Buying From Manufacture Isn't Always The Best Thing?

I've been searching around for over a year now to replace my Asus Z71V laptop I purchased sometime ago. It was based upon the old Intel Centrino technology using Intel Pentium-M processor. As I search, I have a certain requirement in mind and recently settle on a one. I will go more into it once the laptop arrive. That will be a different blog.

For this particular post, it is about what I noticed and found. In the past, I had the mentality purchasing items directly from the manufacture is usually the best. Might not be the best price wise, but at least you get fresh new stuff inside. It turned out that is now always the case.

Let's take the Sony CW Series as an example. Apparently it is better to purchase it from retailer like BestBuy or online giant like Amazon. While the price might be comparable, the specification within the laptop differ.

If you purchase the Sony CW directly from Sonystyle.com using CTO (custom built) or pre-configured laptop, you are given a lower specification than if you were to purchase it from another source.

Sonystyle.com will give you the Sony CW Series with nVidia 310m video card and a lower resolution screen. If you purchase it directly from Bestbuy or Amazon, for about the same price (if not cheaper), you get a more powerful video card nVidia GT 330m and a much better LCD screen resolution of 1600 x 900!.

That is the same with Sony E/EB Series and other product/laptop from Sony. At Bestbuy, these are the wildly popular purchase in recent months. It comes with Intel latest 2010 i5 Core process (which is true 2 cores), a blu-ray player, a higher resolution LCD screen and the nVidia GT 330m video card. How does this laptop flair with gamers, totally rocks!!! I highly recommend this setup for anyone to is interested in purchasing a sub-$1000 laptop!

Cheers!