr400 it does 3dmark01 at 3700. if you turn on T1 timing using A64tweaker it does it at 4200. the video ram is not dynamic and you can allocate up to 128mb to it.