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CanadaSVT,Jul 3 2009, 12:02 AM Wrote:I have been looking for awhile.  Narrowed it down to this one.  If anyone knows of something better for the price or any info at all chime in.  Thanks.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/sea...0&sku=T71-15412
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I got a pair of refurbished Gateway laptops from them and pretty happy so far - stable and bullet proof ... but just a little thing they did at the store that pissed me off.

They offered a bunch of "free" software that I didn't really need or want (CA and it turned out to be garbage anyway) but what the hey - it was free, right?

Well ... what they do to make it free is to "reduce" the price of the laptop by the cost of the software ... roughly 150 bucks ... so far so good right?

Nope ... only the laptop is guaranteed and only for the amount you paid for it ... which in my case was now technically some 150 bucks less than I really paid for it due to the software reduction.

Fortunately I never had to use the return warranty (so far) but if I do I am immediately out the 150 bones.

Otherwise it seems hard to beat their prices.

Personally I'm still a little leary about Lenovo - I'm still old school enough to be suspicious of made-in-China electronics - probably just a vestige of an old bias because they seem to get good reviews.