How to Save Significant Money on a New Laptop

After six years of great service, my old Dell Inspiron 8100 is finally being retired. It was top-of-the line when I bought it, but it’s now an old dinosaur. It ran well up until a few months ago when the power cord started giving me issues.

After doing hours and hours of research over the past few months, I decided to purchase a Lenovo Thinkpad. I checked out all the popular deal websites to find the best deal possible. So this is what I came up with. I used my account at FatWallet to get 10% back from Lenovo and to have the laptop shipped to me for free. In addition, PayPal gave me $100 for simply using it to pay for the laptop.

Laptop Cost $1235
FatWallet Discount $123
PayPal Discount $100
Final Cost $1012

So I got a new decked out laptop at a very reasonable price. My laptop has 3gb ram, but only 1gb came installed. I ordered the other 2gb from Newegg. They had a deal running for a single 2gb stick - it was $50 with a $15 dollar mail in rebate and free shipping. Ordering the laptop from Lenovo with 3gb of ram installed would have cost me an extra $300. Ordering the extra ram from Newegg saved me $265 dollars.

So the next time you decide to purchase electronics, be sure to shop around. You could possibly save yourself a lot of money.

January 1, 2008 | Filed Under Deals 

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