best place to buy laptop?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:42:56PM -0800, Thomas Milne wrote:
> Someone asked me about what laptop to buy, and I don't know laptops,
> so I checked here :-)
> 
> Going through the 'laptop recommendation' threads, I saw that Lennart
> was very keen on Lenovo and also Asus, esp with the Core 2 Duo, so
> that's what I recommended. However, one thing I'm not sure of at all
> is what is the best way to buy one.
> 
> Are the best deals online? To my thinking, it's more likely you are
> going to get _exactly_ what you want if you order online, as opposed
> to buying whatever Store X has in stock, but does anyone have any
> experiences with this?

For an Asus I would just go to Canada Computers or other local computer
store (My wife got her EeePC at canada computers and her R1F at Lu
Computers (They were cheapest at that time for the model).

For a Lenovo thinkpad, get it from lenovo.com using whatever coupon code
is currently best (see redflagdeals.com for coupon codes for lenovo).

If you want a customized laptop, the lenovo online order is nice.
Getting anything customized from a store is going to be pretty close
to impossible.

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