by: dmobbjr February 13, 2011 2:25 PM PST
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You've seen this before.
by R. Proffitt 
- 2/13/11 2:40 PM
In Reply to: barebones laptops by dmobbjr
The idea of bare bones laptops was tried a few times over the years. Since these are not mass produced the costs are higher than folk expected. Which caused the sales to not reach the volumes needed to lower the prices.
No mystery here but you may not remember the attempts and why you don't find such things aplenty.
Bob
are they still around
by dmobbjr - 2/13/11 6:43 PM
In Reply to: You've seen this before. by R. Proffitt
Are there any still around though?
If they are.
by R. Proffitt - 2/13/11 7:44 PM
In Reply to: are they still around by dmobbjr
Google would have found them. I saw some last year but the cost was double what an off the shelf laptop was.
Are you sure you need to pay twice the price so you can get exactly what you want? That is, would it matter that it had bluetooth and you don't want that?
Bob
no
by dmobbjr - 2/14/11 7:14 PM
In Reply to: If they are. by R. Proffitt
It's not that I want anything specific I just like building things myself, especially computers.
Then back to the search.
by R. Proffitt - 2/14/11 8:41 PM
I had hoped you would discover on your own the answer. Just so we're clear the bare bones market for laptops has been tried many times. The numbers don't work like desktops and even though this has been tried a few times, you can see how many companies offer this.
Bob
Sure you want a barebones laptop
by rebell1952 - 7/12/11 4:59 PM
In Reply to: Then back to the search. by R. Proffitt
I fully appreciate what you're saying about the cost of a barebones laptop and I agree that they are far too expensive to be practical. Only thing is, one must buy "off-the-rack" laptops from one of the multi-national computer corporations, which means one must sacrafice quality and customer service/tech support for price. So, either way, you're pretty much screwed.
I just returned an Acer Aspire laptop with all the stuff I really wanted, 2.3GHz dual core, 4GB DDR3 ram, 320GB HDD, 3 USB ports, HDMI out, webcam and microphone and best of all, a combo blu-ray/DVDRW. The best part was the price, $448 from Walmart Online. But I hadn't read the reviews prior to purchasing and when I did read them it appears the 30% arrive D.O.A.. However, mine was useless for a very differnent reason, a bogus Windows 7 Home Premium install, which Acer absolutely refused to take responsibility for and Microsoft demanded $129 for a new product key.
So, it's really too bad one can't build a laptop like you can a desktop. I recently build this desktop for well under $300 and while it's not a gaming computer, it is comparable to anyone's $800+ system.
I ran into that.
by R. Proffitt - 7/12/11 7:30 PM
In Reply to: Sure you want a barebones laptop by rebell1952
It was easy to fix with the restore media I created the day the machine arrived.
In this case some MALWARE the owner missed has broken the licensing. It's not Acer or Microsoft at fault entirely but I can see where folk would flame the companies over a malware issue like that.
Bob
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