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Dell Home $750 off $1499+ Select Inspiron & Dimension

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Originally posted by: Foghorn
The base 700m would be a great laptop for her. Nice and compact too. I'd get the 512MB ram though.
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Well you can pay Dell $50 to upgrade to 512MB RAM, or you can order a 256MB DIMM from Newegg for ~$22 and do it yourself. Or I can order a 512MB DIMM (for 768MB total) for $45.

I never pay for RAM upgrades for any pre-built computer I buy; they're the easiest aftermarket upgrade to perform.
 
Yes, the 4700 is a really sad deal. I got my 8400 a couple of months ago for less. I just tried to configure the 4700 with the same options and monitor that I got on my 8400. The price comes out to $1664 before the coupon. You can't even get a modem if you get a TV tuner card - how dumb is that. My 8400 was $750 right on the money.
 
damn dell.:| if they didn't go change the configurations and jack up the prices I would've gotten a 700m that I needed by mid july. Off to ebay I go
 
Aren't those two Inspiron 6000 deals with Pentium Ms fairly decent? You get a nicely configured laptop with Wi-Fi, 512MB RAM, 40-60GB HD and a DVD burner for $800 - $850? $750 would be a nicer deal, but those who do need a laptop might find this acceptable.

I wish they didn't try to push a 3-year warranty on one of those configs. They might relax that requirement later if the sale does not go well, like they did last time. 11,000 systems is a large number to sell when most Hot Deal'ers are not impressed and these sales have become very frequent.
 
The $1556 base Inspiron 6000 is probably the best one there.

You get a 1.6Ghz Pentium M 730 processor (with 2MB Cache and 533mhz FSB), 15.4" WSXGA+ TFT ($125 value), 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon X300 PCIe x16 graphics ($69 value, 256MB DDR2 SDRAM, 40GB HD, 8x DVD+/-RW with dual layer write capabilities ($99 value), Intel 2200 802.11b/g wireless, and 1 year warranty ($29 value).

It's $806 shipped after coupon.
 
Originally posted by: cyberia
Aren't those two Inspiron 6000 deals with Pentium Ms fairly decent? You get a nicely configured laptop with Wi-Fi, 512MB RAM, 40-60GB HD and a DVD burner for $800 - $850? $750 would be a nicer deal, but those who do need a laptop might find this acceptable.

I wish they didn't try to push a 3-year warranty on one of those configs. They might relax that requirement later if the sale does not go well, like they did last time. 11,000 systems is a large number to sell when most Hot Deal'ers are not impressed and these sales have become very frequent.
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mine comes out to around $805 shipped after tax. so i say its pretty decent. $35 big bucks from ebay. 2% dpa and 3% fatcash from chubby wallet.
 
Originally posted by: bearxor
More than likely, we will see it limited to these specific configs from now on.
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Luckily you can still customize slightly (esp if you add ram, better proc, better screen etc)
 
what a joke.. Dell is banking on the fact that ppl see $750 off $1499 and they're jumping on the "deal" but the configurations suck and the prices have gone up.. I bet alot of ppl will fall for this though..
 
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