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    ul80vt is available at newegg- Cancel your amazon preorders ! :)

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by sighie, Oct 22, 2009.

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    What, not a single customer review..... :) I noticed it say's Keyboard = standard, I guess no backlit keyboards snuck in :(

    Edit; the picture does show just a standard keyboard, no special functions to F3, F4 or the A keys.........
     
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    curse Canada and their slowness in getting new laptops.
     
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    ..XoticPC and GenTechPC have amazing customer service and better prices than newegg. Don't get me wrong, I love newegg, but if I pull the trigger on this thing it'll be with Xotic or Gentech
     
    Hoy, Oct 23, 2009
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    Actually, buy.com's ebay store sells this lappy for $825 and if you get the bing cashback of 8%, it will bring the total down to $759. Cheaper than anywhere else.
     
    ckthepilot, Oct 23, 2009
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    Excaliberpc has it for 819.99
     
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    mabyee im blind but I couldn't find it on buy.com
     
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    Eek! buy.com through ebay and bing!! oh my!

    Saves a great deal of money indeed. Free shipping too? XoticPC has it for under 800 after discount with free shipping and their customer service is great!
     
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    hmmmm....... XoticPC also has the UL50VT-A1 priced the same but it has a 500gig HD instead of a 320, and has a 15.6 screen...... choices choices
     
    diesel_fireman2001, Oct 23, 2009
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    That Ebay/bing price is too good to turn down. I was going to try and wait but for $759 I had to go for it. Hopefully I won't be disappointed.
     
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    *sigh* Good for you guys. Unfortunately, I live in California and the Bing cashback isn't even enough to cover the taxes (9.75%).
     
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    That means the laptop is coming from CA, huh? Cuz out of state shipping has no taxes.
     
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    Not necessarily. It just means they have physical presence in the state.

     
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    Ah, forgot about that stipulation. Luckily it's not the same in Washington, which has 9.5% tax. Second in the US under California...
     
    kyonu, Oct 24, 2009
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    Lucky it is not in MD also!
     
    neugentmf, Oct 26, 2009
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