Asus A53E-IS51 15.6" Notebook: Intel Core i5-2450m 2.5GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Upgradable to Win 8 Pro) $369.99 + Free Shipping (Ebay Daily Deal)

Quote from diamondjoker5 : Got the BB 14inch $250 laptop instead. Both are good basic laptops.

The two laptops you mentioned do not compare at all. The laptop in this deal is Core I 5. Very fast when compared to the bestbuy deal. in my opinion this deal is the best I have seen this year. Cant imagine why this thread is not getting much attention.

Dead, damn this was a very nice deal. That's it, no more helping grandma if I'm gonna miss deals.

I woulda bought 2!

Quote from readyn : It is a good deal. If you are comfortable buying from ebay

I buy everything on ebay... I don't know why people don't trust it.

Quote from ohmyyikes : I'm no tech person, but how is this laptop compared to all the others that are out for BF?

As a tech person, I think this is a wonderful deal. ASUS has been coming up in the rankings in the past couple of years in quality and performance. This laptop is no exception to that rule. However, don't expect it to perform awesome if you play up to date games on it. They will either not run at all or perform so slow, you'll wish you never spent the time to even install the game. I think the video card is the only draw back, but if your not going to play games on it, then "Game on!".

Quote from Fletch113 : Dead, damn this was a very nice deal. That's it, no more helping grandma if I'm gonna miss deals. I woulda bought 2!

I was helping the kids with breakfast and turning on charlie brown thanksgiving so I could look at this for real - D@MN! To boot it was going to be for them...

Quote from ohmyyikes : Problem is the size for me, I'm using XPS 13 dell, but this lappy is 15.6", wanted something around 13". Sounds like a tempting deal.

There is leaks Adorama is having some hot deals on 13" ultrabooks tomorrow on ebay as as well

Ugh that's what I get for going to bed at 2 am - I think I've missed every laptop deal

Turns out that the person I bought this for isn't interested and wants an ultrabook instead. Anybody in the Richmond, VA or Philadelphia, PA area interested? I'll be making the drive from one to the other in a week or so. Trying to show some SD love before putting it up on CL or ebay. Pm me.

Great deal!
But OOS by now

Got my shipping notice

Quote from ppo22 : The two laptops you mentioned do not compare at all. The laptop in this deal is Core I 5. Very fast when compared to the bestbuy deal. in my opinion this deal is the best I have seen this year. Cant imagine why this thread is not getting much attention.

I got the asus BB for the simple fact that it was the cheapest not crappy laptop for basic entry level computing. It doesnt have the ridiculously slow 1.4 amd e- cpus, or intel celerons. With the 2.4 ghz pentium dual core you can get at least something done,

Dont get me wrong, the 369$ deal for the asus is not a bad deal at all. i5 is a good processor and def worth it but its not like we had similar deal out there. Over the summer on newegg i bought an acer for $379 with same exact specs, 4gb, 500gb, 15.6 , ati 7000 onboard card (which can actually run some games too) and an nice quad core amd cpu. While the i5 is still slightly faster and more power efficient than the a6 quad core cpu (does up to 2.4ghz with turbo clock) on the acer, its not like its too far apart. The prices are similar too. But since intels are usually more expensive, the deal relative to the cpu is a good deal. I think the intel site listed the i5 here by itself for a $220 retail price. So cpu here is worth 2/3 of the laptop.

Anyone have any reflections on the laptop?

did not find the bluetooth and backlit keyboard either...thanks all.

Quote from DJ3xclusive : http://www.ebay.com/itm/Asus-A53E...0831240914

deleted