text: at which department store can i get a reasonably priced laptop.used or new for about 500 dollars? it can be a department store or a manufacturer....does not matter. you can get brand new one at gateway.com (http://www.gateway.com/home/products/hm_ptb_catalog.shtml?clv=lnav) for about that.  they also sell gateway's at office depot i think.  if gateway has that deal, i would bet that best buy and compusa have comparable deals.  thats the bottom line cause huffdawg says so.