After speaking to seniors and looking at many deals on the net. I finally finalised on one laptop.And the best thing is i bought it on India's 60th Birthday. 60th Independence Day of India.

Dell Inspiron has become very common here around, so i thought taking something different. So thought of going for HP. And plus point with HP is it comes with inbuilt WebCam and Mic.

I chose my deal on Deals2buy.com and chose HP Pavilion (2.GHz Intel Core Duo T2450 , 1GB DDR2, 160GB, DVD±RW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium, 15.4" LCD - MPN: GA378UA).

The price then was $849 with $200 rebate, that comes to $649. Then i upgraded the RAM to 2GB. So another $89 for that + $30 for installing the new RAM. 

I took this deal last week which had $200 rebate on it. i.e $150 rebate from the showroom from where i bought it - CompUSA and $50 rebate from HP - they give to everybody who buys a HP Notebook.

In US rebate is a nice way of making people take stuff. Sometimes they have online rebate and you can fill them quickly , but most of them are mail rebate and they should be filled in and sent within 45 days of purchase. Even you can get a printer completely free of cost , but you need to pay before and rebate it later. They will definitely send the rebate by check to you , but most of the times people forget sending for the rebate and the companies make nice money ..  

But now its slightly more than the last week price.

Check this link for details . HP Pavilion Dv6426us Notebook .