HOT? WARM? Weird, anyway! Brand new Medison laptop for $160

damn, just realized its DDR1 gonna be costly to upgrade that...
all else, prop for a great 2.2kg lappy that costs 160

Maybe "Scandinavia" is also the name of the shipping company because my North American shipping information is still intact even after selecting the "Scandinavia" shipping option.

I'd be very cautious. 2checkout isn't a tier one credit card processor. I would at least wait until people receive their laptops from them.

too good to be ture.

this looks awesome
i'm going to buy one or two once a few other users get them in their hands...



looks legit

Read the comments by a Swedish student:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/medi ... s/6107428/

I'd recommend caution as well... in all honesty, there are way too many question marks hanging over this offer.

Please continue to post details here.

jolok wrote: ↑too good to be ture.

+1

Well if this is legit, there are 79 lurkers waiting to RFD this deal.

Well, it seems to be a fraud. Not definite but like everyone says, proceed with caution.
This 'deal' has been slashdotted here:
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/07/25/1519256.shtml
and going quickly over the thread there definitely does seem to be some funny business.
Copied and pasted straight from Slashdot (which was itself copied and pasted from engadget)

"Johan L

*Could* be legit.

No battery right? No Windows (saves $100 right there) Via PN chipset (saves another $50) 256MB ram and and old Celeron processor...

Reminds me of the old $99US I-opener PC, people shot that one down, but that one was legit too.

ZenOps wrote: ↑*Could* be legit.

No battery right? No Windows (saves $100 right there) Via PN chipset (saves another $50) 256MB ram and and old Celeron processor...

Reminds me of the old $99US I-opener PC, people shot that one down, but that one was legit too.

It says it comes with a battery.

POWER - Full Range 65W AC adapter - AC input 100~240V, 47~63Hz, DC output 20V, 3.25A, Removable 6-cell Smart Li-ion battery pack, 4000/4400mAh

It would be cool if it was legit.

it does list a 6 cell battery...or did I mess something?
Hope it would be legit...

How is it confirmed legit?

I just did some brief checking and am very skeptical of this company. Sure, there could be "explainations" for everything but I like my 150$ too much to waste.

As been previously noted by a poster "Chris" at Engadget, the company has only existed for a couple of weeks. ( http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/02f0d ... ompdetails )

Secondly, the "business address" of this company has two problems. First, it seems to be a residential address. This is a property listing for a Ruffets Wood address, and this doesn't look like any computer manufacturer I've ever seen. http://uk.propertyfinder.com/2/pf/prope ... _DETAILS&=

Secondly, the same address is being used by a variety of companies, all with limited information or sounding very sketchy, and having been incorporated for brief periods within the last 2 years. Sure, maybe some guy lives there and rents out his address to many corporations as a mailer. Maybe it's a gigantic hi-tech complex smack dab in the middle of a residential street. (And miraculously occupying only the "27" section.) But there's other, less savory assumptions one could draw that could be believed more easily.

A foreign document from BolagsRegistering Ltd. :
http://www.companyregistrations.se/etableringspaket.pdf

http://www.sail-with.us/

Bygg Invest Limited
http://www.ukdata.com/numbers/05346974.html

BORGE & GJESTAD LIMITED
http://www.ukdata.com/company-credit-re ... MITED.html

EK Partner Limited
http://www.simplycreditreports.com/comp ... 24812.html

BAAT & MOTORSERVICE LIMITED

BAARD BENDIKSEN LIMITED

AK SALGSERVICE LIMITED
http://www.creditgate.com/companysearch ... MITED.aspx
(I'm no business analyst, but the history listed on this page is a little unnerving.)

V.K.A. LIMITED

XPECTSEC LIMITED
http://www.simplycreditreports.com/comp ... 16293.html

ASPECTUS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

Com-Elektro Gruppen

SJS COLLECT LIMITED

LABELPHONE LIMITED

Cumming Consulting Ltd.
http://www.cummings.dk/da/contact/

NORDIC MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION LIMITED

KEN-ERIK LIMITED

HG SHIPREPAIR LIMITED

I kinda stopped searching at this point, so there may be more. But it looks far too unreliable to me. I don't need a laptop badly enough to gamble 150$ at a thousand-to-one odds.

ok.. this is tempting.. i think i should wait until there's a confirmation that it's not a scam..

Moved to computers an electronics as there's no confirmation that this deal is legit so it's just a discussion for now. If it deal turns out to be real, I'll move it back to hot deals.

Its times like these that I wish I had a low limit credit card.

If anyone orders up, definitely post back your experiences.

Derek wrote: ↑Moved to computers an electronics as there's no confirmation that this deal is legit so it's just a discussion for now. If it deal turns out to be real, I'll move it back to hot deals.

hehe, so lurkers won't think it's a hot deal and order it!

Don't risk your money.

I know it hasn't been "proven" either fake or legit yet, but RFD shouldn't be used to propagate scams, and 4-6 weeks is a long time. There's enough in the thread, in the Engadget comments, and Slashdot to cast some serious doubt on if this thing should be allowed to continue.