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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.

I can't believe they had a $299 laptop a couple weeks ago, but the best they could do for Black Friday was $349? Very dissapointed.

I believe the emachines bunldles between $150-$200 are always in the regular ad , but not the cheap laptops. Maybe $299 is the best we'll see for a desktop bundle.

I hear that. I can go to Costco right now and walk out with a 32" 720p lcd for $399 or 42" 1080p lcd for $699. I figured we'd see a 32" from BB for about $350, not to mention another desktop for $150-$200. What a joke. They better redeem themselves with the last minute deals.

Don't know what BF will bring, but just went to Costco the other day to check out some tv's and they had some AWESOME DEALS! Vizio 42" plasma 720p $699 Westinghouse 42" lcd 1080p $699 Westinghouse 32" lcd 720p $399 That's all I can remember off the top of my head, but I figured those are the prices I might find on BF this year.

You might be able to get some in-store credit if you take it back after Christmas claiming it was a gift or something. Last year my bro bought me a Phillips upconvert DVD player for $49.99 and I took it back without a receipt in January and got $69.99 (current price @ the time) in store credit. It wasn't part of the BF sale though, so I'm not sure how they'll handle something like the printer. If you get turned down by one BB, go to another.

This is gonna be the laptop that's $230 for black friday. They changed the sku/product number by one, so people can't price match, get angry they just bought a computer a week ago and now it's $470 off, etc. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8547824&type=product&id=1188560179362

The special doorbusters suck except for the $230 lappy. You can never go wrong with cheap, new computers, even if there are a lot of people that are gonna flame it for not being able to play games on it. Some of the stuff is available for the same price now, like the HDD and the Sharp 19" lcd tv. and the olympus DC is only $10 more! Anyway, I think they have another surprise for us, because at the end of the link if you change the "2" to a "3", you get this message "hold for thanksgiving weekend sale". Change it to a 4 and you get this page does not exist.

"The Price Guarantee does not apply to our or our competitors' free offers, limited-quantity items, open-box items, clearance items, mail-in offers, financing or bundle offers. Learn more about the Best Buy Price Guarantee." The Black friday tv's are "limited quantity". Sorry, but you'll have to wait in line like the rest of us. :)

The Envision 19" for $99 at BB is a pretty sweet monitor. I'm not sure if I wanny get that or the 22" for $149 though. I wish it was an acer. Bought one of the 22" lcd's that OD had a couple months ago for $179. I figured they'd be $129 for BF...

Good luck! You need a ticket for a real doorbuster anyway.