Truly Custom Laptops

Even if I bought the barebones and put my own stuff in, it'll cost $800 anyway

If you are looking for a high performing laptop, you really shouldn't expect to pay anything under $1000. With a few exceptions being the gateway laptop series, and a few others.

In reality, I have been looking for a very nice laptop for under $3k for a while now. I'm looking at the OCZ ati crossfire barebones, but to put graphics processors in it is just another $1k!!!

You might be able to pick up a used Asus G51 or something like that for under $800, and that's still a plenty potent machine.

Get a bunch of modders mesh and build your own using desktop parts. Then all you need is to carry around a backpack of batteries... Okay, thatveas just a bad idea to begin with. I just think an all modders mesh laptop would look cool. :p

Your best bet is to just by used, if you're looking to save $$.

I just found this site, and it's amazing. I don't know how safe it is though.


http://rjtech.com/shop/index.php



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A "whois" look up finds and a simple call finds it to be safe, but I'm still not sure.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/rjtech.com

Nice find. They even have MXM cards. :D

For anyone wondering, Clevo is kinda like Compal; they make laptops for a bunch of different OEMs. IDK who all sources from Clevo, I know at least Sager does, and they're very well built machines.

EDIT:
Found the lists on their product pages on rjtech. Not comprehensive, but gives a good ballpark:
Clevo:
Sager, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest, Eurocom
Compal:
Acer Inc., Dell, Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu Siemens, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq (also, Apple, I happen to know)

Clevo and Compal FTW. Both are solid (when sold as their own branding.)

Hello friend,
I think you will have to compensate with the price of an custom laptop because since they are fixing the device as per your configuration(like assembled pc) which is a rare thing.Hence the total cost prise is definitely gonna increase rather then getting within your budget.

How do you add parts to this?

I dont think this is the OCZ bare bones kit, but I imagine it would be very similar.