Will price of G1s go down?

I really want my G1s but i probably wont come up with the money until maybe september or I could wait until like christmas time to definitely have money. Do you think the price will drop soon, by september, or before new years?

also who should i order from? Gentech, 1toppc, xotic, excalibur? in terms of availability, fast processing, and fast shipping (from the website not by ups), and customer service

 

same here, kinda wonderin when the price will drop, plus they have this promotion thing now...

 

I dont' think so.. whenever Asus release their models... prices keeps pretty much the same. Even if you buy an older Core 2 Duo laptop, price is still not change much.

Only time will tell, and hopefully when the new intel chip come out, the G1s price will drop.

So my recommendation is : if you really like it, save some money and buy it. Everything has its cost.

I remember back in January when I first build my Z84J it cost me almost 1700$ and now.. with the price drop in spare parts.. it would cost 1400$ to build or less.

 

They rarely ever. The only reason it may drop it price is if its refresh came out, for example, the G1p stayed at 1999 for quite a while when it was released, went to 1899 a few months late. Until the G1s came out, it stayed at that price, and when the G1s was released, then the price of the G1p dropped.

The Z84 is a barebone though, so its not really fair to compare

 

hmm so waiting probably wont be worth it so i might as well get it now i guess then when ever i can get the money that is. thanks.

 

New Intel chip? Enlighten me. Or are you just referring to whatever is beyond the Santa Rosa?

 

ASUS's laptops rarely come down in price - usually by no more than 5-10% of the original cost and only when new models are released. Instead of lowering prices of older models down to a bargain, ASUS simply discontinues the model until it's no longer available.

Khanhfat is referring to Intel's newest CPU, called Penryn, which is the successor to Merom. Penryn's desktop counterpart is called Wolfdale. Penryn is designed to be used on Santa Rosa's successor, called Bearlake...with one of Bearlake's biggest features is the use of DDR3 system memory. the Penryn CPU will be the first mobile CPU to be based off of Intel's 45nm architecture. It is purportedly able to consume less energy and expel less heat without sacrificing power. Intel can also at the same time incorporate more features on the CPU with the freed space.

Regarding the other posters who wish to wait - if you can wait, do so. Everything becomes cheaper over time and everything gains more features over time. The only problem is that you can literally wait forever because everything will always see improvements - this applies to cars, electronics, and even women today with new advances in plastic surgery and lipo. Ok, maybe the last analogy was in bad taste.

But's here's the smackdown about what a standard laptop will be like in a few years:

1) IPS LCD screens with LED backlight featuring several fold enhanced color gamut and no light leakage
2) Adoption of 64-bit OS's where all laptops now come standard with 32GB DDR3 RAM
3) Nvidia GeForce 9800M GT
4) Full adoption of solid-state drives with capacity starting at 64GB
5) Biometric reader
6) 7MP camera
7) HDMI 2.0 output
8) eSATA 6.0 Gbit/s ports
9) USB 4.0 ports
the list goes on...

So if you can wait, wait. But always remember that while you can wait for a million trains to pass by, you're going to have to eventually catch a ride.

EDIT: Yesterday I opened my fiancee's old laptop (of 6 years) packet of recovery CDs and inside, there were brochures to buy accessories. So in 2001, you could buy a crappy 18" flat panel LCD with 25ms response time and 250:1 contrast ratio for ... $900. Today you can buy a 19" LCD monitor for $170.

 

Heavy duty SSD's at 150gb+ are needed, and that will LAST for the same hours an HHD will.. Also, they need to have transfer rates above 10,000rpm discs. Apparently they are getting the speed, but the longevity is still iffy.

LED's will completely replace all backlighting for LCD by 2009. I doubt they'll be dynamic until 2010 or so though, which is what they really need to be in order to get the contrast ratio very much more than what we have now.

HDMI 1.3 better last until 2010, minimum. And nVidia 9x series will be here pretty fast, end of 07.

 

I was exaggerating but I did realize I should've put nVidia 11800 instead of 9800.

As per HDMI, it is rather interesting how often they update their specs, especially now that the HDTV market is booming. When it was stale, the spec was unchanged for a long time but now they've released multiple refreshes in a short period of time.

SSD durability: at least 10 years with today's technology - http://www.tfot.info/articles.php?itemId=42/59/

But that's far from the theoretical limit: http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

With a 64GB SSD, if you continuously write data at 80 MB/sec continuously 24/7, the SSD will not fail from writing onto itself too many times until 51 years later.

EDIT: Here's MTRON's 32GB SSD: http://www.mtron.net/files/MSD_S_spec.pdf - If you overwrite the entire SSD 3 times a day, the SSD will still last 81 years. HHDs will fail mechanically after a decade or two at most.