is this a good deal on a dell laptop?

[eshtog]

Inspiron 8100 (Service Tag No. 7PTFD11)
Dell Inspiron 8100 Notebook: Intel® Pentium® III Processor 1.13GHz-M 15in UltraXGA TFT Display

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System Price $2,319.00
Promotion Discount ($500.00)
Discounted Price $1,819.00
Promotion End Date Apr 25, 2002

Memory: 512MB SDRAM (2 DIMMs)
Floppy Drive: 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive
Hard Disk Drive: 30 GB EIDE Hard Drive (4200 RPM)
Video: 64MB 4XAGP ATI Mob Radeon 7500
NoteBook Screen: 15 inch UXGA Notebook Screen
Modem: Internal 56K Capable V.90 + 10/100 Mini-PCI Combo
CD Read-Write Drive: 8X/4X/32X CD-RW
Software: Software
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft® Office XP Professional
AOL 7.0 Internet Software
Microsoft Money 2002
Music Match ver. 6.0 Software
Norton Antivirus® 2002
Picture Studio Software - Dell Edition
Misc: Shipping Material
Shipping Material
Keyboard on Notebook
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Dell Resource CD

 

[aphex]

First off, dont by the RAM from dell, get it from crucial...

Seems a little high for only a 1.13ghz... I got a 1.0ghz 8100 last week for $1250 after rebate with pretty similiar specs... Only difference in mine was 128 ram, 1.0ghz PIII, and a DVD instead of a cdrw

 

[DAWeinG]

Hmm I'd go full blow Dell Inspiron 8200 with the p4-M if I was going to spend that much money. A loaded dell i8100 can be had much lower, than that. Do a search in the fs/t forum. Ebay prices would be second lowest I believe. There was also a deal on a dell i8100 in the hot deals forum for less than $1000 but not as loaded.

 

[MazerRackham]

That seems high to me... maybe you shouldn't get the 512MB ram from Dell since they overcharge on that quite a bit. It's easy to install more ram yourself in Dell notebooks (I've done it). You want the UXGA screen too? That's 1600x1200 resolution on a 15" screen... pretty small pixels. I would go with the XGA 15" at 1400x1050, the 1.0GHz instead of 1.13, and save myself some $$$. But that's just my opinion FWIW....

 

[RossMAN]

I agree with aphexII and DAWeinG.