Anybody buy a laptop from Amazon? Need Opinions

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After having screen problems with my recent HP laptop purchase from circuit city (see this thread), i decided to return it and give the shopping a new try.

I found a great looking Toshiba laptop from Amazon and it looks like a great deal all around but I'm a bit apprehensive about buying a laptop from them. My biggest concern is their service plan. Is it any good? Is it convenient to replace or repair the laptop if there is a problem?

Anybody have any experience with buying a laptop from Amazon? How was your experience? Should I make the jump?
 
Can't help you with information about buying a laptop from Amazon, but are you looking to play games on it? The graphics card isn't very good at all.

Here's a good site for comparing graphic cards for laptops.

If I were you, I'd customize with Dell. You should be able to get a very similar laptop, with a better video card, for about the same price.
 
I have two major concerns with getting a Dell laptop. One is that their 17" laptops don't come with keypads, leaving the system looking incredibly bare with only a keyboard and a lot of empty space. The other major problem is that I've seen one 17" Inspiron laptop and the screen was VERY grainy. To be fair, i'm not sure if that person bought the "Ultrasharp" screen but they did buy the Widescreen TrueLife Glossy display and the screen looks UGLY; I can't stand looking at the grain all over the screen. It looks like looking through a sandpaper filter.

You do bring up a good point about the videocard however. I didn't even check up on that too much. I won't really be playing any video games on the laptop, but I do want to video edit on it and I didn't realize how shitty the videocard was. Is that going to completely mess up my video editing even though it's a core 2 duo with 2GB of RAM? If so, i might go for something else.

Thanks for the helpful video card comparison link, BTW.
 
Again I havent bought a laptop or a service plan for one from amazon. However I was in my local bestbuy today and they had a Toshiba with Core Duo t2250? (not core 2 duo) 2gb ram, 160gig sata 5400 hd, 17 widescreen for 999.99 out the door (clearance ymmv). I honestly wouldn't drop the extra money on a lil bigger hard drive and the upgrade to core 2 duo.
 
No, I'd say most people go straight through the manufacturer.
@guyver: Sub-$1K and a dedicated graphics card? If you want that in a laptop, you're going to get what amounts to a no-frills computer with a low-end graphics card in it. I'm talking 80GB and lower hard drive, cheap-o Vista, 1GB memory, no DVD burner, etc.
Alienware offers a nice
 
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