Hotter than Indian food: DELL SB Inspiron 8200 for under $1000

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Yo2

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Go to Dell SB, select notbooks, select Inspiron, select, featured systems select the system for $1199 (-$100) pply 10% off e-mail coupon (-$119.90) the total comes to $980+tx SHIPPED.

NOTE: This system only has 128MB RAM, but if you forego the $100MIR, pay an extra $75 and add the double free memory you get a whopping 512MB (i.e. 384MB for an extra $175) Now the whole thing will be around $1150+tx

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Keego

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Originally posted by: Nolan75
So are non-business users SOL?
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not exactly.
Make some cookies, put them up for sale (in your kitchen), now you're a small business.

 
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spanky

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Originally posted by: Kyguy
Originally posted by: Nolan75
So are non-business users SOL?
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not exactly.
Make some cookies, put them up for sale (in your kitchen), now you're a small business.
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or better yet, open up a lemonade stand.
 
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when ordering from small business, you can just put your name in the business name field. dell doesn't care. :)
 
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vladgur

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Yep, now you can deduct the area of your kitchen table from your monthly rent, cost of electricity used to cook the cookies and to run air conditioner while the cook was cooking the cookies. You can also deduct the premium sattelite package with skinemax and hbo since you used the cooking channel for home-business related training. Dont forget about the cost of that 40inch plasma HDTV without which you wouldnt be able to enjoy the cooking channel.

After all you have an intent to sell cookies for profit. THATS ALL THAT COUNTS
 
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the $300 instant discount is not stackable w/ the 10% public coupon code, but it seems that the one-time 10% off coupon code is stackable w/ $300 off.
 
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This is interesting. Because of the 10% of coupon and also the 2% ebates and 2%discover card reward. I am strongly encouraged to do the deal with the best configuration for screen, and graphic cards. (hard drive, rams, ect can be easily upgraded) any way because of the % discount you will save more if you configure a better items.


anyway this is how it goes

Inspiron 8200
Mobile Pentium® 4 Processor,1.7 GHz-M,15.0 Dell®
UltraSharp?

Qty: 1
Price: $1,898.00

Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 4:01:42 PM CDT
Catalog Number: 04 04
Inspiron 8200: Mobile Pentium® 4 Processor,1.7 GHz-M,15.0 Dell® UltraSharp? CM17BHM [220-5333]
Memory: 128MB,DDR,266M,1DIMM 128M1D [311-1350]
Video Card: ATI MOBILITY? RADEON? 9000 64MB DDR 4X AGP Graphics 64ATIM9 [320-0523]
Hard Drives: 30GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive 30GB [340-3447]
Floppy Drive: No Modular Floppy Drive NFD [340-6352]
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition WHXP [313-1041] [412-0310] [420-0744]
Network Adapters: Integrated Network Card INTNIC [430-0334]
Modem: Internal 56K Modem 56MDC [313-0832]
Fixed CD/DVD Drives: 8X Max DVD Drive 8XDVD [313-0758] [313-1370]
Bundle: Microsoft® Office XP Small Business with EducateU Training IXPESB [412-1605] [A0015607]
Digital Music: Dell Jukebox powered by MusicMatch MMBASE [412-0298]
Limited Warranty, Services and Support Options: 1 Year Limited Warranty plus 1 Year Mail-In Service T111YRR [950-3820] [950-9057]
Internet Access Options: 6 Months of MSN Internet Access Included MSN6XP [412-0255]
Mail-In Rebate Offer: Mail in Rebate (can not be combined with Free Memory Upgrade Offer) REBATE


1567.64 charged to credit card(tax is calculated for .09%)
- 31.35
-100rebate
= 1436.29( for a 15inch Ultra shape dell)

IF for (15in UXGA)

1469
-29.
-100
=1339.62



This is difinately a gamers desktop that you can bring too any lan party and not be look down upon. Radeon 9000 is good, much better then even most desktop GC.
Only thing would be that you might need to grab a 17in or greater flat panel monitor if you need it to be big, otherwise the graphic on this beautiful screen would still blow you away.

Dells ultrasharp screen

400:1 contrast ratio
180nits brightness
25ms response time Is this really good or what?
+/- 70 degrees horizontal viewing
+ 50 degrees vertical viewing
- 60 degrees vertical viewing

Only if this monitor were like a 16.1 inch I am sure I would be all over it.



 
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Yo2

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Originally posted by: Tot
This is interesting. Because of the 10% of coupon and also the 2% ebates and 2%discover card reward. I am strongly encouraged to do the deal with the best configuration for screen, and graphic cards. (hard drive, rams, ect can be easily upgraded) any way because of the % discount you will save more if you configure a better items.


anyway this is how it goes

Inspiron 8200
Mobile Pentium® 4 Processor,1.7 GHz-M,15.0 Dell®
UltraSharp?

Qty: 1
Price: $1,898.00

Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 4:01:42 PM CDT
Catalog Number: 04 04
Inspiron 8200: Mobile Pentium® 4 Processor,1.7 GHz-M,15.0 Dell® UltraSharp? CM17BHM [220-5333]
Memory: 128MB,DDR,266M,1DIMM 128M1D [311-1350]
Video Card: ATI MOBILITY? RADEON? 9000 64MB DDR 4X AGP Graphics 64ATIM9 [320-0523]
Hard Drives: 30GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive 30GB [340-3447]
Floppy Drive: No Modular Floppy Drive NFD [340-6352]
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition WHXP [313-1041] [412-0310] [420-0744]
Network Adapters: Integrated Network Card INTNIC [430-0334]
Modem: Internal 56K Modem 56MDC [313-0832]
Fixed CD/DVD Drives: 8X Max DVD Drive 8XDVD [313-0758] [313-1370]
Bundle: Microsoft® Office XP Small Business with EducateU Training IXPESB [412-1605] [A0015607]
Digital Music: Dell Jukebox powered by MusicMatch MMBASE [412-0298]
Limited Warranty, Services and Support Options: 1 Year Limited Warranty plus 1 Year Mail-In Service T111YRR [950-3820] [950-9057]
Internet Access Options: 6 Months of MSN Internet Access Included MSN6XP [412-0255]
Mail-In Rebate Offer: Mail in Rebate (can not be combined with Free Memory Upgrade Offer) REBATE


1567.64 charged to credit card(tax is calculated for .09%)
- 31.35
-100rebate
= 1436.29( for a 15inch Ultra shape dell)

IF for (15in UXGA)

1469
-29.
-100
=1339.62



This is difinately a gamers desktop that you can bring too any lan party and not be look down upon. Radeon 9000 is good, much better then even most desktop GC.
Only thing would be that you might need to grab a 17in or greater flat panel monitor if you need it to be big, otherwise the graphic on this beautiful screen would still blow you away.

Dells ultrasharp screen

400:1 contrast ratio
180nits brightness
25ms response time Is this really good or what?
+/- 70 degrees horizontal viewing
+ 50 degrees vertical viewing
- 60 degrees vertical viewing

Only if this monitor were like a 16.1 inch I am sure I would be all over it.
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I do own an Inspiron 8100 so here are a couple of comments on your deal:

1 - The Screen: SXGA is good enough, in fact the screens should be run at their default resolution and SXGA is 1400x1050 - even with the excellent 15" LCD 5the icons and everything rather small, going to UXGA (1600x1200)or better will maker things even smaller. If you can't see enough you gotta change from default to a lower resolution, which makes many things look very blurry - DEFINITELY stay with SXGA !!

Save $100

2 - The graphics card: Anything more than 32MB is only adviseable if you use a large external monitor with extreme resolution (1600x1200 or more and highest color resolution (32bit) (Most 17" LCDs still have only 1280x1024, and can live of 32MB easily - we are talking 21" CRTs at 1880x1440 or so to justify more than 32MB - moreover such high resolutions will still slow down many games to a level where it is no fun)

Save $250

3 - Memory: if you are gaming get the extra RAM 128 is not enough not even for casual XP users - I'd always get atleast 256, and if I can get another 256 for basically $100 I'd go for that.

Spend $175

4 - HDD - 30GB is probably big enough - if you want performance though, get the 40GB - it's like an extra $79 but it runs at 5400rpm rather than the 30s 4200 rpm

Spend $79

5 - Unless you are a movie fanatic, consider a CDRW rather than the DVD. I have one and I hardly use it, but since it's not removable I can't replace it with my removable CDRW which is much more useful to me.

Spend $50

So now for a little less money you would get a real performance system for gaming and real life...

Just my wellmeaning 0.02 :)

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2 - The graphics card: Anything more than 32MB is only adviseable if you use a large external monitor with extreme resolution (1600x1200 or more and highest color resolution (32bit) (Most 17" LCDs still have only 1280x1024, and can live of 32MB easily - we are talking 21" CRTs at 1880x1440 or so to justify more than 32MB - moreover such high resolutions will still slow down many games to a level where it is no fun)
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some of your points make sense but this one doesn't seem to fly. what does the amount of memory have to do with resolutions and what not? I don't see your point at all. Of course you would want the 64MB Radeon card if you want top performing games. The extra memory definately will not slow the game down. Perhaps I misuderstood what you were trying to say.

Looks like a good deal on a great lappy though. I'm thinking about it but I don't really like how the dell laptops feel though. for the price though I might be willing to try it out.
 
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Tot

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Dell Ultra sharp is for its ultra fast response time. 25ms.

Therefore for a extreme gamer, this screen is definatly a go. A good screen like this cost alot.

In any case you would see that if you configure 15SXGA the cost would be 1286 after rebate. While the 15ultrasharp is1436 and 15uxga is 1339. For the price difference of about 50 bucks you get the uxga, and for another 150 you get the ultrasharp which would totally make its a monitor that dwarfs even most 500 dollars 15inch lcd.

Anyway thats just my 2 cents.

Most will configure for the lowest price configuration, and they will still save. But for people who are in the market for a ultrasharp, now is probably a good time to buy. Considering the saving is in %. Another thing, I calculated the price at 9% sales tax, therefore your price should difinately be at least 10-50 dollars cheaper.
 
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Yo2

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Originally posted by: step-dawg
2 - The graphics card: Anything more than 32MB is only adviseable if you use a large external monitor with extreme resolution (1600x1200 or more and highest color resolution (32bit) (Most 17" LCDs still have only 1280x1024, and can live of 32MB easily - we are talking 21" CRTs at 1880x1440 or so to justify more than 32MB - moreover such high resolutions will still slow down many games to a level where it is no fun)
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some of your points make sense but this one doesn't seem to fly. what does the amount of memory have to do with resolutions and what not? I don't see your point at all. Of course you would want the 64MB Radeon card if you want top performing games. The extra memory definately will not slow the game down. Perhaps I misuderstood what you were trying to say.

Looks like a good deal on a great lappy though. I'm thinking about it but I don't really like how the dell laptops feel though. for the price though I might be willing to try it out.
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It's very simple - in order to achiev a certain resolution at a certain color depth one needs a certain amount of memory:

e.g. 1024x768x16bit=12,582912 bits = 1.6MB that's all

Using the same1400x1050x32=47,040,00 = 5.8MB

And even 1880x1440 requires only about 11MB.

Even considering that some of the video processing that's going on may take up some memory, 32MB is plenty and 64 is overkill.

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Yo2

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Originally posted by: Tot
Dell Ultra sharp is for its ultra fast response time. 25ms.

Therefore for a extreme gamer, this screen is definatly a go. A good screen like this cost alot.

In any case you would see that if you configure 15SXGA the cost would be 1286 after rebate. While the 15ultrasharp is1436 and 15uxga is 1339. For the price difference of about 50 bucks you get the uxga, and for another 150 you get the ultrasharp which would totally make its a monitor that dwarfs even most 500 dollars 15inch lcd.

Anyway thats just my 2 cents.

Most will configure for the lowest price configuration, and they will still save. But for people who are in the market for a ultrasharp, now is probably a good time to buy. Considering the saving is in %. Another thing, I calculated the price at 9% sales tax, therefore your price should difinately be at least 10-50 dollars cheaper.
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25ms response time is definitely nice, however I still don't get how you will be able to see anything at 1600x1200 resolution on a 15" screen. Everything is tiny, and if you try to run the game at that resolution it's slow. If you lower the resolution things become rather blurry and you definitely would not have needed an "Ultrasharp" display. 1400x1050 of the SXGA is also small, but one can get used to it. I have an "Ultrasharp Flatpanel display" and it's very very good, but to me the "Ultrasharp" notebook screen is $200 for an annoyance.

Yo

P.s.: I have 20/15 eyesight

;)
 
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Ok, a few points:

a. Currently using a DELL Inspiron 8000 with UXGA screen - IT IS WORTH IT!!! and easily readable, more so then my 19" Sony FP , especially using clear type. Can't comment on the UltraSharp as my 8200 ordered with the last 10% off coupon hasn't shipped yet.

b. DO NOT upgrade your memory through dell. Already ordered and received 2 -512 DDR sticks for 179.00 a piece, upgrade from dell for 1 512 stick was 410.00 from 128, now I have a spare 128 also.

c. If your ordering the 8200, do yourself a favor and run out to CompUsa and pick up the firewire drive on sale, and install your games there, runs faster then the internal drive (at least my 5400 60gb), and is plug and play, for 49.00 bucks you can't beat it, trying to get my gf to buy me a third one so we get the rebates.

d. GET THE SERVICE PLAN at least 2-3 years, the machine is awsome, but I have had to have a keyboard, and flat panel, and a dvd drive replaced (none completely failed just started to fail so laptop was still usable the whole time). Every time they were out within 48 hours.
 
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It's very simple - in order to achiev a certain resolution at a certain color depth one needs a certain amount of memory:

e.g. 1024x768x16bit=12,582912 bits = 1.6MB that's all

Using the same1400x1050x32=47,040,00 = 5.8MB

And even 1880x1440 requires only about 11MB.

Even considering that some of the video processing that's going on may take up some memory, 32MB is plenty and 64 is overkill.

Yo
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sure, if you aren't going to do any gaming, which requires more gc memory for high quality textures.

re: Mark Rein's comments about "Ultra High" texture detail in ut2k3: the option isn't even enabled in the ingame gui b/c it peaks, on one map, at requiring 180mb for the textures. Since NOBODY can swing this currently, they disabled the option for now (although it can be turned on in the .ini).
 
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Originally posted by: huesmann
That's why you use Large Characters and Large Icons...duh.
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yep, on my i8200 uxga, 1) large icons 2) 120dpi instead of 96 dpi. texts are sharp and pix are beautiful :). if i can get rid of this, definately go for the ultra sharp uxga...less battery time, but i plug in anyways. also, uxga has .19 pixels as opposed to sxga's .21 pixels (check dell's website to verify). enjoy the lappie, but it is a desktop replacement and will be ~7-8 lbs heavy.
 
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Yo2

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Originally posted by: lweisenb
Ok, a few points:

a. Currently using a DELL Inspiron 8000 with UXGA screen - IT IS WORTH IT!!! and easily readable, more so then my 19" Sony FP , especially using clear type. Can't comment on the UltraSharp as my 8200 ordered with the last 10% off coupon hasn't shipped yet.

b. DO NOT upgrade your memory through dell. Already ordered and received 2 -512 DDR sticks for 179.00 a piece, upgrade from dell for 1 512 stick was 410.00 from 128, now I have a spare 128 also.

c. If your ordering the 8200, do yourself a favor and run out to CompUsa and pick up the firewire drive on sale, and install your games there, runs faster then the internal drive (at least my 5400 60gb), and is plug and play, for 49.00 bucks you can't beat it, trying to get my gf to buy me a third one so we get the rebates.

d. GET THE SERVICE PLAN at least 2-3 years, the machine is awsome, but I have had to have a keyboard, and flat panel, and a dvd drive replaced (none completely failed just started to fail so laptop was still usable the whole time). Every time they were out within 48 hours.
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On a.: I disagree. I am perfectly happy with SXGA and do not see any value in UXGA or more in particular if I have to use large fonts and large icons - That's contrary to the idea of a good deal if I spend #200 on something I am essentially not using.

On b.: The upgrade from 128 to 512 would cost effectively $175 (75 to go from 128 to 256 and $100 as in no MIR to double to 512). I agree that generally there are better sources for memory, but this one is very sweet. Currently you can't find 384MB of Laptop DDR RAM for anywhere near $175.

On c: good point Inspiron has firwire and it works very well

On d.: Good point too, but it makes price comparison more difficult if it's included in the deal posting, the deal does not look so hot, though an extra 2 years is only about $99 more.

Yo
 
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