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2gb ddr3 and 500gb hdd. It's a terrible deal. In years past they've had emachines desktops complete with monitors for $149 & $189. You can get one now for $60 more with way better specs. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/eMachines+-+Desktop+/+Intel%26%23174%3B+Pentium%26%23174%3B+Processor+/+4GB+Memory+/+1TB+Hard+Drive/2633033.p?id=1218341072729&skuId=2633033&st=emachines&cp=1&lp=4

Not sure when/if they'll be gone by then, but I'm pretty sure you'll be ok. Lots of good prices on BR, but the $2.49 S/H for EACH movie really kills the deal and you're not able to select in store pickup.

You really never know when you'll have to line up. The best thing to do if you don't live too far is make runs over to BB and check out the line. The first year I went (2005) I didn't have to get in line until 1am, but the 2nd year it was 8pm, 3rd 4pm.. It seems to get more and more popular every year. Last year I was out there at 3pm and was about 40th in line, but I didn't get a thing I went for, but my friend got what he was looking for. We then headed over to fry's electronics and on the way back, we stopped by another BB around 2pm and they had all of the doorbusters and they still rang up as the doorbuster price too, which I believe is only valid until 1pm. I was so ticked off I waited in line at the first one for 14hrs. We now have about 6 best buy's within 30 minutes of my house, so I just go from store to store until I find a short line, but I won't have to worry about it this year, because they don't have a thing worth waiting in line for. They've had the same or better deals than BF over the last couple months. The $229 Gateway netbook I got from BB 2 days ago w/ 6 cell battery is a better deal than this $179 HP netbook and I didn't have to wait in line for 14-36 hours like others are going to do. Black friday is getting more and more popular and the real deals are getting more and more scarce. The first year I went to BB for BF, they had a $150 desktop package. It was $189 the second, and $299 last year. Some TVs have been coming down in price, but the 32" HDTV for $299 on BF has been $299 for most of the last two months. Oh well, guess I'll check out target or walmart this year.

I think there's some that just wait for the T-day paper and don't know any better. There's a sucker born every minute. Everyone will scoop the "doorbusters" up, even thought they're all pretty much crap this year.

I've had a few emachines desktops form BB BF sales and they've worked great for $150-$190 pc's. I was impressed that they had such high quality components in them.

No problem, good luck!

Best buy stores open at 5am on Friday and depending on where you live, you may need to wait in line for approx 12-36hrs. You'll get a ticket for any "doorbuster" items like this laptop and I believe you have until 1pm to claim any item you have a ticket for and if you don't, it will go back out on the shelf.

eMachine's=Gateway=Acer. I'll take a Acer laptop over a HP any day!

Anything is better than this.

I feel sorry for all of the people that are going to wait in line for the $299 32" Dynex when they can buy 3 models right now for $299.

Good to know at least HP has one happy customer. I've bought two HP craptops. Got the $379 core solo DV6000 BB BF special a couple years back and the sound went out after a year and the battery wouldn't last more than 1hr 15min. Bought another HP DV6000 from BB for $679 and had to have BB send it to HP twice for a Mobo replacement.

Hmmm. BB just released their "secret sale" carp. What do you guys think, should I go pick up a $299 32" Dynex HDTV now or camp out in line for 13hrs. and get one for $299 on BF??? Decisions, decisions....

If this was any other brand other than HP, I'd camp out for one. HP quality sucks! Many deals out there now and over the last two months seem better than any BF "specials" What happened to BB having Toshiba on BF? Like the $250 celery 3 years ago? Looks like I'm gonna do most my shopping online this year.

Not sure if it's the same at all stores, but the one I always go to hands out a color coordinated map. Purple for computers, blue for tv's, etc.