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Gone  post #1 of 13 Thread Starter  About 3 minutes after
ordering the 7700, I was roaming around the internet for reviews
on the laptop. It scared the crap out of me. So, I entered a
period of buyers remorse, thinking about how much I just spent
on a system that could come to my house broken. About spending
more money on a system that other companies could build for
less. Then I ran into a post by "Hammerhead" on some random
forum that made me wonder.  So, I went to each site and built a
PC as custom as they would let me. Each option was chosen to
match what I bought for my 7700. If they didn't have a matching
option, I chose the option of equal or lesser performance.
These prices are also after any rebates, both instant and mail
in.  $4,851.25 - Comparable Falcon Northwest, a few things extra
that you can't downgrade, but, the cost of individual parts from
a retail site added up to only $300, bringing the machine to
$4551.25.  $3,104.00 - Compar