$3,000 Laptop for $1300 - General

Slayer Tactical Officer Posts: 869	Posted on Mon Nov 29, 2004 6:59 am Here is my plan for building my own Falcon Northwest Centrino Machine for only $1300. Any info you got (like where I can buy cheap Centrino processors) would be helpful. Falcon Northwest's Fragbox TL configured with 1gig of RAM, 7200 HD, and Centrino 1.7Ghz comes out to: $2,821.88 Now, as you may or may not know Falcon, Alienware, Dell, Toshiba, etc etc don't actually make the laptops. Falcon uses the CL56 which I found here for $784 with free shipping. We got our Turkey, now for the stuffing. Hitachi 40Gig 7200 RPM HD $121 Corsair 512MB PC3200 Laptop Memory $84.27 x2 1.6Ghz Centrino CPU $209 Grand total: $1283 If anyone is laptop savvy please let me know if you see anything wrong. For example, I almost bought a Centrino with 1MB L2 cache instead of 2MB. My mom is on my case about my hospital bill, so if I can find a way to get the price under $1200, that would be sweet. [ This message was edited by: Slayer on 2004-11-29 14:04 ]


Anonymous Poster Sergeant Major Posts: 179	Posted on Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:01 am Oh my God, I was gonna order the CL56 tomorrow and its freaking out of stock today. Such gayness.


Gearshift Intelligence Officer Posts: 346	Posted on Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:46 am oh noes


Slayer Tactical Officer Posts: 869	Posted on Tue Nov 30, 2004 12:27 pm SSWWWWEEEETTTT! BACK IN STOCK!!! /train chugga chugga chugga


Dolemyte Commander Posts: 1116	Posted on Thu Dec 2, 2004 2:35 am
	Dolemyte Commander


Slayer Tactical Officer Posts: 869	Posted on Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:14 am Update: Mission successful. Everything went smoothly except for the wireless card not being able to pick up my wireless router. I think I needed to get an Intel 2000 or 2100 Mini-Pci and not a 3rd party card. I'll have to buy one when I get more money next month.


Anonymous Poster Sergeant Major Posts: 179	Posted on Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:59 am hey u buy the barebone does it come wiht vid card?


Anonymous Poster Sergeant Major Posts: 179	Posted on Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:20 am Oh an also you think you could post a pic of it im thinking of buying one but i wanna see what the laptop look like.


Slayer Tactical Officer Posts: 869	Posted on Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:22 am Yup, it comes with everything you need. So all you need to buy is what I listed. Everything is in the carrying bag that comes with it. (CPU fan, plates to screw in on top of everything). Only thing is it does NOT come with instructions on how to put everything together. You get instructions as if you are buying the laptop already put together. Do not attempt this unless you have at least put together a desktop computer.


Slayer Tactical Officer Posts: 869	Posted on Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:20 am My only gripe is the display. In games it looks fine, but on solid colors you can see that the top is a little darker than the bottem.


Slayer Tactical Officer Posts: 869	Posted on Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:32 am


Slayer Tactical Officer Posts: 869	Posted on Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:33 am Here you can see the small brightness problem.


Anonymous Poster Sergeant Major Posts: 179	Posted on Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:11 am cool thanx, i think im gonna get this set up. i built about 3 desctops from scratch so far so i think laptop should not be a problem


Slayer Tactical Officer Posts: 869	Posted on Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:57 pm Yeah, you should have no problem. You don't even have to unscrew the case. Who is this anyway? [ This message was edited by: Slayer on 2004-12-22 19:58 ]