How to get the free Xbox with purchase
- Sign into your Amazon.com student account (it only requires a .edu email address)
- Purchase one of the eligible laptops, sold by Amazon.com (not a third party)
- 8 Days later you’ll receive an email notifying you of credit on your account for a free Xbox 360 4GB Console.
- Now purchase a Xbox 360 4GB and it should show up as $0.00 during checkout.
More details and some buying advice
Amazon has a full list of computers that are eligible for the promotion. But, not all of them are necessarily on the cheap side; the lowest one is $699.99. Brands include: Toshiba, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Asus, and Acer. Also, they have some desktop PC’s available, but none of them are a good price for the hardware you get so let’s stick to the laptops.
Of the PC’s available, a few are last year’s models. With that said, if you are going for the lower range on the price scale, there are only 3 laptops worth looking at:
- Dell Inspiron 17R i17R-6121DBK ($779)
- ASUS U30SD-XA1 ($799)
- Lenovo IdeaPad U260 08763BU ($799)
Of the 3, the Asus laptop is likely the best offer thanks to its discreet NVIDIA GPU with 1GB of vram; whereas the other notebooks only include integrated Intel HD onboard graphic processing despite using the same i5 CPU.
Important fine print!
- Amazon Student Members only!
- Must be purchased directly from Amazon.com – not Amazon.uk, .co, .de, or any 3rd party seller listing on Amazon.com.
- You can’t use the credit to upgrade to a better Xbox, it is only good for the 4GB version with no bundles.
- Limited to 1 per shipping address.
- You receive the free Xbox credit 8 days after purchase of the PC.
- Contest ends Sep. 3, 2011
Conclusion
There are some higher end options available in the $1100-$2000 range, but I wouldn’t spend that much just to get in on a free Xbox deal. For the more expensive computers you are better off waiting for a real sale. On the low end however, it is worth it. Honestly, at $800 for a powerhouse laptop it is not a bad deal, especially when you throw in a free Xbox (that you can later sell on craigslist/ebay if you want).
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