No Customizing in Canada?

Sorry if this has been asked before, did a search and didn't find anything.

Anyways, I'm interested in the Envy 14 and have been trying to dig up some information. I know its not out until the end of the month but while looking around it seems to me that I can customize a notebook with HP Canada. Is this correct?

I mean I dont even see the Envy 17 listed anywhere, and when i pick any laptop on their site it doesn't let me customize anything like the US hpdirect.com site does.

Anyone know the deal with this?

Thanks

 

You can't customize on the HP Canada site.

As to WHY, well HP decided that Canada wasn't a market thriving enough to bother making a CTO factory up here. Only Dell and Sony offer customization options in Canada.

As it stands, all they have are pre-configured models.

 

I don't understand... the factory is in china... why can't they ship to canada?

 

Well that bites....

Being as we don't even have the Envy 17's in Canada yet I'm going to assume it's going to be a LONG time until Best Buy or Futureshop gets in the 14's. Although both have 'reduced' the prices of the other Envys, so they're obviously trying to clear out stock.

I ran into this issue with Lenovo, tried doing some customizing on an IdeaPad and can't.

Looks like if i want a decent portable laptop i'm going Sony (for a small fortune), or someone else and stuck with the not so attractive 1366x768 resolution. Unless it really isn't as bad as some make it out to be.

 

well.

if you have any friends in the US (and them mailing it across the border isn't an issue after they get it)

 

..I mean I'm not positive that would work but it might work.

otherwise yeah...you're stuck.

 

It's not profitable for them most likely. Canada and the US have different laws, different taxes and of course, different markets so one if not all those factors made HP decide not to offer a CTO option.

I mean even if they did, chances are the prices would be grossly inflated(see dell.com vs dell.ca for example) despite the dollar being not so far apart.

Chances are that if we get them, that they'll be both overpriced and underpowered. We got the first HP Envys when the 2nd generations were out and to this day, FS and BB still carry the 1st generation Envys. Same for the Studio XPS BB carries.

Tbh, what is it about a laptop that you want customized so bad? If it's CPU, GPU and screen res, then yes, that would be nice to have already on the laptop, but if its RAM and HDD, you can swap those out yourself.

Unless marked as a gift, it would work just that you'd end up paying the 5%+whatever your Province sales tax is on the laptop.

Ex: I'd pay 13.5% tax on a laptop shipped from the States(not counting shipping itself).

 

Basically I've been looking for a smaller sized laptop that has a nice screen, i5 processor, and a nice/comfortable keyboard, and decent to look at. I have a Macbook Pro at home but it wont run a lot of my work programs so it needs to be Windows (and I would rather not run Windows on my Mac).

It seems that every laptop I found to be decent (Lenovo Y460, Samsung R480, Toshiba E200-002) all had something missing and low screen res. The only one that I found that has it all (in what I want) is the Sony Z, but again its over $2000.

I think i've looked at every laptop there is while making my eyes bleed!

 

I'm also in Canada and am looking for something similar. Dell and Lenovo both have 14" models with I believe up to 1440x900 screen resolutions. Take a look at Dell's latitude laptops and Lenovo's T410/T410s, although the thinkpads might not meet your 'decent to look at' requirement

HP has a couple of elitebooks that are 14" and have higher res (1600x900) screens. They look pretty good but as with the envy you wouldn't be able to customize it on HP Canada.

 

Thanks for the tips, im going to take a look

 

Well looks like I'm going suck it up and get the Sony Vaio Z. Just wish their was a similar laptop for cheaper, but I think I'm asking too much.