Anyone know a good place to get barebones laptops?

Hello everyone.

Well, after a year and a half of constant messing around with my piece of crap laptop, I've decided to throw in the towel and try to move on to something else. The laptop I have has a lot of decent parts (pretty much everything needed for building a laptop plus 2x 512mb GeForce graphics cards), however its screen is dying, and it constantly overheats. To fix it I'm looking at $200+ just for parts, and I'd kind of like to find something a little smaller.

I've checked all the usual suspects (Newegg, Tigerdirect, Zipzoomfly), but none of them seem to offer much in the area of barebones laptops. I was just wondering if anyone knew any places with a decent selection, especially if there is a barebones model supporting greater than 4gb of ram, or dual graphics cards, or comes with no graphics cards at all (I already have them, so what's the point of spending extra).

The few I've been able to find seem pretty generic and don't really offer anything that would set one apart from another, and none of them have any of the three selling points listed above. If anyone could point me in the right direction for something like this it would really be appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Pharrox

 

after checking google for barebone laptops it seems dell has the best prices http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/deals/popular_laptops?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ST=barebones%20laptop&dgc=ST&cid=45062&lid=1195626&acd=52183,8,0,80318002,711704809,1278987699,,16991982,5018290461 at least you can have them customize them.:-D
sorry iasn't much help.

 

this might not be what you want but the Toshiba site has a range of 700 Portege laptops you can configure.