Purchase Sager Laptop shells

I am looking to build some laptops with a tech club at university. I would like to buy some laptop shells, and possibly compatible form factor motherboards. As I understand, sager has laptop form factors without integrated CPU and GPU. This would allow us to plan out differing specs for each individual laptop, while still assembling the parts ourselves. I understand they would probably not be under warranty.

 

The Clevo P750, P775, and P870 can all do that.

RJTech sells barebones. The gpus can be changed, but they seem to make you pick one.

http://rjtech.com/shop/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=30361

 

I saw this site, but it seems way overpriced for just a shell, motherboard, and screen. I can get this https://www.sagernotebook.com/Notebook-NP8155.html for $1200, but if I want to buy a similar shell from RJTech, it is $1200, without CPU, RAM, or hard drive. Am I missing something?

I do like the fact that I can tell them to send me the disassembled parts.

 

Additionally, they are charging $650 to upgrade from the 1060 to the 1080. The 1060 is ~$200 and the 1080 is about ~$650. So they are either not charging for the initial 1060, or they are upcharging $200 for the 1080.

I wish laptop components were similar to desktop components in that you can buy a motherboard and case for under $500. Even accounting for the integrated screen, the total shouldn't come to $1200.

 

Yes you are missing something.

The Sager you linked is soldered, the parts can't be removed. The Sager NP9157 is the correct model. The only laptops where the cpu can be removed are equipped with desktop cpus. There are some where the cpu can't be removed but the gpu can, namely the MSI GT series.

Your math is also wrong for the 1060 and 1080. Those are desktop prices, the laptop gpus cost way more because they are in a more limited market and a more difficult chip to produce than their desktop counterparts.

The Eurocom Tornado F5 is all removable too. Maybe contact them and ask for a special order with no parts.

 

What you have from Sager has a mobile CPU and GPU mounted to the main board. What RJTech has in the above link is intended for a desktop CPU and MXM video card; you're paying the higher premium for the luxury of modular parts (and a desktop CPU).