jpeyton

You know what I would do in a purely hypothetical situation? Register new eBay account. Bid. Win. Of course, I in no way would condone placing a bid on these items without intending to pay. That would be wrong (just like selling GottaDeal's ads is wrong:)).

Are you going to the one on Canyon Road? The first chair looks sturdier at the cost of being slightly heavier; the second looks like it can fold up into a much smaller profile if portability is a priority.

True, but BF might also mean you'll have to schedule your installation a week after you buy it because they'll get swamped with free installations. Is it worth potentially saving $20-$30 to wait for the install?

Shopping online is worth it for a lot of other items. Lots of things are inexpensive to ship, like digital cameras, laptops, monitors, jewelry, etc.

Already did a little shopping, and a lot of selling :) BF2005 will be fun to scoop up a deal or two, but I'm not going to be standing in any hour long lines this year. I've already scored some great gifts online from various vendors (several that I found on the GottaDeal home page).

:) The condensed version: Celeron M > Sempron Mobile.

That's not exactly true. You guys have to remember that the Celeron M = Pentium M minus 1MB L2 Cache & SpeedStep. What does that mean exactly? Well having only 1MB L2 Cache (vs. 2MB for the Pentium M) drops the performance by ~5-10%...not that big of a deal, and nothing you'll notice during everyday tasks. Having no SpeedStep means the Celeron cannot "throttle down" its clockspeed when you aren't doing CPU intensive tasks. That lowers battery life by as much as ~20%. But the Celeron M is still a Pentium M at its core, and thus it is noticeably better than a Sempron in gaming and many CPU-intensive tasks. The Sempron has a paltry 256k L2 cache (one-fourth of the Celeron M) and it wasn't designed from the ground-up to be a mobile processor, meaning its battery life will be lower than a comparable Celeron M laptop. The XPRESS 200M should provide slightly better graphics performance, and another plus of the HP is that it has no rebates. Right now the Toshiba from CompUSA does have a rebate (although I haven't seen an ad scan confirming any other details). EDIT: Although I have to mention that CompUSA has done a fantastic turn-around of their rebate program this year. During the Compaq-CTO desktop fiasco, I got my $300 CompUSA rebate in four weeks.