[Pc_Support] Unbelievable 17" Notebook (update): $499 for HP Pavillion 9000z ...

[David Harris]

On 9/30/06, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> On 9/29/06, Bryan J. Smith <thebs413 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Someone forward this to the Dallas LUG/UUGs ...
> >
> http://dealnews.com/deals/HP-Pavilion-dv9000-z-1-8-GHz-17-Widescreen-Notebook-printer-for-500-after-rebates/134337.html
> > Add a Turion x2 TL-50 for only $75 more, double to 1GB for $40 more --
> > serious, kick-ass system for $614 after rebate!
> > I assume it comes with the standard GeForce Go 6150 chipset on its
> > own, and not the 256MB GeForce Go 7600 GPU/VRAM upgrade.  Hmm, I
> > wonder if you can add it though (probably not post-factory)?
>
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 13:54 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > I just noted it is $599 at the Winter Park store:
> > ... cut ...
>
> Okay, here's the deal.  I went to a local Office Depot store here in New
> York that also had the advertisement (only about 1 in 3-4 do).  It too
> was claiming $599.  But I configured the bare-basic configuration and it
> was $549 plus $50 shipping.
>
> If you add 512MiB for $40 to get 1GiB, it's $25 off shipping.  They had
> most of the other upgrades that you can get on the dv9000z web-site --
> $75 for Turion x2 TL-50, $50 for the 1680x1050 screen, etc...  The
> upgrade to the GeForce Go 7600 was $125, $50 more than on the web site,
> so I almost didn't go for it, but it was still $400 cheaper (after
> rebate) overall than configuring on-line.  I added the Intel 802.11a/b/g
> WLAN so it's Linux compatible (only $5.99, normally $10 on-line).

I'm not sure if the dv9000z does this, but someone on the LUGOD
list got the impression that the dv9000t does do BIOS Whitelisting ~_~
which is definitely not a good thing.


Reference:http://www.lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox/2006-09/msg00072.html