New Laptop

[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.

Something is not right there!

you guys got me wishing for a new laptop now! Thinking of this one:

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/sh...true&tab=specs

$629 W/ window home XP and free shipping.

[Conor Ryan]

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.

Something is not right there!

you guys got me wishing for a new laptop now! Thinking of this one:

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/sh...true&tab=specs

$629 W/ window home XP and free shipping.

Oh yeah Discountlaptops was expensive, your better off checking ebay out for an Acer Ferrari (my DREAM laptop) the hardware is built for a performance/gaming laptop. It's AMD (therefore better for CAD and Gaming) based and its got a whole lot of Ram and Awesome Video

On the budget laptops, about 2 months ago I got a HP ZV600 for a grand total of....$450, yes Office Depot had 3 $100 rebates and a $50 dollar one too, I priced the very same laptop out online for $1000. It's got nice specs too and is AMD based (i got the Athlon 64-M 3200+) and has Dedicated Video unlike its cousin the V2000 linky

[Cory]

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.

Something is not right there!

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 theDell 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