HP Mediasmart LX195 for $220 after academic discount and Bing CB

[juxtapost03]

Do I need to know anything specific about shopping with HP?

Yes, customer should note the following when shopping with HP

1. The cashback percentage offered will apply to your entire order, before taxes and shipping costs.
2. Entering a coupon code at the payment page will void your cashback. Also, beginning 10/2009, the Friends & Family program, HP Academy program, and the Employee Purchase Program can no longer be combined with cashback.
3. Instant rebates and automatic free shipping on the HP Home & Office site will not void your cashback.
4. Partial returns of an order will be recalculated and the cashback will apply to the new total purchase amount before taxes and shipping charges.


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[desinerd]

I'm not a CB expert. I'm just telling what I saw. Attached is the email I got. The cashback was calculated on the price after academic discount.

[jcrud]

just fyi only one non-user serviceable drive bay with a 640gb drive makes it pointless for me

[kwadguy]

Will NOT be upgradable with the new server upgrade coming out later this year. This is a dead end product.

[juventusc]

cash back won't work. it will get cancel/denied.

[desinerd]

This is the "netbook" of home servers. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but it gets the work done for some.

Quote from jcrud : just fyi only one non-user serviceable drive bay with a 640gb drive makes it pointless for me

[kwadguy]

Quote from desinerd : This is the "netbook" of home servers. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but it gets the work done for some.

No, a netbook servers a specific function, as it's lighter and smaller (as well as cheaper) than it's bigger brothers, and it also gets better battery life, making it more portable.

This server is simply worse than the other ones in the mediaserver line. All negatives, no positives except, supposedly, price. But even there, the EX470 has been as little as $225 this past week. So it's lose, lose, lose all around for the LX195.

[desinerd]

I said "netbook of servers", not "netbook server". It was a metaphor

As far as EX470 deal is concerned - It's refurbished, not compatible with Macs, has 512mb RAM and 500 GB hdd.

You can upgrade storage on both though in case of LX195, you will need external drive.

Quote from kwadguy : No, a netbook servers a specific function, as it's lighter and smaller (as well as cheaper) than it's bigger brothers, and it also gets better battery life, making it more portable. This server is simply worse than the other ones in the mediaserver line. All negatives, no positives except, supposedly, price. But even there, the EX470 has been as little as $225 this past week. So it's lose, lose, lose all around for the LX195.

[kwadguy]

Quote from desinerd : I said "netbook of servers", not "netbook server". It was a metaphor As far as EX470 deal is concerned - It's refurbished, not compatible with Macs, has 512mb RAM and 500 GB hdd. You can upgrade storage on both though in case of LX195, you will need external drive.

Uh, yeah, I got the metaphor part. Which is why I pointed out that netbooks have advantages over full blown notebooks, but this server has no advantages over its big brothers--hence the point of my post that your metaphor is flawed.

In a month, HP is going to release the 3.0 update to the firmware for the EX470, which will give it all the features of the newer guys, including Mac compatibility. You can upgrade the memory in the EX470 easily to 2gb. And the 500Gb drive in the EX470 isn't a big deal since you can add three more drives that are as big as you want.

I don't know why you think it's worth defending the LX195. It's simply not a good choice or good deal.