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E1705 best deal i can get?
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ Duo Proc T2250 (1.73GHz/533MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® XP Media Center 2005 Edition with re-installation CD
LCD PANEL 17 inch Wide Screen XGA+ Display
MEMORY 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
HARD DRIVE 80GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
OPTICAL DRIVE 24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7900 GS
WIRELESS OPTIONS Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card (54Mbps)
BATTERY OPTIONS 53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
HARDWARE WARRANTY 1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr Mail-In Service, and 1Yr HW Warranty Support
This configuration comes out to $1358. After a 20% off coupon applied I come up with $1086.40 + Tax /w Free Shipping.
Is this the very best deal I can get on the system .. the 20% off coupon? Any other advice, tips, whatever on buying you might want to throw my way is appreciated. Thanks in advanced guys.
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check the dell outlet. I think you can save around 200 dollers if you don't mind it being refurbished
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Hmm, as long as it has the 7900 GS I don't mind. Problem is finding the darn thing configured with it.
PS: DOH! Looks like this weeks 20% coupon has expired. NOOO!
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Yea... I was looking at the outlet for one with a 7900GS and gave up...
I found the coupon was the best (I tried using some other things but didn't come close to the coupon!)
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I can't imagine buying one of those things without a 7900 GS .. I am shocked by the amount returned with the crap video cards in them. E1505 is such a better option if you aren't looking for the performance.
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Yea... the only reason I GOT a 17 inch laptop was FOR the vid card...
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Yep, same here.
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Best deal.. well if you want it now.. that's probably as good as it gets. You could try Ebay - sometimes you can find a better price there. But it's not my favourite place to buy big ticket items though due to the number of scam artists that hang out there. update: it does look like the 20% coupon is now dead.
The usual advice would be to wait 2 - 4 weeks for the next big Dell coupon to come around again. In the past you would see a 30% or even 40% coupon almost monthly. But in the shadow of flat growth & informal SEC scrutiny, Dell announced (mid July) that it would eliminate 80% of it's special deals, starting with notebooks. So it's now anyone's guess as to what we'll see for Dell coupons from now on. I'm waiting a few weeks myself to see if they repeat a $750 off coupon. If they don't, I'll go with HP instead. Dell notebooks are only bargains when you have the big coupons.
More info - http://www.canada.com/topics/technol...e800709&k=5438
Dell coupon history (jpeg chart) - http://www.savefile.com/files/35858
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You're not gonna like this "PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ Duo Proc T2250 (1.73GHz/533MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache)" but then you can always upgrade to Merom when it gets cheaper. As for the price, I think you will be ok. Too bad you couldn't configure 512 MB ram instead of 1 GB.
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its kind of disgusting looking at that chart .... 20% off sucks compared to most everything they've done in the past.