yeah, it is :\..
especially for laptops... hard to find good prices.. all the same..
but i'f found ncix.com ... pretty cheap for some stuff..
and the warranty is nice..
my brother bought 4 IBM drives..
1 was bogus, so he returned it... well, actually they sent one first, when he got it, he sent it back... all at their expenses... then he saw the 3 others he had left made way more noise than the other 3.. so he exchanged the other 3 without any probs
but they don't have what laptops I was looking at, at the moment..