I ordered one from Mwave and also noticed that the price jumped after they were sold out. The word on the street is that these 6-cell batteries really do make a substantial difference which is why I went with them when they had it in stock.
On another note, Mwave asks you to fax them a front/back copy of your credit card, drivers license and a written note stating that you ordered the laptop for 'theft prevention reasons,' which is insane. I yelled at the customer service agent and they were able to put it through without the hassle. I don't know if I will continue to do business with someone that uses 20th century measures to verify an order made in the 21st century.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I ordered one from Mwave and also noticed that the price jumped after they were sold out. The word on the street is that these 6-cell batteries really do make a substantial difference which is why I went with them when they had it in stock.
On another note, Mwave asks you to fax them a front/back copy of your credit card, drivers license and a written note stating that you ordered the laptop for 'theft prevention reasons,' which is insane. I yelled at the customer service agent and they were able to put it through without the hassle. I don't know if I will continue to do business with someone that uses 20th century measures to verify an order made in the 21st century.