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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
I checked the discountlaptop site - holy cow! that place is expensive
http://www.discountlaptops.com/index...clude_type=141
$1200 for a laptop with a cheap battery, that doenst even come with windows? you can get one from Dell or gateway or HP for $600 with the same HW/RAM/HD with windows installed.
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Their market isn't bargain bin laptops. They can't sell them any cheaper than the name brand companies do.
Compare their upper end stuff to Dell's upper end notebooks, and you'll find that you can get a significant discount--up to hundreds of dollars off.
P.S. the reason that one is more expensive is because it probably has a 5400 RPM hd vs a 4200 in the $600 laptop, and it has a dedicated graphics card, something you'll never find in the cheapie laptops. Not sure that those $600 ones come with integrated a/b/g wireless at no extra charge either. it certainly wouldn't come with gigabit ethernet They also aren't going to have a 1.7-1.8 ghz Sonoma processor. It'll be Celeron, or an older slower Centrino.
Let's compare the
Dell XPS M170 from dell.com, fully loaded, to the
Sager NP5720 with the same specs from discountlaptops.com
Dell's fully configured price-$3,951
Dell Sales Tax for CA-$327.95
Dell Shipping and Handling-$25
Dell total~$4,300
discountlaptops fully configured price-$2859
discountlaptops sales tax for CA-$0
discountlaptops shipping and handling-$25
discountlaptop total~$2884
That's a difference of $1400