build above my price range - are you negotiable?

[stevemac]

Hi there, I am just asking on here as I've sent an email to your customer enquiry department explaining my situation, basically Im a student looking to do Video and photoshop design and study IT for my A levels and I hope to gain the best skills I can in this area, but to do this I need a high end laptop. Anyways, the build I am looking at comes to 1350, (£1112 exc. VAT) based on my situation as a student, I was wondering (scratch that, PRAYING) that you guys would be able to do the build for around 1100ish? (basically exc. VAT price) I know this is a HUGE ask but, I really need something like this and have heard so many good things about PCSpecialist. I am happy to promote the company on Youtube and blogs, and in my local news.

Could this be possible? I can pay the full amount if it can, on Friday morning, as if it is possible, this is when I'd look to make an order.

Thanks in advance guys, Really appreciate your work!

Kind Regards

Stephen

 

[PCS]

Unfortunately we cannot reduce the price of a specification by £250. Instead, please post your specification here and we'll help you tweak it to within your budget range.

 

[stevemac]

Edit:

Chassis & Display
Vortex Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3610QM (2.30GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - Hard Disk
128GB KINGSTON V200 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (300MB/R, 190MB/W) (Special Offer)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Bluetooth & Wireless
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® N135 802.11N (150Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
USB Options
3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Firewire
1 X 1394a FIREWIRE PORT
Battery
Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 180W AC Adaptor
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Keyboard Language
INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Notebook Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM
Warranty
3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£69)
Dead Pixel Guarantee
1 Year Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs (£19)
Insurance
1 Month Free Laptop Insurance inc. Accidental Damage & Theft
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 7 to 9 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,350.00 including VAT and delivery.
thats the spec I'd like, if you could get this to around the 1200-1250 mark, I'll buy it at 11am in the morning. This spec suits me and after reading reviews, the 680m seems the better card, so i've ditched soundcard and Gamut screen to compensate. I don't really know what else to cut back on to be honest. 8gb Ram is a must, SSD is only a £20 upgrade, and I need those warranties.

I know its a huge ask to knock off £100 but if you can do it it would really help me out, and as I say, I can pay for this laptop today. Thanks in advance!

 

[stevemac]

Also, what is the battery life on this like? thanks!

 

[M3zxu]

The only thing I can see is to drop the warranty level to silver which saves you 64£, the next thing would already be to switch the GPU to hd7970m which should save you some money but comes with it's own drawback of having some issues with the immaturity of enduro on HD7970M.

 

[Agito]

I'd switch to GTX675M or GTX670M even. Unless you're planning on gaming a lot, you don't really need that GTX680M. Also, the amount of money you'd save by grading down your graphics card would probably allow you to get 16gb of ram if you're heavy graphics editing buff.

 

[M3zxu]

I wouldn't go the GTX675M road simply because it's "old" tech. Even 680M should prove to be a lot better value in the long run - not to mention that even HD7970M is about as fast as SLI GTX675Ms. And is very capable with OpenCL calculations. Only the drivers are a bit immature.