Asus K55N Laptop: AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M (1.9GHz),15.6" (1366 x 768) LED, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, Radeon 7640G, HDMI, USB 3.0, 6-Cell, Win 7 Prem (Refurbished) $284.99 + Free Shipping

Quote from BinkyBill : You get 5% CB on any purchase. They don't even track if it is new vs refurb.

Awesome, in for 1. Its a great deal

Quote from Wafna : In for one. I'm wanting an AMD A series to play Skyrim on. I just returned a Gateway A8-4500M refurb because the Skyrim inventory, save, and NPC conversation menus would occasionally but suddenly go all wonky on me and make it impossible to play the game. But on low the frame rate blew away the ivy bridge i5 Lenovo that I was using before. I have an Acer with a Llano A6 that has the same problem as the Gateway that I should have returned rather than thinking I could fix the problem. I'm hoping that it is something with Acer products and the Asus won't suffer the same.

Did you try different gpu drivers from Acer/Gateway, and then from Amd website?
I believe the ones from Amd are updated more regularly, although depending on the manufacturer your system might not play nice with them (eg.Toshiba and Sony will simply not accept drivers from Amd website at all.)
Also, sometimes the latest drivers may present bugs on certain games, which are later resolved. Did you have graphical issues in other games too?
And did you check your ram sticks to be dual channel compatible? (same frequency and timings)

Quote from cheapengineer : Can you get 5% cb with shop discover? I seem to remember it excluding refurbs. I'm in 4 one, will try shop discover.

I thought cashback worked, looked again and it excludes laptops... still a good deal tho.
Copy paste from shopdiscover
"Offer not valid on laptops, desktops, hard drives, Geek Squad services, online photo center sales, digital downloads, long distance or internet sales, or mobile plans"

Does anyone know how good is Bestbuy refurbishment? (hope its not handled by Geeksquad, essentially just exterior cleaning)

Quote from 1093koney : I thought cashback worked, looked again and it excludes laptops... still a good deal tho. Copy paste from shopdiscover "Offer not valid on laptops, desktops, hard drives, Geek Squad services, online photo center sales, digital downloads, long distance or internet sales, or mobile plans"

I'll be. They don't usually have restrictions.

I'm not seeing the Radeon 7640G listed on the Asus pc page and it doesn't come up on a quick Google for that model. Can anyone confirm?

Quote from bch7 : I'm not seeing the Radeon 7640G listed on the Asus pc page and it doesn't come up on a quick Google for that model. Can anyone confirm?

that cpu comes with the graphics already in it

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-...884.0.html

so yah, the asus also has a 7640 too ^^

Quote from andrs08 : Did you try different gpu drivers from Acer/Gateway, and then from Amd website? I believe the ones from Amd are updated more regularly, although depending on the manufacturer your system might not play nice with them (eg.Toshiba and Sony will simply not accept drivers from Amd website at all.) Also, sometimes the latest drivers may present bugs on certain games, which are later resolved. Did you have graphical issues in other games too? And did you check your ram sticks to be dual channel compatible? (same frequency and timings)

I tried newer drivers once with the Gateway, and a few other things like a mod I found for menus. With the Acer I have tried multiple drivers and have even uninstalled and reinstalled every AMD driver on it, as well fresh reinstalls of the system. I was so exasperated by the Acer that I didn't try as hard with the Gateway when I had the same problem. I with one game I did have some weird graphic fuzziness with one of the later drivers that I used, but I tried another driver and that problem cleared up, but not the first. My RAM is a matched pair bought as a set. IIRC I had the same problem with the original 4 GB stick in place. Thanks for your help, though.

in for one..will try it out..hopefully no problems....

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searc...G72UAR%23A



HP - Pavilion 15.6" Refurbished Laptop - 4GB Memory - 640GB Hard Drive

This is a really cheap laptop for the kids.

Link is bad?

EDIT: Nevermind, it works now.

These come with 1x4gb DDR-1600. (or least my model of K55N, which had windows 8 but otherwise identical hardware specs, did). Make sure you add another stick if you plan to game with this. Like all AMD APU systems memory bandwidth determines framerates, so you need two sticks of RAM to get into two channel mode if you want the max framerates this is capable of.

Nice find - here are the specs:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/w...ct=5337003

Quote from radia : This is a really cheap laptop for the kids.

Darn it...I was right about to purchase this laptop, but I guess I won't since I am a grownup.