We don’t normally concern ourselves with what big retail stores put on sale every week–after all, they spend suitable money to advertise their wares, they certainly don’t need our help.

But while flipping through the Sunday sales circulars in the New York Times, we spotted the recently reviewed Gateway P-7811FX laptop in the Best Buy ad. We loved the latest version on Gateway’s bargain-priced gaming rig

abundant to give it an Editors’ Choice award–but we did grouse that at $1,450, it was about $100 more than previous versions.

For that week, at least, the P-7811FX is on sale for $1,249, which is a great deal for an Intel P8400 CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 1,920×1,200 17-inch display, and Nvidia’s new GeForce 9800 graphics card.

The ad even promises a free […]

Orginal post by Dan Ackerman