Dell just totally screwed me.... what do I do?

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: flot
Unless you have the money to blow, or some VERY VERY specific need, it's stupid to buy a $2000 computer these days.

I say that having easily spent $10,000, maybe $20,000 on computer gear over the last 15 years. I still have the $600 "photo printer" I bought in 1995, and just threw away the $400 486dx2/66 chip I bought in ... 93? something like that. (for the last 10 years it has been floating around my desk drawer)

Boy were those some "winner" purchases. The printer was a POS from the day I got it... the CPU obviously I kept for about 9 months before it was completely obsolete. Just the other day I ran across a receipt for $350 for a 20 gig hard drive.

$500 will buy you a very usable desktop.
$1000 will buy you a very usable laptop.

Either one will be worth HALF of that in 2 years and will be dramatically eclipsed by whatever is new at that point in time.

Spend the $1000 now, and two-three years from now spend another $1000. Overall, you will have done much better for yourself.

PS: For the record, I've started buying a new PC every 2 years, I'll get whatever magic deal $350-500 will buy me at Dell, which a year ago was a P4 1.8, and in another year will probably be a 3.5 ghz system - I'll never need to upgrade anything, and I'll rarely need to worry about components failing. Upgrades I can sneak in as I see fit, but so far the only thing I've done to my latest system was add a DVD-burner. I don't play any hardcore games on my PC, so for the $ I just can't go wrong this way.

PPS: I could totally afford a $2000 computer - but I've learned to realize that that $2000 could be spent a lot better in a lot of other ways.

I appreciate the info. I am looking at getting a quality high speed laptop though. This one should last me for quite some time, and since it uses desktop chips, I can always pop a p4 in it in a couple of years to keep it up to par with speed. I appreciate everyones opinion in this thread, but I am ready to ditch my 400mhz lappy and get a quality one.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Damn oh well I guess you could split it between 2 cc's then.

Fortunately your new 9100 order will have UXGA vs SXGA, DVD Burner instead of DVD/CD-RW.

Best of luck with this MONSTER laptop.

Are you going to ask your parents to REFUSE DELIVERY of the 9100 already in transit?

Yea, I tried to get a hold of them, but no one is home. The laptop just shipped this morning at 1:30AM so I have a few days. The coupon ends tomorrow though.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Dude you're getting a Dell. And a lube free butt reaming.

Dells are for grandmas and little kids. And servers.
And always, always listen to RossMAN when it concerns the almighty dollar. He's a clone of Clark Howard, grown and raised just for us AT members. :beer:

 

[ElFenix]

i had a horrible time getting dell to make my system right. their website screwed up and said there was a 4th year of warranty and complete care and some other things, and when i get the order thing i start reading the DOMS codes and none of that is on there. took me 3 phone calls to make it right, the 3rd one i finally get some guy who wasn't on vacation last week and actually knows what is going on, still have to talk to him for more than an hour to get it right. at least all the people in cancel/reenter seem to speak english, or, they did last june. of course, he could tell i was reading DOMS codes and refering to all sorts of dell internal stuff so he knew i knew what was going on.

 

[neonerd]

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