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Found the *BEST* deal on a gaming laptop in europe
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23-11-2011 7:03pm#1So, I found a lot of people looking for gaming laptops here, and paying close to 1000 euro for a Nvidia gt 555m which I think is ridiculous, even for europe (I'm from the USA).
For those of you who have not heard of Clevo / Sager, they are a boutique manufacturer who has a slightly different selling process than other manufacturers like Wistron, Quanta, Inventec and Compal (the big guys who make Dells, HP etc secretly).
Clevo makes different types of contracts with people called "system builders" and other resellers. These companies rebrand the Clevo notebooks with their own logos. But, they are the same Clevo notebooks and its pretty easy to tell most of the time.
Anyway, there are a ton of Clevo resellers in Europe... and I found one selling refurb models, with 1st gen i7... and options for high end graphics, ALL options are better than the gt 555m and amd 6720 I see commonly on consumer notebooks.
They like to give you the option to upgrade yourself, so it starts with a very low i3 config, but STILL more powerful then those cheap 555m and 540m cards. And the price, only 499$ with tax
http://www.notebookguru.de/en/Notebooks/Guru-FIRE-i7.html
Here you can see a ranking of laptop graphics cards:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
OK, so maybe with the 260m its only ranked at 61 3 above the 555m at 64. But, for 550 you can get the 5870m, ranked 40th among all laptop graphics cards (out of 350+).
You just can't find a better deal then that.
They are refurbished models, but again for +50 you can get a new model, probably with USB 3.0 (might want to ask them).
This is definitely the best option especially if you have ANY computer parts lying around like 2gb ddr3, an i7-720qm, hard drive etc. or an Windows 7 install CD and some computer knowledge.
P. S.
They wont scam you, I don't work for Clevo or Notebookguru, not spamming here.
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Yes, thats because they build it for you.... I've looked at a few other sites, turns out the reviews for notebookguru are not so good.
This is the same laptop, with a 285m, i5-480m and 6gb RAM, also 1080p screen definitely a better deal:
http://www.chiligreen.com/shop/configurator.asp?serie=411&id=11070
But I dont think they ship outside of germany and austria.
This is the same laptop also, and has a lot more options for configuration. You can save 108 euro just by going from 1080p to 900p LCD! :O
http://web.eurocom.com/EC/ec_model_config1(1,210,0)
But the prices don't include tax.
This is the sandy bridge model and comes in at only 850 with gtx 560m, 4gb, matte screen and the lowest config i5.
http://web.eurocom.com/EC/ec_model_config1(1,219,0)
Anyway I think all of these are much better options than the 900-1000 euro models with just gt 555m unless you're looking for a lot of battery life.0 -
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