My daughter needed a new laptop for college, she picked one out from Costco that had all the programs she needed for her school work.

 

I ordered it one week ago and today i received the email notice that it shipped..

 

From Shanghai china.

 

So much for in stock ready to ship, unless Costco is warehousing in china?

 

Well it say's 10-15 business days and i just assumed it was on us soil..

 

HP Pavilion dv6t Select Laptop 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3210M 2.5GHz Home & Student - Item# 688053

Costco drop ships from the manufacturer. HP's are made in china.

 

How much did she pay for it? Shoulda let me know - I coulda found something good.

I bet you get it within 2 days or so.

Costco drop ships from the manufacturer. HP's are made in china.

 

How much did she pay for it? Shoulda let me know - I coulda found something good.

 

Well i will remember that for the next time.. It was 699. with one year free kaspersky internet security..

 

What do you know about Kapersky is it good or stick to norton?

I bet you get it within 2 days or so.

 

It is on fedex jet as we speak i am assuming... probably newark bound..

Costco drop ships from the manufacturer. HP's are made in china.

 

How much did she pay for it? Shoulda let me know - I coulda found something good.

 

One of the things she wanted was beats audio..

Kapersky is fine. I don't like using Norton anymore - too much of a system hog and there are known exploits for it.

 

I don't see that laptop on their site anymore but one's similar to it (without the MS Office). For that price, it's a decent deal.

 

One of the things she wanted was beats audio..

 

Ugh that's kinda useless. But I guess she's not a true audiophile. I'm not either but I don't notice a huge difference with beats.

My wife wants a desktop/non mobile laptop to play Diabolo 3 with. What do you recommend?

 

Costco drop ships from the manufacturer. HP's are made in china.

 

How much did she pay for it? Shoulda let me know - I coulda found something good.

My wife wants a desktop/non mobile laptop to play Diabolo 3 with. What do you recommend?

 

What's your price range?

My wife wants a desktop/non mobile laptop to play Diabolo 3 with. What do you recommend?

 

 

Your wife is awesome! Yes..price will be the determining factor. If looking for a non mobile laptop youre just better off going desktop. Better performance for your money

 

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My wife wants a desktop/non mobile laptop to play Diabolo 3 with. What do you recommend?

 

You'd probably be better off building your own. Most gaming rigs start mid range and steadily rise to insane.

You'd probably be better off building your own. Most gaming rigs start mid range and steadily rise to insane.

 

Not really, not anymore. With the price of components and the customization, you can get a pre-built system now for about the same price or cheaper.

 

It used to be cheaper to build your own a few years ago but not anymore.

Not really, not anymore. With the price of components and the customization, you can get a pre-built system now for about the same price or cheaper.

 

It used to be cheaper to build your own a few years ago but not anymore.

 

Depends on use IMO. I've been pricing out parts, and comparing to pre-built machines and the one I want to build is better than most pre-built in my price range and intended use, and cheaper than dedicated gaming rigs.

Places like http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/ and http://www.ibuypower.com provide low margin, multi tiered gaming desktops to choose from. There has been a shift from building your own to save money, to buying something preassembled through companies who get considerable discounts for volume quantity ordering coupled with a warranty.

Since I'm super cheep, it'll have to be a desktop then. Doesn't need to be fancy, just good enough for a good gaming experience and the Office suite.

Places like http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/ and http://www.ibuypower.com provide low margin, multi tiered gaming desktops to choose from. There has been a shift from building your own to save money, to buying something preassembled through companies who get considerable discounts for volume quantity ordering coupled with a warranty.

 

They definitely have better prices than what I've been seeing.

Here's a couple of possible options.... You will have to purchase MS Office separately, however you can usually find the home/student or home/business edition for around $100-150

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220163

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227424

Thanks bud!

 

Here's a couple of possible options.... You will have to purchase MS Office separately, however you can usually find the home/student or home/business edition for around $100-150

 

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16883220163

 

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16883227424

This thread is disappointing. I thought you were going to say instead of getting a laptop, you received an AR or Sig 556 or something.

 

You can try here also http://www.tigerdirect.com/ I build a lot of pc's between tiger and new egg.

 

I normally build my own and install the software my self. I get a better computer for a cheaper price. I'll help any of y'all out if you wann go that route. Look at barebones section and I can build and install windows 7. Only catch is you have to come to me. I just had shoulder surgery and can't drive with this bionic brace i have to wear.

 

Here is a bad @ss kit with everything and a good price.

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3381862&CatId=5294

I'm not sure how good the new AMD processors are though. I prefer Intel. Core i5 or i7 is great for gaming.

From Shanghai china.

So much for in stock ready to ship, unless Costco is warehousing in china?

Well it say's 10-15 business days and i just assumed it was on us soil..

 

I order stuff from China all the time. Takes 1-3 business days. How that works, I have no idea, but they always show up. USB cigarette lighter adapters - $2.99 including free shipping from China. How do they make money? I have no idea. But, they are here in a few days, and always seem to work. Amazing.

 

I'm also ordering $20-40K of Apple stuff every two weeks, and some of it comes from the factory due to customization. Adds a day to the shipping time over things in California already....

I'm not sure how good the new AMD processors are though. I prefer Intel. Core i5 or i7 is great for gaming.

 

Definitely.

I'm not sure how good the new AMD processors are though. I prefer Intel. Core i5 or i7 is great for gaming.

 

 

I'll take AMD any day. They run cooler and use less wattage and over clock easy. My kids use the crap out of our quad core for gaming and I use it for music/video editing with 6 gigs of ram. But that's my choice they also have intell barebones there to choose from for the same price.

Just to let some know the amd phenom chip is not new. There new chip is this

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/guidedSearch.asp?CatId=22&sel=Mfr%3BMfr_66,Detail%3B112_479_74818_74818

 

An 8 core chip. Now I haven't used one so I cannot speak for it but I have built several of these 6 cores

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/guidedSearch.asp?CatId=22&sel=Mfr%3BMfr_66,Detail%3B112_479_61426_61426

 

When I build new towers ( I build a lot ) I like to convert a wav file to mp3 file and time them. With the older chips like pentium 2,3,4 and amd k6,k7,duron,Athlon, this was a slow process from 1 munite and up. This takes just seconds now with these newer (both amd&intel) chips.

 

But when I converted video this is where I saw the speed boost of the 6 core CPU. It rendered video faster than ive ever seen.

 

I wish I had a way to show some sort of prof but I don't. I normally have a few coustumers towers/lap tops ( yup I fix computers ) here but I just had shoulder surgery and don't have anything other than my own pc to play with.

 

Now I'm not a amd band wagon lover and amd is the best kind of guy but in the past 15 to 20 years building pc's and at first they were not easy to build as they are now I've had better experience with amd.

 

Now that I found this http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/guidedSearch.asp?CatId=22&sel=Mfr%3BMfr_66,Price%3BPrice9 I'm starting to think intel is fallin behind.

 

PS: I can't wait for the price of them 8 cores to come down. I want so bad.

 

To end my post. If any of you guys/girls find and would like to build a tower (amd or intel) I will gladly help with the build and installation of software.

I have one of these, but the Aurora version has dropped in price. Mean machines. Not always cheep depending on the build. I recently added a Solid State Drive to it, and it flies! I love this monster... Liquid cooled, etc.

 

Here is the Aurora:

http://www.dell.com/...&ref=1701gearUp

 

 

My wife wants a desktop/non mobile laptop to play Diabolo 3 with. What do you recommend?

I have one of these, but the Aurora version has dropped in price. Mean machines. Not always cheep depending on the build. I recently added a Solid State Drive to it, and it flies! I love this monster... Liquid cooled, etc.

 

Here is the Aurora

http://www.dell.com/...&ref=1701gearUp

 

 

Nice machine.

OH MY GOD I WANT ONE OF THOSE 8 CORE PROCESSORS!

 

I've been looking at them for a while, and I want to try one just to see how fast it is. I just can't justify spending that much on a processor.

 

I've priced out three configurations for gaming PCs from 3 different websites. Tiger, New Egg, and Geeks. Cheapest built is from Geeks, coming in at the mid $500 range, and the most expensive being New Egg at around $650. They won't be the most powerful gaming PCs, but for what I do gaming wise, they'll do fine.

OH MY GOD I WANT ONE OF THOSE 8 CORE PROCESSORS!

 

I've been looking at them for a while, and I want to try one just to see how fast it is. I just can't justify spending that much on a processor.

 

I've priced out three configurations for gaming PCs from 3 different websites. Tiger, New Egg, and Geeks. Cheapest built is from Geeks, coming in at the mid $500 range, and the most expensive being New Egg at around $650. They won't be the most powerful gaming PCs, but for what I do gaming wise, they'll do fine.

 

$500? I just bought a GTX660 TI for my wife's computer, that alone was $299+tax and shipping. I would have bought the 690 except that I've just spent a vast sum of money adding on to my house. You should get at least a GTX560 and build around that.

 

Those 8 core processors don't exactly shine unless you're running multiple applications designed to be multi-threaded. Most games don't take advantage of this yet that's why a dual core has been enough. 1 core runs the OS 1 core runs the game. You will see a big benefit in video transcoding on an 8 core, if you use something like Adobe's media encoder. It can and will use all that CPU.

Problem is building a machine. I use to be able to build machines at great prices. Now that technology has come down in price, like KrdShrk said, it's nearly impossible unless you have a wholesale connection to get the parts...

Today, some of the best video cards out there like the GeForce and such cost more than the machines you can build minus the vid card. The one I have cost me $3500 bux ordered but it was loaded. Today it would be a lot less. They don't sell the Area-51s anymore But the Auroras are still avail. BTW, it's not all about the processor. With not enough memory for instance, it's moot. It's a collective effort of all the right parts to make a screaming machine.

 

I have dual geforce cards as well as I just added an SSD drive as mentioned. They are not cheap, but I'm ed up with standard HD failures.

So now I have all the HDs in with the SSD for a total of about 3.5 terrabytes of storage. The SSD being my boot drive.

I don't regret this machine and with Dells financing deals, it cost me nada for their financing and paid it off in payments.

She screams and has no prob with today's graphics games and such. I orignally built it to do my graphic work as well as other things. It covers all grounds...