HIGHLY YMMV - OPEN BOX $1,343.99 @ Best Buy LINK IS FOR REGULAR CLEARANCE ONLY AND NOT THE OPEN BOX ITEM, SO PLEASE BE MINDFUL THAT OPEN BOX ITEMS POPS IN-&-OUT OF INVENTORY
I've been waiting for this to come back at this $1.3k price for an open box item and snatched it earlier when I saw one that's
supposed to be in excellent condition and available for shipping. I will definitely run it through rigorous testing upon receipt before deciding if I should keep it or not.
Happy Black Friday Hunting!
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/alie...Id=6543536 
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The excellent was brand new, never been opened
The good was in a ziplock bag... It was the former display. It had been on 24/7 for ~6mo and looked like it it was in a preschool.
I ended up buying a Asus p16 proart 4060 from best buy.com, "excellent". It appeared to be unused and came with everything as new.
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My Predator Helios order doesn't arrive till tomorrow. For the price, it and several other 4080/4090 deals I've seen are plenty good enough that I won't have (much) buyer's remorse when CES rolls around… except-
by early-late Summer next year we will definitely see a lot of newly-designed mobile 5070 or 5080 laptops with OLED screens hitting sales. And unlike the desktop space, laptop OEM's have a lot more control over pricing that is sensitive to consumer budgets. AMD is also expected to regain significant mobile market share versus Nvidia and will definitely be taking another bite out of Intel CPUs. Assuming ~10% higher prices from tarrifs, and depending on rtx 50 series mobile performance, I'd be damn happy to pay ~$2500 for an AMD x3d cache cpu, OLED screen, and mobile rtx 4080-ish performance (hopefully) with 16gb vram, but maybe that will still be reserved for top-tier). But the waiting game can go on forever so for now, these current deals are the cheap-and-cheerful option.
Next year, something like a new Lenovo 7 Pro, thick mostly-metal design, and an x3d chip would boost minimum frame rates and have durable build quality to be solid for an easy 4-5+ years of use. When something thereabouts shows up on sale next year, I'll quite possibly sell this thing unless there is aren't many AMD x3d mobile options (like now, which surprises me since it's been a full year past 7945x3d's release in the 17" rog strix scar).
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