Need a laptop deal for XPS

Ok so a friend is buying a Dell XPS, because she wants its to look cute(I told her its a waste of money, but whatever). Basically I need help trying to find her a deal, right now I cant find any for the XPS series, only deal I can get is 600 off by calling Dell and requesting it. If anyone knows some online coupons or stuff like that, that would be great. Most likely she wants a dell, but suggestions for "cute and colored" laptops are welcomed as well. Is there any way to personalize laptops aftermarket? That would be really helpful too. I am trying to convince her to buy a cheap nice system, and do it aftermarket, but I need something simple, its a girl we are dealing with. Thanks guys.

I'm sorry, i don't buy laptops. I only win them. :)

techbargains.com
fatwallet.com


dell coupons every single week... 20% off and such.

also powernotebooks.com has decent prices on a huge range of laptops and newegg.com has somewhat cheap acer laptops.

the best deals are still the rebates at office max of compusa or whatever (last week they had a 17"/DVD-RW/80gb amd64 for $699).

If sshe really wants colored laptops, alienware/falcon northwest/other super expensive boutique crap look better.

Alienware (http://www.alienware.com) has the best looking systems I've seen, but they ain't cheap.

thanks guys Im going to check those sites out. Only question i still really have is about aftermarket customizing. Any of you guys know bout that stuff?

am i surrounded by computer geeks?:)

www.cyberpowerpc.com

Made more for gaming, but who wouldn't want a purple laptop.

thanks guys Im going to check those sites out. Only question i still really have is about aftermarket customizing. Any of you guys know bout that stuff?

its possible, but not really. unlike ome of those phone faceplates, there's not much demand for it on laptops, and none of the faceplates would work on more than 1 line of laptops anyways, which would surely be discontinued and replaced within a year.

some places sell full coverage sticker type things (at least they did), but those seemed like a true nightmare to work with. Unless you want to unscrew the laptop chasis, tape, primer, paint, and coat it yourself, I can't think of much you can do. PCs do have aftermarket lights/kits/cases, but not laptops that i know of, at least not to any large degree.

Just get a used one off eBay and spraypaint a "cute" color.

Hey, I painted (actually I used automotive vinyl dye) a monitor blue to match the case on the PC I built. Just don't get paint in the holes or on anything electronic. It looks great. :oink: