{"id":11144,"date":"2014-07-19T06:36:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T10:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=11144"},"modified":"2014-07-19T06:40:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T10:40:49","slug":"laptop-deal-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=11144","title":{"rendered":"LAPTOP DEAL OF THE DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NOTE: SALE ENDS at 1 a.m. EDT 7\/20\/2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been searching for weeks for a laptop for Chelsea to take with her to college.  I had narrowed the search down to just a couple of processors: the Intel Core i7-4500 series, the Core i5-4200 family, or the AMD A10-5750.  With 8 &#8211; 12 GB of RAM these were running in the $700-$900 range.  I caught a coupon earlier this week and got <a href=\"http:\/\/configure.us.dell.com\/dellstore\/config.aspx?oc=fncwm2603baff&#038;cs=19&#038;dgvcode=ss&#038;c=US&#038;l=EN&#038;dgc=SS&#038;cid=277883&#038;lid=5242964&#038;acd=12309201992274941\">this Dell<\/a> for $630.  It had all of the features Chelsea wanted (no touch screen, backlit keyboard, at least 8 GB of RAM).  And then, this morning, my RSS feed for Woot! showed they&#8217;re selling a <em>very<\/em> similar refurbed HP machine for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woot.com\/offers\/hp-envy-15-6-amd-a10-touchsmart-laptop-6?utm_campaign=Amazon+Daily+-+20140719+-+Woot+-+hp-envy-15-6-amd-a10-touchsmart-laptop-6&#038;utm_source=Amazon&#038;utm_medium=email\">$485 shipped<\/a>!  The HP beats the Dell on memory (12 GB vs. the Dell&#8217;s 8GB) but loses out on wireless (&#8220;n&#8221; vs. the Dell&#8217;s &#8220;ac&#8221;).  The HP has a touch screen if you (or your kids) are into that.  I think it&#8217;s a waste on a laptop.  I have a touch screen Lenovo ultrabook upstairs.  I <em>never<\/em> use the Windows 8 tiles, but boot directly to the Win 7 look-alike desktop.  Touch is not needed if you&#8217;re not using the Microsoft &#8220;Modern Interface.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re willing to take a gamble on a refurb with a 90 day warranty, this laptop has the oomph (that&#8217;s a technical IT term) to take an HEK through their college years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: SALE ENDS at 1 a.m. EDT 7\/20\/2014 I&#8217;ve been searching for weeks for a laptop for Chelsea to take with her to college. I had narrowed the search down to just a couple of processors: the Intel Core i7-4500 series, the Core i5-4200 family, or the AMD A10-5750. With 8 &#8211; 12 GB of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11148,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11144\/revisions\/11148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}