This is one of those Best Buy Open-Box deal that is probably very YMMV.
Best Buy currently has the open-box MSI Stealth GS77 12ue-046 laptop for as low as $529.99 (for Open-Box - Fair condition). I don't follow Laptop price too closely, but a quick search on Slickdeals showed that this price is among the lowest price for a laptop that comes with a RTX 3060.
I did some quick research and it seems like the TDP for the RTX 3060 is 105W. Main complain about the laptop is the screen (45% ntsc and I haven't found any info on nits yet). Inside the laptop, there are 2 memory slots and 2 M.2 slot for SSD.
- Windows 11 Home (MSI recommends Windows 11 Pro for business.)
- Intel® Core™ i7-12700H 1.7GHz
- 17.3" Thin Bezel FHD, IPS-Level 144Hz, 45% NTSC
- NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3060 Laptop GPU 6GB GDDR6
- 16GB (8G*2) DDR5 4800MHz
- 1TB NVMe SSD Gen4x4
- Killer LAN E3100G
- Killer WiFi 6E AX1675 (2x2)
- New Cooler Boost 5 with 0.1mm fan blade
- 6x Speaker audio design by Dynaudio sound system
- 99.9Whr Battery Capacity
- Per-Key RGB gaming keyboard by SteelSeries
- MSI Center with exclusive gaming mode
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https://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-...Id=6496178
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It depends.on the geeksquad person checking it in. I bought a windows pro earlier this year in fair condition. It had one little scratch and came with the charger. Another store had more scratches and no charger 🤦🏾 ♂️
Not that you'd know specifics but generally is it a specific store return?
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Intel is always the superior CPU
Looks like someone picked up the satisfactory one already I only see the fair one at sb
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus...Id=64946
The excellent look brand new with box. no major scratches. Battery on optimized settings from Asus gave me 9.5hours
The fair condition looked brand new with 1 minor scratch under the laptop. Everything else looked brand new. No box. Came with charger. Battery on optimized settings from Asus gave me 9.2 hours.
I ran both laptops on same settings with same software installed out of the box. Went from 100% to 0%.
I'm pretty satisfied with the Fair condition save $100ish with a little less battery life and a minor scratch under the laptop.
Side note.
When this deal was first posted on SD it was on sale for $900. Looks like its $850 now. The open box prices look like they went up a little bit since I bought the open box fair condition for $756.99.
https://slickdeals.net/f/16752776-asus-rog-13-4-touchscreen-gaming-laptop-amd-ryzen-9-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3050-ti-v4g-graphics-1tb-ssd-off-black-899-99
Got a m1 mba scratch and dent. Had 1 small scratch on the black part of the screen and 2 battery cycles