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    aviator and sager same thing?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by brankulo, Jan 31, 2006.

  1. brankulo

    brankulo Notebook Geek

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    Elminst Some Network Guy

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    This is the same chassis that Sager uses, yes.
    The chassis is made by Clevo, a company out of Taiwan.

    Hypersonic pricing looks pretty nice, from a quick spin thru their config page...
    The RAM is way overpriced though. they want $130 for 1G dual channel (2x512). you can get the same from newegg for $80

    Too bad they're in NY and would smack me with nearly $200 in taxes.
     
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  3. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Yeah, it's the same thing.

    Hypersonic is WAY overpriced. Check out www.PowerNotebook.com, you can get the exact same machine for much less. www.ISTNC.com has the regular Clevo M570A [as posted, Clevo is the ODM that Sager, Hypersonic, etc. are built on] avaliable.
     
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    Elminst Some Network Guy

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    Hmm.. I configured it same as what I was looking at from discountlaptops.com and it came out only 40 bucks more. which is reasonable

    They must stretch the difference the higher the upgrades you put in it.

    edit- punched the same config into istnc and came out 200 lower... woah..
    Now i can't remember why i didn't look at istnc before! thanks chaz! What does shipping run from ISTNC usually?
     
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  5. Charles P. Jefferies

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    ISTNC has very good prices, very reputable too. :)

    It's nice that you can just not order memory, hard drives, optical drives, etc with it, upgrade those on your own.

    The hard drives are definitely overpriced by a good margin, be sure to upgrade that yourself.

    I built a notebook and added it to my cart, but I am not sure what shipping is, couldn't figure it out. You can just email them. :)

    Chaz
     
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