Thank you Mythlogic!

There are numerous threads here praising Mythlogic, but that shouldn't prevent me from creating my own .


Anyways, after reading all the super positive reviews, I decided to go with them for the w230st (Chaos 1313 is what they call them). The other reasons I went with them was:

1. They are one of the very few ones offering the 4702mq and the 840 pro mSATA 512GB SSDs options. I badly wanted both.
2. I am in Canada, and their shipping costs are crystal clear with brokerage included. You only have to pay taxes when it arrives at your door.

10 minutes after putting the order in, Jeff e-mails me and says I have selected the RAID 0 option with one drive. He recommended to go with single drive, since RAID won't provide much of an advantage. Now, I have never dealt with resellers before, but the level of honesty really impressed me. If this happened with any of the big guns. I am sure they would try to sell me another drive and insist on keeping the RAID 0 option. He also offered to pre-load Win 8 pro without activation (since I have my own key I didn't select any OS) so that I don't have to go through the trouble right after receiving the machine. Again, I have never had such awesome treatment for buying a machine from the big companies.

Their turnaround time is 12-15 business days, and all through they updated the order status regularly. The shipping was SUPER FAST! It came to Toronto from Ann Arbor in one day! Of course, the shipping cost is expensive with brokerage fee and all (it was around 150 by DHL for me), but try to configure the same system with any of the Canadian Resellers (Reflex, Eurocom etc.), you'll pretty much end up paying almost the same.

The packaging was professional, the machine is absolutely flawless, they throw in a very good quality mousepad and a t shirt.


HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

 

How much was shipping to canada?

 

150, which includes brokerage and duty. You have to pay the tax at door ( I am in Ontario, so 13% tax for me).