Barebone Kits

[AaronP]

What are some good sites for buying Laptop barebones? And I mean more than just ASUS Barebones. Google mostly gives me ASUS.

 

[monkeyfistofdeath]

I have a MSI-1029 and I really like it.

I happen to work for a reseller and could buy it special order through distribution channels.

But they are available other places too.

you can see all the MSI notebook models here(both complete and barebone):

http://www.msicomputer.com/NB/index.asp

and just put the model you like into www.pricegrabber.com to find it.

 

[skully]

MSI also has a 17 inch lappy powered by a X700 with 128 megs of memory. There are issues with the ms-1029 and memory you can see details in this thread

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=101846

Other than that issue the MS-1029 from www.msicomputer.com is a good lappy for
midpowered gaming. it'll run FEAR decently at the lower resolutions and the Screen handles lower than native resolutions fairly well in my experience. Also if you want a Pentium M based barebones lappy MSI offers that as well. It's the ms-1032 and the GPU for that is the 6600 Go.

 

[skully]

If you can wait maybe a couple of months there is a new laptop coming out from
MSI

http://www.msicomputer.com/NB/product_spec.asp?model=MS-1039

previews for the x1600 GPU are here

http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=756&cid=2

and

http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2220

MSI has pretty good build quality for it's notebook from what I've and I have a 1029 myself. you might consider the 1039 if you're going to get a barebones.