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post #21 of 172
1/23/05 at 4:58pm
Man, I want the TM8100 but that price on the CL56 is awfully tempting. If it was widescreen I'd have been hooked already.
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post #22 of 172
1/23/05 at 5:39pm
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Originally Posted by ilCacciatore
If you call Mwave to order your CL56 they will put in a 7200 RPM HDD for whatever the price difference is.
Really? I suggested to a friend on a budget that he get a CL56 (I'm holding out for the new processors) but I was kinda dissapointed mwave didn't have 7200RPM drives. Any idea how much the jump from a 5400 to 7200 60GB drive is? I'll just assume its close to the price of other sellers until he calls them or whatever...
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post #23 of 172
1/23/05 at 6:22pm
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Originally Posted by Guspaz
The CL56 uses a standard Synaptics touchpad, which are used by nearly all laptops. I don't think many (if any) support middle-click.
mine does...
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post #24 of 172
1/23/05 at 7:46pm
Here, I found the thread that says people received CL56's from Mwave with toshiba HDD's (what's the consensus on that?) and only 266, not 333 MHz RAM. So you're stuck with PC2100 RAM until you go out and completely install your own. Corner cutting.

http://notebookforums.com/showthread...128+difference

http://notebookforums.com/showthread...128+difference
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post #25 of 172
1/23/05 at 8:34pm
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Originally Posted by themessenger500
Here, I found the thread that says people received CL56's from Mwave with toshiba HDD's (what's the consensus on that?) and only 266, not 333 MHz RAM. So you're stuck with PC2100 RAM until you go out and completely install your own. Corner cutting.

http://notebookforums.com/showthread...128+difference

http://notebookforums.com/showthread...128+difference
I would really call them first and just verify what you are getting, and pay the extra money to them to upgrade the parts if you want them (eg. PC2100-->2700) if it's so cheap, it probably won't be that much more expensive.
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post #26 of 172
1/24/05 at 4:03am
yeah i think im going to call tommorow even though i wanted to wait for the new processors
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post #27 of 172
1/24/05 at 12:17pm
is there really that big of a performance boost from pc2100 to pc2700?? I'm guessing there isn't much, as i doubt the ram is the bottleneck here
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post #28 of 172
1/24/05 at 12:58pm
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Originally Posted by smokedvw
yeah i think im going to call tommorow even though i wanted to wait for the new processors
So, what did they say? I'm considering ordering the same system. and their shopping cart (when configured with 1.8 CPU and 1gig RAM) says :

NB-BA20074
-BA03135
-BA20121
-BA20137
-BA20137
-AA24000

And, according to MWAVE catalog,

BA20137: MULTIWAVE 512MB PC3200 200-PIN NOTEBOOK SO-DIMM

and

AA24000: HITACHI 2.5" 40GB 08K0637 UATA100 8MB 5400RPM NOTEBOOK HARDDRIVE (Bare drive)
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post #29 of 172
1/24/05 at 2:53pm
sry, edit to my last post:

has anyone ever ordered directly from CHEMUSA, not compal, my bad :x
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post #30 of 172
1/24/05 at 3:53pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by ilCacciatore
If you call Mwave to order your CL56 they will put in a 7200 RPM HDD for whatever the price difference is.
Actually i tried that. I asked a sales lady if i can upgrade the HD on a system I saw on their website. The lady asked me for a skew number and so i gave her the one i saw on the website. Right after that, she was like "oh this is a notebook, it cannot be customize, it comes as is". So i said "oh so i can only CUSTOMIZE it with only the options availible online?" "uum, yeah" she responded....

Im sure there is a way to get the 7200RPM. But this sales person is making me think twice about MWAVE.
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post #31 of 172
1/24/05 at 4:20pm
Ok, I asked MWave tech support, and indeed, they use PC2100 memory, not PC2700.
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post #32 of 172
1/24/05 at 4:30pm
Can you get 2700 and a 7200 drive??
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post #33 of 172
1/24/05 at 4:42pm
Update: MWave sales has a different opinion: they say that memory they use is PC3200, and no, configuration offered on the web-site is not customizeable - only hard drives listed there are available.

You can check which harddrive it is by looking at the SKU list of the configured notebook and searching their web site for that SKU - 40gb drive is "HITACHI 2.5" 40GB 08K0637 UATA100 8MB 5400RPM NOTEBOOK HARDDRIVE (Bare drive)"
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post #34 of 172
1/24/05 at 4:51pm
What about warranties from Mwave? I mean for an extra $300 from discountlaptops I can get 2 year warranty, and 1 year part protection, on site for a year, and PC2700 ram.
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post #35 of 172
1/24/05 at 4:55pm
Update: MWave tech support confirmed that they no longer use PC2100 memory and ship notebooks with PC3200:

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Dear: Customer,

Thank you for contacting MWave tech support. It looks like they just changed it. I stand corrected. It's pc3200. Thank you.

Best Regards,
Alfonso M.
Multiwave Technical Support
tech@mwave.com
(909)839-7693
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post #36 of 172
1/24/05 at 5:11pm
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Originally Posted by Domin4nt
What about warranties from Mwave? I mean for an extra $300 from discountlaptops I can get 2 year warranty, and 1 year part protection, on site for a year, and PC2700 ram.
MWave memory turned out to be PC3200, and I do not really care about warranty - CL56 chassis is standard, all components are standard, most likely a year from now these components price will be next to nothing anyway. MWave price is much better, and they accept credit cards without surcharge - no need to screw around with money orders, paypal etc.
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post #37 of 172
1/24/05 at 5:35pm
So what is your final price for your CL56? I'm really tempted by mwave's deal, I have to say. Making me move away from the Asus M6, if only because of the rather large difference in price.
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post #38 of 172
1/24/05 at 5:51pm
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Originally Posted by dbhertz
So what is your final price for your CL56? I'm really tempted by mwave's deal, I have to say. Making me move away from the Asus M6, if only because of the rather large difference in price.
I ordered CL56 with

- 1.8 Ghz 745 CPU
- 40gb 5400 rpm harddrive
- 1gb memory (PC3200)

and the total came to $1285.00. While their shipping is not free, it is pretty cheap - ~$33 for 2-day FedEx Air.

I was looking for a while, and this is the best deal on CL-56 I found, by far.

Hopefully it will be as good notebook as my current Dell Inspiron 8200 (which is basically an older Compal CL).
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post #39 of 172
1/24/05 at 6:04pm
I'll look forward to hearing what you have to say about it after it arrives and you've had a chance to try it out.
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post #40 of 172
1/24/05 at 7:42pm
I was going to get the 1.8, 80gig and 1gig mem for $1365 i belive, the price is awesome.
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