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oh man, this was a SWEET deal.

I was able to get in for one -- I'll update the thread if I have any problems receiving it. They called to confirm my credit card & told me it will be "shipped out today." We'll see...

EDIT: Shipping info received. Will let you know what it's like when received, and what revision I get.

Yea, great deal, too bad its OOS.

Wow, I can't believe I missed it. You can't beat it. Oh well, I prefer to buy a 13-14" laptop anyway for portability. I want one with a 64gb+ solid state drive within the next year or two at this price, all other specs remain roughly the same.

I was able to get 2 in 2 separate orders. But then they called to verify my credit card and canceled one(Lucky for someone). Already has been shipped out today.

Just an update I was able to order one through a link on fatbacon. All i did was pay for the 2nd day shipping and I have confirmation that it shipped today.

wow would have been nice

I've heard from a few people who got their order cancelled. Mine is shipped out via UPS already. There is also $39 pending on my live.com cashback account.

They canceled order on those greedy people that ordered two and sell one on ebay.

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You want to bet I bought this laptop at regular price from bestbuy earlier this year? I bought the refurb as a gift.

Unlike you who will be stuck with a pink macbook that can barely do anything, I have one of the best gaming laptop on the market.

Thanks guys. Just bought 6 yesterday and they all shipped out. Any1 wants it for 900$ let me know.

I did receive mine yesterday -- only 2 days from shipping to receiving, which was pretty nice.

The laptop WAS a later (2nd?) revision. It does have a "problem" of the video card fan "whoosh"ing (revving up really quickly, then speeding down, and repeating every few seconds). It is not really much of an issue and has only done it to me during boot -- not so much during normal use.

It is a very nice laptop. I replaced an C2D Inspiron 1318 with 9-cell battery that I was just going to use for portability -- but I never actually brought it anywhere with me, so it was being wasted.

Also, the typical pre-installed apps/games were easy to remove, and there were only a few. Uninstalled Norton and am using NOD32 x64 version. No noticeable defects on this refurb. I am very pleased thus far.

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#38 - I took this from a comment posted by the author of Anandtech's P7811-FX review:

"Okay, updated with the clock speed info from nTune (as well as NVIDIA's specs pages). It looks like all of the shaders are 1250MHz, while the RAM speed on all the units I've seen so far is 800MHz (1600MHz DDR3). I don't know for sure what the clocks are on the 9800M GT/GTX, as I haven't seen a laptop with that GPU yet. So in order of performance, and assuming 600MHz GPU clocks on all the 9800 cores, we have:

8800M GTS
9800M GTS (up to ~20% faster than 8800M GTS)
8800M GTX (up to ~50% faster than 8800M GTS)
9800M GT (up to ~80% faster than 8800M GTS)
9800M GTX (up to ~110% faster than 8800M GTS)

Now, the maximum performance increase relative to the 8800M GTS is based on the game being purely shader processing limited. Many games depend on GPU memory bandwidth and fill rate as well, in which case the difference will be much smaller."

Also, I'm going to update my earlier post. I got the later revision (P/N has in 888 rather than 887 in the middle), but the whoosh sound is barely an issue.