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The i15R-2105sLV is a great laptop, but what I said in the desktop thread applies more with a laptop since you cannot upgrade the gpu -- if you are going to play games, you will find the trinity chips are a better choice. This lappy from the Staples BF ad for $400 might be a better choice assuming the 17" screen is not too much... Item: 100375 Model: B5Z58UA#ABA HP Pavilion g7-2243us offers way more than just fun and games! The HP Pavilion g7 gives you everything you need to keep in touch, get it done, and have some fun, all in a distinctive design. •Next Gen AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M Accelerated 1.9GHz up to 2.8GHz 4MB L2 Cache Processor •6GB DDR3 SDRAM Memory •500GB 5400RPM Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection •17.3-inch diagonal HD+ BrightView LED-backlit display (1600 x 900) •Windows 8 15" at Target - Gateway 15.6" Laptop w/ AMD A8 Quad Core, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD (NV52L15U) $349.00

Brace yourself -- Minecraft is not light gaming. It uses OpenGL to create the cool effects. OpenGL is not directly supported these days, so even the integrated graphics of an ivy bridge i7 only make the game playable... http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph6332/50163.png It's easy to see that an A8-5x00 or an A10-5x00would be a better choice for you assuming you do not want to install a discrete GPU... Office Max - HP Pavilion Desktop Next Gen AMD A10-5700 Quad-Core, 8GB RAM, 1.5TB HDD (p7-1439) $499.99 Staples - HP Desktop PC w/ AMD A8 APU, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD (P6-2378) $399.99 Best Buy - LG 27" Widescreen Flat-Panel LED HD Monitor (E2742V) $199.99 Best Buy - Dell 23" LED-LCD Monitor (E2311H) $109.99 BJ's Wholesale - Samsung 24" LED Monitor $119.99 Dell - Dell 20" Flat Panel LED Backlit Monitor (IN2030M) $78.99 Dell - Dell 23" 1080p LED Backlit Monitor (ST2320L) $139.99 Dell - Dell 24" 1080p LED Backlit Monitor (ST2420L) $169.99 Dell - Dell 24" S Series Monitor $299.99+ hhgregg - AOC 22" Widescreen LED Monitor (E2251SWDN) $99.99 hhgregg - Samsung 23.6" 1080p Widescreen Monitor $129.99 Office Depot - LG 24'' LED Monitor $119.99 Office Max - AOC 22'' Widescreen Monitor $99.99 Office Max - AOC 24'' Widescreen Monitor LED Monitor (Thanksgiving Day ONLY) $124.99 Office Max - Samsung 24'' LCD Monitor $119.99 Office Max - Toshiba 14" Widescreen LCD Monitor $149.99 Office Max - Acer 20" Widescreen LED Monitor $89.99 Staples - HP 20'' LED Widescreen Monitor $79.99 Staples - Samsung 21.5" 1080p LED Monitor $109.99 Staples - Samsung 24" 1080p LED HD Monitor $139.99 Staples - Acer 23'' LED Widescreen Monitor $109.99 Tiger Direct - AOC 27" LED Monitor (A204-2708 $199.99 Tiger Direct - Samsung 22" LED Monitor $109.99 Tiger Direct - AOC 22" LED Monitor (A204-2206) $99.99 Tiger Direct - Samsung 24" LED Monitor (S205-2404) $179.99 Lots of good deals on monitors. I really enjoy looking at a 24" screen, but 20" is bigger than the laptops most people look at all day. You'll want speakers too... Office Max - Cyber Acoustics Portable Speakers $9.99 RadioShack - Gigaware 2.1 Multimedia Speakers $11.99 Staples - Cyber Acoustics Speakers (Entire Stock) 40% OFF Two satellites and a subwoofer or even just two satellites will get the job done.

If you have a Discover card, use that for everything. Stores like Best Buy, Walmart, and Staples (there are hundreds of merchants) offer 5% or more cash back on each purchase that starts at shopdiscover.com. You can use this cash to pay your bill or purchase discounted gift cards. I use mine to buy Staples $25 gift cards for $20. When you spend these at Staples, it's getting 20% off their best sales. Sign up for Staples Rewards. It's free and members get $2 per ink or toner cart recycled (up to ten/month), discounts on paper and ink, plus free after rewards paper, batteries, and other stuff. Rewards can be spent like cash at Staples. Often, you can monetize these by spending them on free after rebate items. It's not uncommon for them to offer some software as a download free after rebate. So you get what you paid for, plus the free after rewards stuff, plus the software, plus a gift card or rebate worth more than you could have cashed out at Discover. With all of this, it's not difficult to spend $1k in a year. When this happens, you are a premier member. Premier members get free shipping plus can recycle up to twenty carts per month and have up to six months to spend rewards. You should also buy an hp printer because it's pretty common to get double or triple recycle rewards when you purchase some amount of ink when you recycle. Eventually, you get into this vortex in which ink, paper, and computers are free. Oh, and you get the great $25 off $75 coupons. Isn't that why we are all here?

Which is why they charge a restocking fee

I got those two plus the 25 off 75. Receipt and Coupon attached...

Check your email and coupon wallet for a $25 off $75 coupon. $54.99 with free shipping!

For starters, any Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, or Trinity based system would do the job. If you want to mve your old disk to a new machine, you have some research to do. First, you will have to determine if the old disk is PATA or SATA and make sure the new computer has the appropriate controller. I recommend you abandon the old disk in favor of an external, usb disk. It will be easy to move your files from the old machine to the new (and any future) computer this way and you will not need to worry about what is in the case. If you really want to recycle that disk, make sure your new computer has bays for additional drives. The Lenovos tend to while most of the others do not. Here are some of the desktops in the ads. I highlighted the ones that would make sense for you knowing as little as I do about you or how you use computers. Good luck! MacMall - 21.5" Apple iMac Quad-Core Intel Core i5, 2.GHz, 8GB Ram, 1 TB HD $1,294.00 MacMall - Apple Mac Mini Dual-Core Intel Core I5, 2.5GHz, 4G Ram, 500GB HDD $573.99 AAFES - HP Pavillion All-in-One E1-1200 Brazos Processor, 4GB, 500GB HDD, 20" Monitor $399.00 Best Buy - Lenovo All-In-One Desktop w/ Intel Pentium CPU, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD (B540-57310400) $599.99 Best Buy - Dell Inspiron Desktop w/ 2.7GHz Intel Core i5 Processor, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB HDD, 20" LED Widescreen Monitor $499.98 Best Buy - Gateway One 20" All-In-One Computer w/ AMD E-Series, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD (ZX4250-UB308) $389.99 Best Buy - HP Desktop Bundle w/ Intel Core i3, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 20" Monitor (P2-1394/W2071D) $429.98 Best Buy - HP Desktop w/ Intel Core i3, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD (P2-1394) $349.99 BJ's Wholesale - Dell Inspiron One 23" Multi-Touch All-In-One Desktop w/ Intel Core i3, 4GB RAM 1TB HDD $599.99 Costco - Dell XPS 8500 Desktop w/ Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, 2TB HDD, 23" Monitor $999.99 Costco - Dell XPS Desktop w/ Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2TB HDD (8500) $799.99 Dell - Dell Inspiron 660s Desktop w/ Intel Core i3, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD + Windows 8 $399.99 Dell - Dell Inspiron One 20 Desktop w/ Intel Pentium, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD + 20" Monitor $399.99 Dell - Dell XPS 8500 Desktop w/ 3rd Gen Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD $699.99 hhgregg - HP Desktop w/ AMD E1-1200, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD (P21322) $299.99 hhgregg - Dell All-in-One PC w/ Intel G645T, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD (Io2020-4167BK) $479.99 hhgregg - HP Pavilion All-in-One PC w/ AMD A6-5400K, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD ( H3Z78AA#ABA) $599.99 Office Depot - HP E2 Vision AMD Desktop w/ 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD $259.99 Office Depot - Lenovo H430 Desktop Computer With 2nd Gen Intel Core i3, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD (57310097) $369.99 Office Max - HP Desktop Featuring AMD E1-1200 Accelerated processor & Windows 8 $249.99 Office Max - HP Pavilion All-in-One Desktop E2 Vision AMD, 6GB RAM, 500GB HDD (23-b010) $449.99 Office Max - HP Pavilion Desktop 2nd Gen. Intel Core i3-2130, 8GB RAM, 1.5TB HDD (p7-1410) $429.99 Office Max - HP Pavilion Desktop Next Gen AMD A10-5700 Quad-Core, 8GB RAM, 1.5TB HDD (p7-1439) $499.99 Office Max - HP Pavilion Desktop w/ A4 Vision, 6GB RAM, 500GB HDD (p6-2310) $329.99 Sam's Club - HP Pavilion All-In-One Desktop (23-b037c) $499.00 Staples - HP 20" All-in-One Desktop w/AMD E1 APU, 4GB RAM, 500 GB HDD $369.99 Staples - HP Desktop PC w/ AMD A4 APU, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD (P6-2376) $279.99 Staples - HP Desktop PC w/ AMD A8 APU, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD (P6-2378) $399.99 Staples - Lenovo Desktop w/ Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 1 TB HDD $449.99 Walmart - HP Pavilion All-In-One Desktop w/ 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 20" Display (120-1333W) $389.00

I'll try. There are a lot of companies that make processors. The two main players in the personal computer market are Intel and AMD. The current crop of Intel processors are called iCore processors. Intel is in their third generation of iCore which is characterized by the ivy bridge architecture. Second generation was Sandy Bridge. First generation was Nehalem. There are major three levels of performance within each generation. i3 is entry level, i5 is mainstream, and i7 is power user. There are also mobile versions of all of these and value variations that do not carry the iCore name but are of the same architecture. What you need to know about current processors from intel is that ivy bridge is the current architecture and that i7>i5>i3. You will also see 987 based systems. The Intel Pentium 987 is an Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) dual core processor for entry-level laptops. It is based on the Sandy Bridge architecture. Probably a good solutions for the use you describe. Then there's AMD. The current generation of AMD chips are called Trinity. They are i3-i5ish in performance but have a better integrated graphical processing unit (GPU) than the iCores. Like the intel chips, they are named by performance a10>a8>a6. If you are going to buy an entry level machine and want to play games, these Trinity chips are good value. If you are a serious gamer, you'd be better off getting an iCore and a dedicated GPU. hope that helps.

I agree that Win8 is designed for touch, but I am using it on a desktop right now and it's fine with a mouse. You can even pop up a DOS windows by holding down the windows key, pressing r, typing cmd, and pressint enter

Per Microsoft... •Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2 (more info) •RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) •Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) •Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

I got my 'big win' today at Staples. I may go out for some small stuff and assess the mahem, but I won't be in line this year.

I got the 64g wi-drive. This is for my wife so she can take movies to dialysis (4-5 hrs at a pop), BUT this will be great on a long drive as three people can all pull media off the drive concurrently. $80 is a little high for a 64g thumb drive, but you cannot use a thumb drive with a Fire, so this is not only the best solution, it's the only solution.

Same price at staples.

from http://www.kingston.com/datasheets/wid_us.pdf >>Works with iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Android devices and Amazon Kindle Fire >>Share your data with 3 users simultaneously

For all you tablet buyers, Amazon has the Wi-Drive discounted today... - 64g $79.99 - 32g $49.99 great way to share media among your portable devices.

the coupon is only for today, so you may be too late.

Maybe I need to get out more ;-)

I went to Staples today to pick up the Lenovo i5 desktop. To my surprise, there was a LOT of traffic. When I got to Staples, the parking lot was nearly full. I entered the store with two other people. Inside the store I had to wait to be served. This is very unusual at this Staples. When I finished, I headed over to Walmart to pick up an item I had ordered online. Again, the parking lot was nearly full. There were lines at every register and I had to wait behind someone putting stuff on layaway to get my pickup. This pre-thanksgiving activity was not caused by any major promotion as far as I know (and I know about these things). Are others seeing unusual levels of shopping this weekend?

I just got this i5 for the BF price using this coupon. This is a MUCH better desktop than I had guessed. The case is a little larger than the HPs you see these days and there are accomodations for two additional disks. Perfect for me. Also, there is HDMI out. If you were on the fence, this coupon, this price, on this day should seal the deal. - hardware replacement guide - Staples Full Details - Trinity vs iCore

In 2008 we got the kids a PS3. When I plugged it into my 36" Sony TV, it disappointed. I decided to take the plunge and get an HDTV. I got a bundle from Best Buy. It was stunning. Still is. Even today, after four years, I sometimes stop to admire the quality of a movie or a commercial. Last year, I decided to indulge in a new TV for my bedroom. This one is also a Samsung plasma. It too is stunning. I do not doubt Samsung had made some bad televisions. I'm sure the people who have had problems are very unhappy. Generally, though, most people who buy Samsung sets are very happy. This interesting article captures this paradox -- showing people have had more severe problems with Samsung sets than other major brands but are more satisfied with their purchases than than buyers of other brands. Samsung had a major problem with power supplies a couple years back. The problem is well documented and the solution is not very expensive. DIYers discovered and remedied the problem before Samsung stepped up. After spending millions to settle a class action lawsuit, I suspect Samsung has exercised this demon. While I remain concerned that my older set may develop this problem, I am confident it can be repaired and count myself among the very satisfied customers. I suspect those of you who choose a Samsung plasma will be as satisfied as I have been. Understand the issue and make an informed purchase.

First thing you should do is contact the college. They may have specific requirements for specific programs or offer discounts, support, and software bundles for students. My kid's collect offers preconfigured macs and windows laptops that include software bundles for each major and a support plan that includes a loaner laptop. They also publish software and hardware requirements and recommendations for each major.

i wonder if i can get the 'mobile' offers accessing m.staples.com via chrome...

did you notice that the pcmag article linked to gottadeal's staples list rather than staple's posted ad?

With unions, dues paying members pay the bills and serve as muscle in politics and recruiting. A single union manipulating all walmart employees nationally would be intimidating.

Walmart does not impress employees. They sign on of their own free will. No one comes to their home if they don't go to work.