HOT Pre-Black Friday Laptop deal: Samsung NP355E5C-A01US (15.6", AMD E2-1800, 4GB RAM, 500GB) Windows 8 Laptop $250 AC @ Staples IN-STORE ONLY!

Quote from SolomonChen89 : that's the thing. I already know I'm not going to make the doorbuster. the ones I'm looking at are around that price with almost the same specs bigger screen, bigger hard drive, $20 cheaper (if I can apply the staples coupon) http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus-...8810957150

But, if you are considering this laptop, then surely, you can go one lower and get the x401A from either sears or kmart? It has a 2-GB ram but is priced at $220. You can easily upgrade ram to 6GB by buying one stick for less than 10$. the B830 celeron processor still trounces the E2-1800 and it's not as if E2 comes with great graphics performance to make up for its lack of cpu horsepower either

Holy smokes. CPU Comp 811? My first generation i3 is around 2000. I think I'll pass(mark) on this...

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.p...2-1800+APU

DO NOT assume that this will run Netflix. Please do your research. The E2-1800 is the same performance as the E-450 (+/- a couple %), and the E-450 definitely couldn't play Netflix HD as of last year (haven't been following closely), and they won't be able to until Netflix gets proper hardware acceleration. If you 100% definitely want Netflix 1080p playback, get a Celeron laptop- the CPU has enough horsepower to play Netflix, or any 1080p with the CPU, and its able to HW accelerate 1080p video as well. E-450 can indeed do HW acceleration for 1080p.. but again, its no use until Netflix properly supports HWA.

Otherwise though, it gets good battery life, so that's a plus. Basically, consider it a 15" netbook- it'll do any 1080p HW accelerated video, office programs, Skype (I'm assuming it has a webcam), etc. I personally wouldn't use one as a college student, as there's a RAM limit (4GB, right? - not enough if that's the case), and the CPU just isn't fast enough to make it feel snappy, even with a SSD. (OT Rant- idiots that think an SSD can make a netbook fast.. doesn't work that way. I have an SSD and my 2.1ghz i3, Samsung 830,and 8GB RAM feel sluggish on occasion when I have it capped at 800mhz max. Even with max at 1.2ghz, yes, its pretty snappy. 1.6 or 2.1, wicked fast.)

Quote from bsirk : But, if you are considering this laptop, then surely, you can go one lower and get the x401A from either sears or kmart? It has a 2-GB ram but is priced at $220. You can easily upgrade ram to 6GB by buying one stick for less than 10$. the B830 celeron processor still trounces the E2-1800 and it's not as if E2 comes with great graphics performance to make up for its lack of cpu horsepower either

link?

I dont understand why everyone is hating on this deal, its a 250$ laptop, whens the last time you got a brand new one for that price from a direct retail store?

Just posted a HOTTER deal on a much better laptop for only $50 more. Here's the link to the thread:
http://slickdeals.net/f/5541592-H...p=55021874

Quote from robinski_ : the performance is in line with intel atom http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

There are original Core Duos that would outperform this CPU so I don't know what the OP is smoking.

Quote from UkrainianOne : I dont understand why everyone is hating on this deal, its a 250$ laptop, whens the last time you got a brand new one for that price from a direct retail store?

I bought a laptop from newegg for $320 and there weren't taxes as opposed to staples so the difference was something like $50 for a laptop that'll be useful *long* after this thing can't even load common websites without chugging. This CPU is useless.

Quote from SolomonChen89 : link?

I'm sorry I couldnt find a direct link, but it is listed in both sears and kmart blackfriday ads. You can find the total list here in this excel sheet though

http://slickdeals.net/forums/atta...1353184833

Quote from UkrainianOne : I dont understand why everyone is hating on this deal, its a 250$ laptop, whens the last time you got a brand new one for that price from a direct retail store?

Look in this thread to find better for the same price.
The Folks who TD like me find that most folks won't need the DVD.
320GB is Huge for 99% of the folks.
You can make the 2GB a 4GB system for $10 if you find you need it.

If you find the vastly weaker Netbook Processor does not fly you are stuck.
You are not STUCK with anything on the others.

If it was not for other sales, this would be an OK deal.
But not in comparison.

But the Celeron is about as Fast as my 5yr old laptop which is actually still not too bad for normal use.

The Celeron blows the doors off the E2-1800, which just takes it too low on the performance chart for me to be comfortable with it.

I jumped on this deal haha. non-intel vga was big factor for me.. i play league of legends and this shouldnt have any problem running it at low res with low settings!

got 2 of them today! the coupon does work!