So Best Buy ran an ad starting Jan 31 ending Feb 6. Back page featured a Gateway laptop for $499. 15.6" rocking the Core-i3, 4GB DDR3, and Blu-Ray Combo Drive with HDMI out. Pretty smokin' deal, even if it's from Cow Co.
So I bought it. Got it home. First thing I did was poke around BIOS.
SURPRISE! Gateway screwed up and put in a Core-i5 instead of a Core-i3! Ad says i3, box says i3, website says i3, hell, even the sticker on the laptop says i3 Inside. Not according to BIOS, System Properties, and CPU-Z!
I know there's customers at BestBuy.com that scored the same deal I did. Any readers happen to get lucky, too? More importantly, has anyone been contacted by Best Buy or Gateway about returning the laptop for the right one?
Or, is it a bug? Do I really have a Core-i3 being misrepresented?
link to Gateway's listing
http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668413.php#prodBar