Ordering from abroad

I am considering the Sager 9261 as an option to the XPS1730 for my next laptop. As far as I can see, the Sager is a way better buy with Quad CPU and GPU options.

However, Sager is US based and I live in Norway.. so, the laptop has to be shipped across quite a lot of water, go through customs and then to me.

And, if anything fails with the machine, it has to go back. Has anyone experience here with ordering Sager from outside the US and also returing it upon problems?

Then the to stupid questions:
1: power supply, we have diffrents outlets, does Sager provide other power supplys then US versions?
2: Vista - when ordering the US version, is it possible to change this to another language or is it locked?

 

In order to minimize the risk of hardware failure, I decided to order only the barebone (without CPU, memory and hard drives). You can order the rest in Europe, so it will be easier for you, in case you get problems with these parts, to change them within Europe without the huge shipping costs.

 

But then I have to build this thing for myself

I forsee problems, huge ones. But you dont recommend ordering a machine with this shipping distance?

It would be fun to have "something else" and the price of the package is way better then what I can get it for in Europe.. I think.

 

I think the pricing difference is not that big when you've added the taxes.
For example a D901C, 2GB, 200GB, E6750, 8700GT:

In Europe at Schenker (mysn.eu): E 2279, including shipping

In the US at xoticpc.com: $2746 + shipping ($223) + tax on everything (19% for NL) = E 2377.

In fact, Schenker is cheaper here...

 

To build the hardware is very, very easy. Believe me...
If you buy only the barebone you have less probability that one day you will have to send it back...
Besides if you buy the barebone and you look for the best price in Europe for CPU, Memory and hard drives, you will save more than 400 € (comparing the price with Schenker)!

 

Schenker is interesting, but it worries me that they dont have english as an option. I can speak and read some german but not enough for tech support if needed. Is this some sort of cheap warehouse or a strickt internet supplier?

 

There are many resellers but generally they don't sell to other Eurpean countries...
For example:
There is one from Portugal... Their prices are extremely good... but they have never answered me... http://webservinfor.com/php/product_info.php?cPath=44&products_id=895

 

You can email them in English like I did. I got an answer within 24 hours from them. (Strangely the email was written at 22:00)..

I asked if it was possible to get an English keyboard & Vista and that wasn't a problem. BTW: I have no experience with them whatsoever...

 

i agree. just build it yourself.

that's what i'm doing too.

i order with just 2x videocards and the screen i want

 

my opinion is pay more and have them build it.
all so they can test it all and give u a running lappy.

i never took apart a lappy and put it back together again, if i did i dont think it would work. lol. i am 1 rep power for a reason

 

I have decided differently, but I have always built my computers... I love it, it is so much fun... Anyway, since I had a bit of unluck, I decided to buy the barebone in America and the rest here in Europe (for the cheapeast price). I will save around 500 € because 1) The Euro is very strong 2) In America you have much cheaper prices 3) in Europe Clevo resellers sell the hardware (memory, hard drive and CPU) more expensive than the normal price.