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Posted at 7:51 AM on Thursday 12/18/08 by
Ben
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CompUSA.com has the refurbished high end Gateway P-7811FX 17" WUXGA Gaming Laptop for $750 - $20 off using PayPal + $2 shipping = $732 shipped. It has specs and performance that make it a capable desktop replacement.

  • Core 2 Duo 2.26GHz, 4GB DDR3 Memory, 200GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
  • WUXGA TFT widescreen (1920 x 1200), NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS 512MB GDDR3
  • 1.3MP webcam, Card Reader, Vista Home Premium Edition 64-bit SP1
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      Airor - Posted 8:12 am PST 12/18/08 (8 Posts)  Report Spam

      I bought one of these at $1200 from Best Buy, and am very pleased with it. Heavy, to be sure, but what do you expect from this grade of desktop replacement?

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      henweee - Posted 8:19 am PST 12/18/08 (47 Posts)  Report Spam

      The specs seems really good. But i don't know about CompUSA tho.

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      wrong0 - Posted 8:21 am PST 12/18/08 (429 Posts)  Report Spam

      I'm buying it... don't even care if it's a refurb.

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      mtztmac - Posted 8:22 am PST 12/18/08 (155 Posts)  Report Spam

      4gb ddr3?

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      shapeshifter08 - Posted 8:27 am PST 12/18/08 (678 Posts)  Report Spam

      Hmmm.. a gateway? The specs are nice but the brand bothers me. Has anyone had luck with gateway?

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      TRB - Posted 8:33 am PST 12/18/08 (229 Posts)  Report Spam

      this seems like a GREAT deal, correct me if im wrong. built in mic?

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      wrong0 - Posted 8:37 am PST 12/18/08 (429 Posts)  Report Spam

      This was THE laptop to get about 4 months ago. Do your own research and investigate.

      http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3373

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      CompWiz17 - Posted 8:39 am PST 12/18/08 (4897 Posts)  Report Spam

      This is an amazing deal. This is probably the best gaming laptop deal ever offered in 2008.

      I bought this laptop for $1250 at BestBuy a few months ago, and have absolutely no regrets. It just flies through games. All of the recent games I've been playing work great on this with max graphics settings, at the 1920x1200 res. On the Windows Vista performance test, the graphics card and memory benchmarks get the highest possible score(a 5.9), and the CPU(5.2) and hard drive(5.4) aren't far behind.

      When I bought this a few months ago, I looked around at similar laptops from other manufacturers. The cheapest I could find something comparable was around $2500. Between the 4GB of DDR3, 7200RPM hard drive(and 2 hard drive bays), 9800GTS graphics card, full 1080p screen, wireless-N, and HDMI and eSATA outputs, this is a truly amazing deal. Plus, it's upgradable. If you want more RAM, pop in 8GB of DDR3. Or, if you want a faster CPU, you can put an Intel Quadcore in.

      If you're thinking about getting a gaming laptop, stop thinking, and get this.

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      CompWiz17 - Posted 8:40 am PST 12/18/08 (4897 Posts)  Report Spam

      #6: yes, built in mic and webcam.

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      mytibt - Posted 8:40 am PST 12/18/08 (41 Posts)  Report Spam

      Dead, I think, can't find it on their site anymore.

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      david714 - Posted 8:56 am PST 12/18/08 (484 Posts)  Report Spam

      There were two revisions of this laptop, the first one was a piece of crap and always overheated during gaming. They fixed the problem in the second rev. You can tell which one you have by the keyboard but I don't remember the details. Search the notebookreview forums.

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      heidelbergensis - Posted 9:49 am PST 12/18/08 (498 Posts)  Report Spam

      Tigerdirect owns CompUSA, and live.com gives you 5% cashback. After logging into live.com, you can find this laptop using

      http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4348628&CatId=17

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      horndoggy11 - Posted 10:13 am PST 12/18/08 (787 Posts)  Report Spam

      i got this for 6hundo on tigerdirect when it first dropped at $690 plus 10% cashback plus paypal deal. So suck it u burp noobs, i been rock deals way before Ben does. If you wanna know a deal you should just burp talk to me, cause i own at finding deals, i am 10x better than that douchebag Ben. Hes a wannabe Horndoggy11. burp off Ben

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      kaliston - Posted 10:47 am PST 12/18/08 (264 Posts)  Report Spam

      Thanks a bunch for the tip Wink Idea [image][image]

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      sandman - Posted 11:23 am PST 12/18/08 (486 Posts)  Report Spam

      Wow, nice desktop replacement. Great deal. #12, ditto #14.

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      tima - Posted 11:38 am PST 12/18/08 (398 Posts)  Report Spam

      deal is dead

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      need4mospd - Posted 11:50 am PST 12/18/08 (7 Posts)  Report Spam

      Dead. Would have been a sweet deal...

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      pkn - Posted 11:56 am PST 12/18/08 (268 Posts)  Report Spam

      burp... too late.

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      horndoggy1l - Posted 12:02 pm PST 12/18/08 (753 Posts)  Report Spam

      I was able to buy one earlier. Thanks for the 5% cashback, and sorry about this Ben, you're not getting a penny because I used live.com.

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      knightofold - Posted 12:50 pm PST 12/18/08 (72 Posts)  Report Spam

      I called both CompUSA and Tiger to see if I could order one. One said that they had a 200 count back order and the other one said the last one was ordered 20min before. O well maybe next time

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