Canadian looking for a desktop replacement laptop

look into the mx51 by www.michaelscomputers.com

company is legit as far as i know, visit my topic and another fellow board member ordered one and will be doing a full review and everything when his arrives to him.

price is reasonable as well

If you want to buy in Canada, Eurocom is the best dealer I could find - but they are really overpriced. The only way to bring their prices down somewhat is to take advantage of their trade-in policy: Ship a working, used laptop or desktop system (PII minimum, the desktop needs to come with a working monitor), and you get a 20% discount.

Let's look at the numbers: For something like pctorque's 5680, configured as 3ghz P4, 60gig 7200 rpm drive, CDRW/DVD, 1gig ram, UXGA screen, internal wireless, Eurocom will charge about $4100CAD. With the 20% discount, you get $820 off, so you end up paying $3280CAD, closer to your budget. You should be able to pick up a used PII system for around $50-100CAD if you look hard enough. so total cost is around $3350 + $50 shipping + tax.

Now let's look at PCTorque. For a 5680 similarly configured, you will pay $2129 ($2080 cash discounted). Add $150 shipping, and you're at $2279/$2230. With exchange just over 1.3 nowadays, you're total is $2962/$2899 + tax.

So the question you have to ask is: If you do have to ship your laptop back for repairs, etc, is it worth paying an extra $400-$500 to ship within Canada?

I chose PCTorque as my US example since they are the cheapest I've found for the Sagers. I haven't purchased anything from them...yet

-Peter

I'm from Canada and I got a Sager 8890. Whats wrong with shipping back to the US. I think nothing. Anyway it's highly unlikely you will ever have to ship it back anyway. Plus the sager 8890 is the king of performance.

price match

I was in the same situation as you and I called them to know why they were more expensive. They didn't give me an answer to that question but they offer to price match PC Torque. The only problem I get is when it was time to order (D500P equivalent to Sager 5680) the guy told me that he couldn't match that price which was at that time about 2400$ cnd and the best price he could give was 2800$. I argue with him on the phone and after about 45 min. he said that he would charge 100$ more than PC Torque. He said that the reason was that if I ordered from PC Torque, I'd have to pay 100$ for the shipping. Finally I get my D500P for 2500$cnd which was at that time about 900$ less than the price on their website and no borders hassles.

You should try to ask them for a price match but the problem with Eurocom is that the support is not as great as PC Torque seem to be and the shipping is very long. It took 1 month between the time I ordered and when I received it. It was early september when the model came out, so maybe they had a lot of orders with not enough system??