expired HP Laptop Sandy Bridge Celeron with HD2000 IGP, 2GB RAM, 320GB HD, 15.6" $288 - $19 Delivery

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HP Laptop Sandy Bridge Celeron with HD2000 IGP, 2GB RAM, 320GB HD, 15.6" $288 - $19 Delivery
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vid_ghost on 30/04/2012 - 15:50 www.centrecom.com.au (2495 clicks)

Cheapest full sized desktop replacement laptop i could find.. everything else at that price was slow ass Atom CPU junk with 10" screens

CPU info here … http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Celeron-B815-Notebook-Pro...

ITS a Celeron Sandy Bridge based CPU… FYI Sandy Bridge is almost at its END OF LIFE! being replaced by Ivy Bridge from now on.. so its kinda OLD tech now days.

FREE - Pickup! for those who want to avoid the delivery cost

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      • +18 votes
        Keef on 30/04/2012 - 15:59

        So many bridges to cross..Will we ever reach our destination?

        • +2 votes
          highdealer on 30/04/2012 - 17:47

          We do not want to reach our final destination

        • +3 votes
          krisspy on 30/04/2012 - 18:16

          Yes. Tacoma Narrows Bridge would be intel's last codename for cpus.

  • +5 votes
    tantryl on 30/04/2012 - 15:59

    Great value for a basic home/work PC. Good for internet & word processing, even some music and vid watching. Can't argue with it.

  • +2 votes
    scubacoles on 30/04/2012 - 16:07

    Disposable Laptops have arrived!
    It's tempting to buy just so I can say I bought a brand new laptop for $300!

    • +6 votes
      vid_ghost on 30/04/2012 - 16:09

      Comes with a full blown COPY of windows 7 ($99)…how do they make money on these things!

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      wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 21:25

      Use it once and throw it away at this price!

  • +2 votes
    batrarobin on 30/04/2012 - 16:11

    Celeron…big no no for me…I would personally spend some more to buy at least an i3.

    • +2 votes
      octagonalman on 30/04/2012 - 16:22

      The CPU isn't too far off an ultrabook i3…
      http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i3-2367M-Notebook-Pr...

    • +1 vote
      wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 16:58

      Celeron has a bad name but the current gen is pretty good.

    • +2 votes
      garratt torlesse on 30/04/2012 - 17:16

      Celeron's just branding these days, its a Sandy and is more than enough for most users.

      My mum's still happily using a TurionX2, can browser the web, can use word, can skype. What else do you need.

      Hell its less than 300 bucks.

      • +1 vote
        wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 17:20

        I consider myself a computer enthusiast/power user and have been using a modest Core2Duo 2.26ghz machine for 4 years now, which is running fine for my needs and no problems or inclination to replace for some time. All the money I have saved on upgrading has allowed me to buy ancillary devices such as smart phones, tablets, games console, etc.

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          voolish on 30/04/2012 - 19:46

          Maybe just replace your power supply. Those things can use heaps of power unnecessarily the older they get. I think it's something like 10% compounding wastage a year.

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          wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 21:00

          Yes, the way power bills are soaring this is a good idea. My PSU was changed 2 years ago after it exploded but admittedly I got the cheapest unit at the time, not the most power efficient :P

  • +1 vote
    batrarobin on 30/04/2012 - 16:14

    You get a decent i3 for about 400-450 from Dell DFO.

    • +6 votes
      CarbonTwelve on 30/04/2012 - 16:23

      Yeah, but an i3 would make bugger all difference for most people, meanwhile this is 25-30% cheaper.

  • +6 votes
    Mikeshashimi on 30/04/2012 - 16:22

    It's so cheap, who cares if tech is old. Your 'ivy bridge' will be considered old by the time you finish reading my comment #justseriouslyjoking

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    MrZ on 30/04/2012 - 16:24

    $319.90 on eBay with the extra 2GB RAM upgrade included. Add the RAM to this deal and you come to $317. So it's $2.90 off basically.

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    rps on 30/04/2012 - 16:24

    Google is not kind to this machine. I agree with most pay a few more and get heaps better machine

    • +8 votes
      opt on 30/04/2012 - 16:53

      Don't let the Celeron badge fool you, this specific CPU is much better than any Atom out there. On synthetic CPU benchmarks it scores about 2x more than a 2.13Ghz Atom and about 3x more than a regular 1.6 dual core Atom. It is even faster than fist gen Core 2 Duo 2.0+ GHz chips, which IMO are more than capable of handling your day-to-day computing tasks even now.

      Check Passmark CPU Mark benchmark scores

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        wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 17:00

        Agreed!

        • +2 votes
          grab_ur_freebies on 30/04/2012 - 17:12

          No longer are we in the days when celeron was side by side with p2/3s. I guess some ppl still cling to the rep it gained as a budget cpu back then when their perf were beyond poor…

          Celeron is not too shabby these days. Still budget tho! :-)

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          wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 17:24

          I used to tease my friend because his family could only afford a Celeron PC when everyone else was running P3/4s. Nowadays, the gap has closed considerably between the budget Celeron processors and the entry level "flagship" Intel processors(pre :pentium, currently :i3/5/7). These days, I would absolutely use a Celeron if it fulfilled my computing requirements.

      • +2 votes
        MrZ on 30/04/2012 - 17:24

        People's memory must be really bad if they have negative recollections of Celeron. Celeron had a great reputation shortly after it came out. Covington was crap because it had no L2, but Mendocino (300A and 333) were almost as fast the Pentium 2 of the era, at about half the price. They also had full-speed on die L2, whereas the P2 at the time had half-speed L2.

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          wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 17:26

          It depends on the generation. So they started good, then began to suck and now they are good again. All is right with the world for budget computing:)

  • +1 vote
    grog on 30/04/2012 - 16:59

    $288 with free delivery would be a goer

    • +1 vote
      wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 17:01

      So your gonna miss it over $19? maybe they have pickup?

  • +2 votes
    grog on 30/04/2012 - 17:20

    My problem is that i can turn left.. walk for 10 minutes, be on the beach then start swimming towards africa directly.

    Google maps reckons the hawthorn store about 3444km to the right of me.

    Retailers in the eastern states reckon "wa" means "wait awhile"

    $288 delivered would be a bargain

    cheers and thank you anyway,

    •  
      wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 17:28

      Sorry to hear that you guys are getting a raw deal out in poor, old WA. I guess you ain't all rich miners and millionaires despite the stereotype.

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    scrimshaw on 30/04/2012 - 17:20

    This is cheap and is much better value compared to the current crop of AMD C-50 and AMD E-300 series notebooks that they sell at Dickies for around $300.

    According to Notebookcheck, this Celeron is about 2x faster than an AMD E450 (at Cinebench).

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      grab_ur_freebies on 30/04/2012 - 17:25

      I pity da fool who buys one of those amds (netbook class cpu in notebook shell)…

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        wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 17:29

        sub-optimal specs in a bloated shell :P

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    grab_ur_freebies on 30/04/2012 - 17:23

    This is $32 cheaper after postage than orangeit $339. Saves you some dough for something else.

    • +1 vote
      wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 17:29

      Like pizza maybe?

      •  
        grab_ur_freebies on 30/04/2012 - 17:33

        Chips as topping anyone?

        • +1 vote
          altomic on 30/04/2012 - 20:00

          and using voucher code Ty4GH you can get a free 1.25ltr of coke.

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    blahman on 30/04/2012 - 17:31

    Now you post this deal! I just bought one of those C-60 netbooks for $240. Would have gone with this one even if just for bigger screen!

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    justtoreply on 30/04/2012 - 17:34

    How do todays celerons compare to ones from laptops two years ago?

    My ex's laptop had one. It took 3 minutes to load puzzle quest. Which is a 2D game with assumedly minimum sys requirements. Was so painful to use I couldn't hack it.

    • +2 votes
      scrimshaw on 30/04/2012 - 17:39

      Shouldn't be a problem for this CPU. It might lag a little due to the somewhat slow integrated graphics.

    • +1 vote
      grab_ur_freebies on 30/04/2012 - 17:48

      I know what you mean by 'painful'. About 3yrs ago my ol' man bought a celeron laptop for around $450 & brought it home & got me to set things up (remove bloatware), while using it was so slow I wanted to literally pull a hissy fit…also the preloaded vista on it did not help! We returned it to get a top C2D model at the time for a little more.

      But to answer ur question: I think it would be alright for productivity apps & some mid res photoshop.

    • +1 vote
      tantryl on 30/04/2012 - 17:54

      A common problem from a few years back was Vista notebooks with 1GB or less RAM. In which absolutely everything was slow as hell, as Vista needed at least 1GB all to itself, let alone for other programs.

      If you can tell us the model of the notebook and/or it's CPU we could tell you more.

      •  
        MrZ on 30/04/2012 - 17:58

        Yup, I blame Vista, 100%. Should have wiped it and installed XP. XP has no problem even on a Pentium III CPU, and 1GB RAM. Very good OS.

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        justtoreply on 30/04/2012 - 18:21

        T1600 CPU I think.

        I upgraded the ram in it. I think she had 3 or 4gb in the end. It was a vista machine. Felt much faster for the extra ram, but still too painful for me.

        I un-bloated the manufacturer apps as well. Can't recall if that was a full windows re-install or just an uninstall of junk.

        •  
          tantryl on 30/04/2012 - 18:29

          Should have been OK with a T1600. Not fast or anything, but it wouldn't cause a flash game to take ages to load. A more likely culprit is the HDD.

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          justtoreply on 30/04/2012 - 18:32

          I'm looking at notebookcheck… seems it's +25% cpu.

          But her T1600 feels notably slower than my SU7300 (2gb, win7, 5400rpm hdd) which is why I thought it was the CPU

          Not convinced it's the HDD but its possible. My su7300 had a mechanical hdd at the time, and I've upgraded mine to an SSD.. which has made it faster but nowhere near as fast as upgrading my i3 with an SSD. So presumably the SSD flicked the bottleneck back to the CPU.

          Could just be the OS?

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          tantryl on 30/04/2012 - 18:35

          Yeah, it's definitely odd. Maybe not the HDD. It's something you'd have to test the balls off of.

          A switch to XP or 7 could fix it too. Or simply a reinstall of Vista. We're really just wildly hypothesing here :P

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      garratt torlesse on 30/04/2012 - 18:04

      Any chance that you might know which Celeron? 2 years ago might be the tailend of the Core or Core 2 based Celerons, which shouldn't have been that bad. I had a CULV based Celeron U2300 which was a capable CPU and did all the basics fairly well, didn't do any gaming on it though. Also, how much ram did you have, sometimes the bottle neck isn't with the CPU but ram, hdd and graphics. For a two year old budget system, I am guessing 1GB was probably the norm, and with Vista and the mandatory bloatware, 1GB is not where near enough.

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        justtoreply on 30/04/2012 - 18:23

        See my new reply above :)

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    bargainjargon on 30/04/2012 - 17:53

    Not bad. I might have picked one up if I haven't just bought a laptop.

  • +1 vote
    bargdebarg on 30/04/2012 - 18:20

    reads comments
    …
    don't you people have anything better to do???
    good deal.

    • +5 votes
      tantryl on 30/04/2012 - 18:30

      I like computers. I like talking about computers. Do I have better things to do? Technically, yes. Things I'd prefer to be doing? No, not really :P

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    turbodude on 30/04/2012 - 18:31

    Is Windows Media Center (record from TV tuner etc) included in this version of Windows(Home Premium). Seems to suggest Yes here http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/products/compare but I am sure when I checked a year or 2 ago that the low end Win7 versions did not have it. Has something changed?
    What are people thoughts on using this as a media center PC connected via HDMI

    •  
      vid_ghost on 30/04/2012 - 18:35

      yes Windows Media Center comes free with Windows 7 Home Premium

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    highdealer on 30/04/2012 - 18:36

    perfect mother day gift
    But no store in NSW to pick up

  •  
    baronVoNGotha on 30/04/2012 - 18:45

    no excuse not to own a laptop

  •  
    gusta7 on 30/04/2012 - 18:47

    SOLD OUT

    • +2 votes
      vid_ghost on 30/04/2012 - 19:06

      OZ Bargained lol

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    davidl2 on 30/04/2012 - 20:44

    do you guys think it is easily upgrade to more powerful CPU such as:
    Intel Core i7 2630QM (2GHz/Mobile) or
    Intel Core i5 2520M (2.5GHz/Mobile) in the future?

    they uses same PGA988 socket?

    •  
      matt_will_fix_it on 30/04/2012 - 20:53

      The average user wouldn't notice any difference…

      Why not put a SSD in there… that will see the biggest performance boost.

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        davidl2 on 30/04/2012 - 21:06

        the question is whether it is upgradable?
        was thinking of changing the CPU when/if I feel it's too slow :P

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          CarbonTwelve on 01/05/2012 - 12:15

          It might be possible, but it's not something I'd rely on.

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    wolfenator87 on 30/04/2012 - 21:27

    Hot damn, sold out very quickly. I'm glad I was able to resist the temptation to buy one purely based on price when I don't need it. Hope that you guys who wanted it got in quick. The silent vultures ripped this deal apart!

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    FOX on 30/04/2012 - 22:34

    Does anyone know if I can claim GST back if travelling overseas based on the total which is above $300? So in short, can I claim GST on the shipping cost?

    •  
      ccrap on 30/04/2012 - 23:46

      Pretty sure the answer is no. Ask centrecom to chuck in another 2gb ram to bring it just over 300 so you can claim it then. They are pretty good at amendin orders and issuing new invoices.

    •  
      Michegianni on 01/05/2012 - 10:12

      No, but you can buy something else to bring your total up to $300 like a mouse or ram upgrade or whatever and then you can claim your ~$28 back.

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    khowjon on 30/04/2012 - 23:07

    All is not lost guys,(and girls), the HP 630 (B2Y20PA) with the faster i3 processor and 500 gb hdd is still available for $399; here http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/b2y20pa-b2y20pa-p-57088.... …. be quick!

    •  
      highdealer on 30/04/2012 - 23:14

      this is hardly a bargain

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    francis.tks on 30/04/2012 - 23:22

    My HP died on me after 1 year 1 month =(!

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      francis.tks on 30/04/2012 - 23:22

      Didn't get an extended warranty.

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        vid_ghost on 01/05/2012 - 10:16

        older HP's were not very good QTY .. the new 32nm Sandy bridge ones with Sandy bridge intel motherboards run much cooler and should last much longer

    • +1 vote
      wolfenator87 on 01/05/2012 - 19:49

      13 months and dead. You should buy yourself a lottery ticket!

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