Temptations: Refurbished HP Pavilion G60-235DX for $470

If you are in the market for a laptop, and you have no need for the lightweightness and cuteness of the netbooks, but instead want some real juice (well, compared to the netbooks), then you may be tempted by this fruit: The refurbished HP Pavilion G60-235DX notebook delivered for $470 by Buy.com. Please keep in mind, this is refurbished, aka reconditioned.

It has a number of desirable features, including a 16" widescreen LCD, 3gb of memory, 320gb hard disk, super-multi dvd burner with lightscribe, wireless, webcam, HDMI, card reader, and things like that. Graphics is, as you can expect from the price point, the Intel GMA4500M.

It weighs 6.57 pounds and comes with a 90-day warranty and the loaded OS is (surprise, surprise) Vista Premium.