been waiting for 3 months to buy sager laptop for gaming! wait more?

i have been waiting for 3 months for better deals on the np8660 with 9800m gts.

the laptop is basically the SAME as three months ago! and I will be needing to buy a laptop within about a month.

would the price drop or better graphics cards show up?
i would like a sager because i heard good things, and i like the price, but im afraid of the resale value.

any suggestions on what i should do or wait is welcome!
thanks

 

Wait as long as you can wait. After that, buy the laptop you want and can get at that point in time.

The reason the laptop has been the same all these months is because its the best 15" out there and there is no reason right now for it to change.

However, if new graphics cards and cpus are coming out for the m860tu, then you can always upgrade the laptop. With a warranty from pcmicroworks.com, you can return the old part and just pay the difference on the upgrade.

 

if you do buy that sager my advice is buy it from www.powernotebooks.com they pretty much have the highest resale rating for computers below is the link provided

http://www.resellerratings.com/store/PowerNotebooks

and i have to agree with Deathwinger just wait it out just in case the price drops

 

The price has dropped like $300-$400 since I got mine in August '08. You're dreaming if you think it'll go down any lower.

 

There's already been the Holiday Sale and now it's become a price drop. When it was released, the initial price was about $1700. Now it's at $1400. You should always wait since there's always something better coming. But I don't expect something new until the second half of 2009.

 

[warning sarcasm]

its like trying to buy the NP9262 for $600 but yeah just go with your best judgement as long as your happy who cares right?

 

i like the upgrade idea, but is that only from pcmicroworks? do they sell np8660?
and do powernotebooks and xoticpc let me upgrade too?

 

np8660 = Edge on pcmw. They currently have a 15% off sale going on. But their prices have a higher starting value, so when you take that %15 off, it should come out relatively close to other resellers out there. In general, I never hear bad things about xoticPC. No experience with them myself though.

 

Its called the EDGE at Pcmicroworks.com

The computer in itself is upgradeable. What I'm saying is that PCMW has a unique warranty that allows you to send back components that you purchased with the laptop and upgrade for only the cost of the difference between the components.

So its like if I wanted the T9800 and its retailing for $600 US, I can send back my P9500 and it would be considerably cheaper now for me to get the T9800 and I'm also in a position not to worry about having to sell the P9500 on ebay or NBR.

 

you can visit pc microworks. they have the edge which is the same as the 8660 but maybe they may come down a bit if you called them. or you can get the msi 725 with dual ati video. its a good product. here a list of it at amazon but check out the msi posts.

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GT725-075...ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1230108543&sr=1-1

 

I'm in no rush to get one; may wait six months or more for a good deal. It all depends when you want it by.

 

i'm thinking about waiting until there's a mobile video card that can compete with the desktop 8800 GT 512 mb.... right now, the 9800M GTX is too expensive for something that performs less than a 2 generation old desktop video card

 

The 9800M GTX is on par with the desktop 8800 GT, but as you pointed out it is very expensive.

 

There's unlikely to be another price drop within your time-frame (one month); any further price drops, if they happen at all, are not likely to come until the middle or end of the summer, as Clevo gets ready to release for sale the new products it will be demo-ing at CeBIT a little later this year.

 

i don't think they're will be a price drop until the next version of it comes out so get it now it's never good to wait in a world filled with ever evolving technology

 

I guess around Q3 nvidia will be releasing their GeForce mGTX280(or GTX280m whatever! ) gpu(with a die shrink to 40nm i guess!) - http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=22566 Upgrade anyone?