Toshiba Satellite S50-abt2n22 Laptop - Newest I7 - On Sale $599

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Says for today only, but currently on the Toshiba website directly, you can get a Toshiba Satellite with i7-4700MQ processor, 500Gb drive, 4Gb memory (probably need to add here) for $599 shipped, which is a great price for a good i7 laptop.

You can add options (custom buildable). I would buy it as is (unless you needed the separate video card for heavy video work) and pick up another 4-8Gb (4Gb about $37) of memory from Newegg.com or Crucial.com (the Toshiba price is too high). Maybe the back-lit keyboard would be beneficial.

See: http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c...&utm_medium=feeds&CA_6C15C=400007100000001677


.. oh and a free carrying case.



***** UPDATE ***** Deal over.
 
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** UPDATE **

Down to $549.99 with coupon code "TDYS50795" ...
 
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That's OK .. I'm a Dell laptop guy, but $550 for a 4th gen i7 is pretty good. I just bought a 3rd gen i5 Dell Latitude for $500.
 
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Another Acer fan here I own 5 of them including a tablet.
 
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I use two 17" toshibas for DJing. They are the older i3, with 4 GB ram and 500 GB hard drives. Got them on close out from neww egg 13 months ago for $329.00 each. I had to replace one battery, 2 months after I bought them but it was under warranty. I received the battery 2 days after I ordered it with a box and label to return the bad one.

My first Toshiba went over 5 years and 2 deployments, was still working when I tossed it as it was way outdated. My daughter has a i5 Toshiba and she loves it. I can't tell you how many Dells and HPs my family, my work and the Army, when I was in, went through that didn't last 2 years. I have worked at my current job for almost 5 years, I am on my 3rd Dell, two laptops and a current desk top. Laptops never left the office, the second laptop was on its third harddrive in two years when we tossed it. These were ordered for the business via the Dell business support center.
 
If you can buy the "business" class laptops, they tend to have parts that have better lifespans than the consumer class.

For HP, consumer class laptops are Pavilion, Envy and Essential Home. Business class are ProBook and EliteBook.
For Dell, consumer class are Inspiron, business class are Latitude.

The other brands may have similar setups. The business class ones have slightly different features .. less of the fancy audio, but usually have docking ports, easily replaceable and extended batteries and tend to use a better grade of components. If your business is buying locally from say Staples. OfficeMax or Walmart, you are getting consumer class. The business ones tend to cost about $100-$200 more for a similar makeup are are usually only available from the manufacturer or high tier dealers..
 
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My business is buying from Dell direct, so was the Army. All of the Dells I have had issues with were Latitudes and most of the issues I saw were hard drives. I don't know who they get the hard drives from, but they could do better. My wifes latitude laptop, has left the house less than a dozen times and is treated like a princess, it is now on its third hard drive in 5 years, I custom ordered it from Dell, because of her picture, video and school needs. She just started her 32 year in the classroom, all her families get a DVD at the end of the year of what they did, hundreds of pictures.

I had not lost complete faith in Dell till I started my current job, after the first Latitude died and they replaced it and the second hardrive failure on the replacement Latitude, I went with a desktop, hopefully it will last much longer.

I have had wonderfull luck with basic off the shelf toshibas, one battery failure and the family has owned a total of 5 now. They must start with better components than dell puts in thier business systems.
 
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I guess my experience has been good. The HPs I had for 15 years and the Dells for 5 have been good, except for a video cable issue on a brand new Dell model that it took two quick trips to fix but has been rock solid since. Never had a hard drive issue.
 
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FWIW I have had / been assigned all of them. Panasonic Toughbook, Dell, Toshiba, Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, IBM, Sony, and I was a hard-core Windows guy (one of my professors at DeVry is probably the world's best-known expert on Intel microprocessors outside on Intel) all the way up until I had two failures during crucial moments last season. Some of the best hardware designers in the world are a menace to society behind a keyboard. (See any HP Printer Software)

When I had time to screw with all of the hardware/software issues, it was fun. Now I just want the damn thing to work, reliably, and all of the time. Last Summer I took the dive, mortgaged the house and bought a MacBook Pro with a 1TB hard drive. Haven't had an issue since. No more external hard drives (except for backup, which is stupid easy with Time Machine), no more driver issues, no more software freeze-ups.

I completely understand that you can buy 6-7 of the OP's subject matter for every MacBook Pro. I chose to put reliability over redundancy, and I went with Apple. Don't regret it for a second. I use an iPad for a secondary source, and it is always there just in case something would ever happen. Guess what? The playlists stay synced, and life is good. No more worries about computer issues for me.
 
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I have no issues with Apple (I have an iPad/iPod/iPhone) and would love to consider them, but the closed nature of the environment, while keeping many things simple, make others a tad more difficult. And I am willing to trade an 1/8" more thickness to shave $600 off the price.

I don't need retina displays .. a 15" i7 with a 500Gb disc and 4Gb memory (basically what I had listed above) shouldn't be $1200 more (though it did have the separate video card which would have cost another $75). A $300 difference .. fine, but over $1000 .. for a similar set of specs (to be fair the apple was 1440x900 vs 1336x768, but not night and day different).

I really want to add an apple to the stable, but just can't pragmatically justify it.
 
When I bought mine - I opted for the MBP without the Retina / SSD - I don't need them. Saved some coin.
 
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When I bought mine - I opted for the MBP without the Retina / SSD - I don't need them. Saved some coin.
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That $1799 price I looked up was WITHOUT either .. these were the specs (15" model):
  • 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz
  • 4GB 1600MHz memory
  • 500GB 5400-rpm hard drive1
  • Intel HD Graphics 4000
  • NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 512MB of GDDR5 memory
If I added a similar card to the Toshiba, it would have been $625. That's a might big difference for an aluminum shell.
 
I don't think mine cost that much. As to the 'shell' comment, there's a reason that the MBP is the 'best Windows machine' - and I highly doubt it has to do with the shell.

With that said, on the 'normal' laptop side of the house, I prefer Toshiba.
 
Like I said .. would love to have one, but Apple has decided to price based on their stratification .. you can only go lower by dropping to a 13" screen or a MB Air. No more of the white/black, reasonably priced units.

$1200 difference for the same guts is tough to swallow .. not that I might not do it at some point.
 
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