Our favorite deal-a-day site, Woot.com has a pretty compelling notebook deal today. For $599, you can pick up a refurbished HP dv7. Remember, this deal is only good until 12am central time! Let’s check out the important specs (with + and – comments for what we think is good and bad on this notebook)
- Windows 7 Home Premium OS 64-bit (+ the latest version of Windows)
- 2.4GHz AMD Turion II M600 CPU (- not the latest CPU as offered on the newest dv7t models from HP)
- 4GB of RAM [upgradeable to 8GB] (+ 4GB of RAM is complimented by the 64-bit version of Windows that is included in this notebook)
- 17.3†screen with 1600×900 resolution (+ very spacious screen and high resolution will be good for Blu-ray and HD movie playback)
- ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics
- 500GB HDD ( +/- if you are a serious media junkie, 500GB might not be enough, otherwise, it will be plenty)
- Blu-ray and DVD R/RW drive with LightScribe (+ Blu-ray will let you play the latest HD movies from Blu-ray disks, and the drive still works with standard DVDs and CDs)
- Multi-card reader (+ will read SD, MMC, MS (Pro), and xD cards)
- HDMI port (+ will let you output the video to a TV with an HDMI port, and use the Blu-ray player with a larger TV)
- USB 2.0 x4
Head on over to Woot.com to check out a full list of specs, and to see this deal in more detail.