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HP DV6-3131TX i5-460 ATI5650 500GB HDD 4GB Bluetooth HDMI $799 DSE (Instore Nationwide)

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HP DV6-3131TX i5-460 ATI5650 500GB HDD 4GB Bluetooth HDMI $799 DSE (Instore Nationwide)
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Hirokuro on 15/01/2011 - 20:36 dicksmith.com.au (1032 clicks)
Last edited 16/01/2011 - 22:09 by 2 other users

This is a great deal for those heading back to University in 2 weeks or those who cannot wait for Sandy bridge to arrive in AU late Feb (which will be expensive like anything new once released).

RRP: $1299
Price: $759 price match DSE $799.

http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XC8892/hp-pavilion-dv6-3131t…

Cheapest on staticice is $1150:
http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=dv6-3131TX&spos…

Specs:

  • CPU: Intel Core i5-460M
  • Processor: 2.53GHz
  • RAM: 4GB DDR3
  • Hard Drive: 500GB 7200RPM
  • Screen Size: 15.6" 1366x768p
  • Optical drive: SuperMulti DVD burner with Lightscribe
  • Graphics: 1GB ATI5650 dedicated + Intel HD (Switchable)
  • Connectivity: Wireless N & Bluetooth & Gigabyte Ethernet 10/100/1000
  • WebCam: Yes
  • Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium
  • Manufacturer's Warranty: 1 Year
  • I/O: 4x USB 2.0, 1x E-Sata, 1x VGA, 1x HDMI, 1x 5in1 Card Reader

MOD: Price matching ISNT a deal, replace url and title to original deal.

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  • medium_tight on 15/01/2011 - 20:44
    +1

    Nice spec, delicious price, ozbargain!

    • Hirokuro on 15/01/2011 - 20:45

      Bought one today. My local OW had 10 instock.

      The only thing wrong (as far as I can tell) is the poor screen (the resolution is fine, it's just the screen quality itself) and trackpad.

      However, in terms of heat ventilation it's definitely an improvement over the older 2nd Gen glossy black DV6's.
      I'm hitting about 29-31'C and it's summer!! Compare this to 50-55'C on the 2nd DV6 generation.

      • MrGareth on 15/01/2011 - 20:59

        Ooooh so they've fixed them? I've always been told to stay away from HP laptops because they overheat :(

        • Hirokuro on 15/01/2011 - 21:07

          Only the heating issue has been (finally!) fixed.

          The only things that may put you off this model are:

          Screen quality - gets better once you calibrate it but still not great (a $500 15.6" e machine has a better screen than this :/).
          Touchpad - you get used to it as time goes on though…
          Lack of number pad
          Awkward shortcut keys on the left side causes misjudgment whilst touch typing —> constant mistakes - again you get used to it as time goes on.

        • issh on 16/01/2011 - 16:14

          haha lol
          i have a DV6-3042tx
          and i think the only reason why mine overheats is due to the Core i7 being there
          mine idles at 60-70 and maxes at 95(stress test)
          i use netbook now around 46

      • iceagepig on 17/01/2011 - 07:59
        -1

        is there any recovery disk or any manual inside the small black box in the package? all i have is 2 piece of paper

        • Dean-o on 17/01/2011 - 23:48

          Don't know why you got a neg for that comment… but no, very few computers have come with recovery discs over the past 5 years or so. You can create your own using HP's Recovery Media Creation software. Should take 3 or so blank DVD's I think.

          No "book style" manual either. Jump on the HP website if there's a key or spec you're not sure about otherwise everything else would be a query regarding the OS not the actual laptop so check the microsoft website for FAQ's.

  • p3t0r on 15/01/2011 - 21:13

    Fantastic price! We picked one up for $950 from HN a couple of weeks ago! We rate the laptop!

    • muzzamo on 17/01/2011 - 11:15

      do harvey norman still offer to refund the difference if you find somewhere cheaper within a few weeks?

      Also see if your credit card offers purchase protection insurance to do this

      • Dean-o on 17/01/2011 - 23:42

        Technically 7 days before and 7 days after the purchase but always worth trying.

        P3t0r: if it is just a couple of weeks, call the store you got it from, you might be surprised. If it's a month or 2, I don't like your chances.

  • Hirokuro on 15/01/2011 - 21:15

    Did I mentioned how small the 90W power brick is.

    I'm impressed :O - looks like a 60W brick :)

    • StewBalls on 16/01/2011 - 03:35
      +2

      It's not the size of your power brick mate, it's how you use it! :p

  • punter1 on 15/01/2011 - 21:24

    OW website stated price $999

    • Hirokuro on 15/01/2011 - 21:30

      Read the title and description.

      You'll have to price match DSE at OW who has it for $799 to receive an additional 5% discount.

    • Richardlwf89 on 15/01/2011 - 21:30
      +3

      "Price: $759 price match DSE $799."

      The $799 is from DSE who are actually doing the promotion. The $759 is after pricematch at OW.

  • aldog on 15/01/2011 - 21:39

    Myer also had this for $780 for this weekend if that helps for more of a price match/beat.

    • ozboy on 17/01/2011 - 20:06

      HI Aldog,

      Which Myer did you see the DV6-3131TX? Is it in NSW or other states? I contacted few big Myer stores, such as Parramatta, City, Castlehill and chatswood, they all told me they don't carry this DV6-3131TX at all. They have only DV6-3132 and 3133 in stock. Staffs in all these stored told me 3131tx either discontinued ages ago from their system or they never carry it.

      I am really surprised the 780 at Myer is 3131tx or 3138 model

  • llama on 15/01/2011 - 22:02
    +9

    Almost Negged this… still deciding.

    This deal REALLY should be promoted as a Dick Smith deal - because they are the company who are promoting the great price.

    I think by now we all know that OW (and DSE) can do price matching (and it can always be added as a comment).

    Otherwise, every bloody deal on this site will look like it's from Officeworks. And that is rubbish, and giving them promotion that they definitely DO NOT deserve.

    • GregFiona on 15/01/2011 - 22:40

      i agree with you but that's not a reason to "almost" neg a deal ;)

    • Davo1111 on 16/01/2011 - 01:34
      +2

      Ive adjusted the title/url to fix the issue.

      Just to confirm Pricematching isnt a deal, its available for all electronic goods, and doesnt reward the original company that offered the good price. (it can be mentioned in the body, but the original store is to be judged for pos/neg voting)

      Also, HR stalks this forum, and i'll put money on the fact by 8am tomorrow they will release a new "low price" for this product.

  • morpheu on 15/01/2011 - 22:42

    strictly speaking maybe that's true, but i like OW because when it comes to their pricematching policy, they always honor it with me! plus my gift cards only work with OW, not DSE

    • creeps_bay on 16/01/2011 - 08:54

      Very true… they are upto their words… DSE sucks

  • [Deactivated] on 16/01/2011 - 00:38

    Is this a MacBook Pro?

    • iceagepig on 16/01/2011 - 00:41
      +7

      LOL

      • [Deactivated] on 16/01/2011 - 11:34
        -5

        Don't LOL me. Is it a MacBook or not?

        • CVonC on 16/01/2011 - 12:04

          old joke is old now.

        • [Deactivated] on 16/01/2011 - 14:49

          Since when was less than one week 'old'? I have to keep up with these things.

        • CVonC on 16/01/2011 - 15:12

          is when u spam it

        • [Deactivated] on 16/01/2011 - 15:59

          Posting 2 of the same post is spamming? I've got to write that down too.

    • ozhunter on 16/01/2011 - 17:33
      +2

      Does it say anywhere that it is a macbook pro? If you read the title, you can tell that it is a hp laptop.

      • issh on 16/01/2011 - 18:02
        +1

        i had to lol at that
        next: is that alienware?

      • [Deactivated] on 16/01/2011 - 18:52
        +1

        hp? My Vulpix has 246 hit points, what pokemon do you have?

        • issh on 16/01/2011 - 20:13
          +1

          n00b, i have lvl 99 ninetales, with 247 hit points

    • creeps_bay on 16/01/2011 - 19:15
      +8

      naah this is Sony BRAVIA 50inch 3D tv.

  • iceagepig on 16/01/2011 - 00:40
    -7

    OW is so tricky, they will drop their price asap and make sure no one else is getting the 5% discount, thats cheating, i think we should just go dse and ask them if they could also do 5% more off so avoid the doggy OW

    • Nutrino on 16/01/2011 - 20:47

      So let me get this right, every time dse does a good price they might as well take another 5% off?.

      Maybe they should have a disclaimer.

      *For red hot deal, take another 5% off because of office works.

      Please.

      How about this, because office works is doing 5 percent cheaper, get dse to price match the price match, get 10% off the difference from dse again, wait, then tell ow to price match again….

    • ozhunter on 16/01/2011 - 22:30
      +1

      Dunno why you think it is cheating.

      So you're saying because OW has a price-beat policy, they have to keep their prices above their competitors so customers can get another 5% off?

  • CVonC on 16/01/2011 - 01:19
    +1

    yeah good price for the specs.. pity it's HP

    • Cheeper on 16/01/2011 - 01:53

      Had a HP DV6 for over a year now and it's done some hard work. Love it, can't fault anything about it. When not on the road it works great as a desktop plugged into my 24" LCD.
      What do you consider to be the perfect laptop in this price bracket?

  • iceagepig on 16/01/2011 - 01:21
    -7

    why people neg my comment?????

    • StewBalls on 16/01/2011 - 02:06
      +5

      Ignore it, tis mostly meaningless. We get a lot of "negger guys" around here! ;)

      • merc250 on 16/01/2011 - 02:44

        LOL!!!

      • SydStrand on 16/01/2011 - 19:42
        +1

        Hey look! It's that negger guy, we don't appreciate you slandering an entire race on Wheel Of Fortune.

    • POWERevolution on 16/01/2011 - 16:02
      +2

      maybe OW staffs are watching you :)

  • RoboRat on 16/01/2011 - 02:09

    For those waiting on the new Intel chips, Sandybridge is in AU already. My uncle bought this baby for $1100 at HN:
    http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/au/en/ho/WF25a/321957-321957-…
    very cheap quad core laptops are here!

  • Naed on 16/01/2011 - 11:49

    Came across the toshiba a500/031 with bluray and tv tuner. Any opinions on whether this is a better deal at $787.50?

    Other specs appear similar. I'm buying one or the over today.

    • CVonC on 16/01/2011 - 12:05

      good deal with bluray but let down by it's nvidia 330M video card

    • Hirokuro on 16/01/2011 - 13:11

      Where?

      • Naed on 17/01/2011 - 12:13

        Sorry for the late reply. It was at Highpoint Myer, but they only had display stock left. There was no extra discount for display stock items though, at least not for me. It's part of a 5 day 25% off clearance items sale, which ends on Tuesday (I'm not sure what this covers exactly and whether it is store specific).

        An image of the price here.

        http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4135/0cde7c7a32295fe010d2…

        • ozboy on 17/01/2011 - 22:47

          Seems like a good price. I do believe the same A500/031 at JB in there website for 1599

          http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/computers-laptops/laptops/tos…

          Naed you may ask JB to pricematch for 787.

        • Naed on 18/01/2011 - 11:35

          I picked up the HP for my cousin as she doesn't really need blu-ray so the trade-off wasn't worth it. I'd imagine you could negotiate with JB, although they might make an issue of the display stock only note. I'd imagine you'd have to find a myer with stock first, and today is the last day for the sale.

  • videoman on 16/01/2011 - 13:28

    Pretty good price my friend bought this for over $1200 from harvey norman just before christmas. Although they did get over $200 of "extras".

    • muzzamo on 17/01/2011 - 11:17
      +1

      that "extra" wasn't a $200 1m HDMI cable was it?

  • innov on 16/01/2011 - 15:28

    FAR OUT!! My girlfriend just bought this at GG for $970 3 days ago!

    • issh on 16/01/2011 - 15:47

      don't they have like a policy
      "if you find a greater price, you will get 110% refund"
      idk, if its true or not

    • POWERevolution on 16/01/2011 - 16:03
      +1

      take it back and show them this ad, you will get 110% off price diff.
      I done it before as long this ad still valid or DS in your area have stocks.

  • ozzylow on 16/01/2011 - 15:44
    +1

    Just bought this today, great laptop, i was looking at getting a netbook first, but this one should last me alot longer. Thanks for posting this deal.

    • iceagepig on 17/01/2011 - 07:52

      hey have u unbox it? did u see the small black box inside is there any CDs like recover cd or any user mannual, my is just 2 piece of paper inside i find it unusual. pls let me know thx alot

      • Hirokuro on 17/01/2011 - 10:54

        yep mine just came with 2 pieces of paper.

        I did found it odd at first considering there were more manual documentations with my 2nd Gen DV6 (early 2010 model) and DM3 model

      • merc250 on 17/01/2011 - 11:27
        +1

        from my experience most computers and laptops these days dont come with recovery disks. You would usually have to create them yourself with the installed software already on the laptop. Sometimes this will take up to 4 blank dvds to make.

        • Hirokuro on 17/01/2011 - 14:39

          This particular model takes 5 blank DVD-5.

        • StewBalls on 17/01/2011 - 15:29

          That's a lot of bloat & shovelware! :o

  • some_one_some_where on 16/01/2011 - 15:57

    I would recommend that anyone looking for a laptop should buy with USB 3.0 connectivity. Good deal anyway.

    • issh on 16/01/2011 - 16:11

      that is to prepare for future technology

  • iceagepig on 16/01/2011 - 16:32

    just bought one at office work punchbowl. they pretty surprise with DSE's price. but they all good,$759.05 lucky they havnt drop the price down yet, only auburn and strathfield still have stock now.hurry if u want one.

    • issh on 16/01/2011 - 16:43
      +2

      officeworks have the most successful pricematch, i always pricematch there,
      i don't think they mind that much about price because they only care about your business so that's good

  • ozdesi on 16/01/2011 - 17:26

    HN has DV6-3205TX for $776

    http://www.harveynorman.com.au/product/1256973679459/hp-pavi…

    • fchis on 16/01/2011 - 17:33

      it's a demo.

      • Hirokuro on 16/01/2011 - 17:37

        It also doesn't have a powerful dedicated GPU like this one.

  • issh on 16/01/2011 - 18:03
    +1

    it's a shame though, that most of HP's line of DV6 are not full hd

  • SuperBoi on 16/01/2011 - 19:53
    +1

    nice find!

  • tenice on 16/01/2011 - 20:09
    -1

    Great price but im considering this laptop instead

    http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XC8893/pavilion-dv6-3139tx-n…

    Its got i7, 8GB , 1TB, 1GB Graphics 5650, Bluray burner for $1199 (apparently its normally $1899)

    Its a similar laptop to this one , but im not sure which is better considering the $400 price difference.

    • gmail92 on 16/01/2011 - 20:13
      +3

      in the end, will it make a difference what you want to do with the laptop?
      400$ is not a tiny amount either

      just bought this from blacktown OW
      funny thing is right afterwards they stuck a pricetag of $799 on :P

      • tenice on 16/01/2011 - 20:21

        yeh good point, although I think there is more then $400 of value between the laptops.

        I was planning to use it as a Blu Ray player as well by HDMI into TV (since i dont have a blu ray player)

        I looked around and the processor/RAM/HDD seem to be near the top end that you can get in a laptop

        The 3131TX does have 5 hours of battery life though which is nice.

      • iceagepig on 16/01/2011 - 22:29

        thats what i talking about haha, i m suprised they didnt do it straight away, normally they act fast than us, so how is urs did u get for $759 yeh? i was trying to get them throw me a bluetooth mouse and the sales dont really want to talk to me anymore lol.

    • Hirokuro on 16/01/2011 - 20:14

      It doesn't have a blu-ray burner ;)

      For the price, I guess it okay however are you sure you'll be using the 8GB of RAM and 1TB hard drive?

      If not then it's just a waste of money.

      • tenice on 16/01/2011 - 20:30

        I checked the 3139TX in person and it definitely does have a blu ray burner, most sites including HP, have it wrong.

        Good point though, 8GB is definitely more then enough.

        I guess ill go with the 3131TX as 5hours of battery life is great for university.

        Thanks for your help

  • shade on 17/01/2011 - 03:31

    I love this forum; even if its just for the comments. The lols I get…

    On topic: awesome price for this laptop. If HP did indeed fix their overheating issue; then this is most definitely worth thinking about.

  • iChopstick on 17/01/2011 - 13:43
    +1

    nice price, i picked one up from OW mona vale today.

  • Trojan on 17/01/2011 - 13:52
    +1

    Nice find. Picked one up from OW Wynyard.

  • Maxamillion21 on 17/01/2011 - 15:07
    +2

    Great find Hirokuro!!! Typing this on mine that I just bought from OW Browns Plains :)

  • ozboy on 17/01/2011 - 19:59
    +1

    Thanks for this forum. I actually bought the DV6-3131TX laptop at officeworks in Sydney on Friday the 14th for $930, pricematch with binglee price $970. After i seen this forum the dicksmith price Yesterday i was really shocked, as i already started using the laptop. Today i went there to officeworks, show them the dicksmith price and asked me is it possible to refund me back the difference of price beat of $799. The manager told me they don't have the price guaranteed policy giving the difference back, however as per customer goodvile service and the price was cheap at Dicksmith within 1 week, they refunded me of $171 back to my card.. This means my final price was $759.05 as well and my warranty for the laptop technically starts from today, not on Friday 14th.

  • CVonC on 17/01/2011 - 20:43

    How about DV6-3006TX i5-430M 1GB ATI5650 500GB 4GB for $699 @ 9289? almost exactly the same specs.. the only difference i believe is the CPU

    http://store.9289.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&cP…

  • ozboy on 18/01/2011 - 20:54

    Officeworks now changed their price for DV6-3131TX to 799. I don't think they will beat dicksmith 799 by 5% anymore..

    http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Com…

    I also noticed at JB hifi they reduced their price as 950, showing reduced to clear.

  • vicdor on 28/01/2011 - 19:11

    The site lists the laptop at 999 after the $200 discount?
    I'm guessing the 799 deal has expired?

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