Dell Desktop Great Deal
 

If anyone is in the market for a new desktop computer there is a promo code out there for $350 off Dell Inspiron Desktops that you configure at the Dell site with a regular price of $999 or more.

When you are configuring at the Dell site you will see your price with probably a $100-$150 discount. As you configure your system and see the price change with each component remember to add back that discount you have been given to see when you reach the $999 threshold to then apply the $350 discount promo code.

This promo code is good until 1/8 or until 6,000 people have found it on the internet and used it (it is not on the Dell site or advedrtised).

Tonight I bought a $1000+ compuer for about $650.00. They also have free shipping right now.

Here is the promo code you would enter at the checkout page and then it would recalculate the price of your computer showing the $350.00 discount being taken off the price;

DT6M$B97BDKSVB

Get an Inspirion 1420 and get it with Ubuntu installed. $499 with no coupons and it simply works.

LOL!! Thanks BORED. I left out the most important part.

BTW- I ordered 2 gigs of RAM with my system but wanted to upgrade to 4 gigs. I was shocked when I did a google search to find I could buy 1 GIG sticks of PC2 5300 DDR2 SDRAM for just $ 17.99 each!!! For about forty bucks including sales tax and shipping I got my 2 gigs of RAM. I had thought I was just looking for a future upgrade but that price was too good to pass up.

After reading good things about AMD's dual core chips I took the plunge and got the AMD 64x2 5000+ dual core processor rather than the Intel ones.

The laptop I bought last spring has an Intel dual core processor and it is fine but I think for the money that AMD chip was a good deal. I plan on using this system for Video and Audio editing almost exclusively and that processor does well with those tasks from what I have read.

I also am anxious to get to try out Vista Premium since my laptop only has Vista basic and it is pretty much XP only with things moved to unfamilar places. At least with Vista Premim you get the cool transparent layers from what I understand.

Vista? Why? Have you read multitudes are going BACK to XP?

too bad there isn't one like that for a notebook

Yup...Id get my upgrades somewhere else.

I need to buy me a good lightweight small laptop...If anyone would happened to find a deal on a small lightweight with a lot of memory please let me know. I travel so much I use a laptop more than a desktop...and as old age creeps on me the lighter weight the better for me!
Mine is worn out...I gave my other one away so in the near future I need to start looking for one. I am not real smart when it comes to computers...

Dell Outlet
 

Thats a good deal. I have a Dell also that I bought refurbished from the Dell Outlet. Faantastic dea.

Desktop/ Tower... 80 gig HD + Microsoft Office + 1 CD Rom drive. + 1 CDRW burner. + 80 GB HD for about $430 . Normal retail value would have been about double that. This was about 3 or 4 years ago, but they still have pretty good deals today. If you're ok with getting a refurbished item (mine came with a 1 year warranty), you might want to check them out at www.dell.com/outlet.

How does Unbunto work?

lol....actually I wanted it to replace my aging laptop. It's a Sony Vaio 900mhz AMD, less than a gig ram and only 20gigs HD. The battery won't charge and even when it did it barely lasted an hour...its just a glorified DVD player now I take to dialysis every now and then

Personally, when it comes to desktops Id rather build my own. There is little difference usually between manufacturers of desktops anymore other than support. Find out what is inside before buying. Who made the MB. Who made the ram. Who made the video card if it has one. Does it have a sound card or is it built in?

The one I just bought I had configured with a 256mb NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT video card. Of course I don't know who the actual card mfg. is. I do, however, know the specs of that card and it has tow DVI connectors for digital monitors and supports dual monitors. The card is designed for High Def video, has open GL, etc.

I plan on using this sys for video editing as I am getting a Canon H20 High Definition (HDV) camcorder to replace the DV camcorder I lost in the Loch in Scotland. High Def video takes a lot of computing power and storage to handle so I really needed this new system.

I think if someone built my system they could beat the regular $1000 price but I don't think you could do it as configured for any better than the $650 I paid. You could if you did your oddball operating system but for us NORMAL folks who want Windows......LOL!!!

www.ubuntu.com

CC1> I have a GeForce card in my box. It is fantastic. I run a 20 inch monitor and no lag at all. It frees up my 512 Meg RAM for the system.

I need one. Think this is a better deal than buying a $599. Acer or e-Machine desktop from Walmart?

Do you remember the Yugo?

Think about a crash. Do you see the 18 yr old temp from Walmart helping you in 11 months if you have a problem?

Dell fills that gap?

Better than a box that is at least 4-5 months old when you buy it.

Dell started by custom building white boxes and still semi-build to order. There are those who hate them, but I have NO complaints and mine is almost 7 yrs old now.

Dell actually has some preconfingured systems at Sams Club and Wal Mart right now (also Staples and soon to be Best Buy).

They are good general systems and most have nice 17", 19" or even bigger LCD monitors bundled with them.

However I don't think most or any of those had firewire and they all had just an integrated graphics card. Plenty of hard drive, RAM, and a CD/DVD burner though. For 95% of people those systems are great and sell between $589 and $899.

I wanted a system specifically for editing High Definition video which needs a lot of "ooomph" in processing power, RAM, and graphics card capability.

For that reason the $350 off promo code worked better for me as I was able to forego a monitor, speakers, etc that comes with the store packaged and instead get a more powerful processor, lots of RAM, and a dedicated 256mb graphics card with support for dual monitors (digital DVI at that!). What I got for $650 is truly amazing.

If I had been buying a computer for just general use like internet surfing, digital photos, word processing, etc then one of the bundled packages at a store would have been fine.

Bored is correct about Wal Mart employees not being any help if anything goes wrong but even with service going down some in recent years Dell is still one of the best at customer support so if you bought a Dell at Wal Mart you wouldn't have to deal with them locally.

I will tell you it paid off for me buying my Toshiba laptop last spring at a Best Buy that has the ""Geek Squad" desk on site. I wanted to put more RAM in and the cover to the RAM would not unscrew. I took it to two little computer shops. One guy tried and couldn't open it and the other wanted fifty bucks just to try. I took it back to Best Buy and the guy at the Geek Squad desk had it open in a couple of minutes with no paperwork, no charge! I had bought it at Wal Mart I would have been out of luck and would have either been out fifty bucks or would have broken it trying to open it.

The next few months will be a good time to buy as the new Quad processors become the new big thing and prices will drop on what has been the top end most powerful dual core processors.

I did not realize WM sold Dell Machines. Acer and eMachines are about one step off the old Packard-Bell machines that could not be upgraded and were very problematic.

I would not get a free AOL CD from BB. Be glad the GS only turned one screw and did not do worse. Surprising they did not charged you $59.95 and keep your machine 3 days to do this.

UPDATE;

Best Buy starting to sell Dell Computers was kicked off in a big way today. The Sunday circular for Best Buy has a great deal on a Dell desktop package.

A nicely configured Dell computer with 2 gigs of RAM, DVD / CD burner, 320 gig hard drive, etc AND a 19" LCD monitor AND printer for just $599

If you have been waiting on a good deal for a good all around computer this is it.

It doesn't have the most powerful processor out now but it is no wimp. The Athlon 64x2 4000 is a dual core chip so many times better than the Intel Celeron chips you usually see in inexpensive systems.

This is a good time to buy because these great dual core chips are giving way to quad core chips right now so their price is going down.

Thats what I have in our multimedia PC at church. Great card. Most cards though today come with two DVI out or at least one and one vga with an adapter. What's next? blu-ray?

I've been a die hard Nvidia user for years. I never used ATI

Yes....there are reasons why machines like that are so cheap. LIke I said, check out who made the MB, the video card...if it even has one, sound card, ram

Who made the HD? Is it refurbished? How much space on the HD? How fast? etc etc...those cheap machines are adequate to get your mail and use a Word Processor....after that you need something better

I have a firewire "card" if anyone needs it. You have to have an onboard (mother board) port to connect it too

I have two nieces that want to buy a simple laptop any suggestions. Can't be complex one is a blond.:gotcha

I think Dell gives you either 6 mos or 12 mos telephone Tech Support with the purchase of a PC. I called them once when I got into trouble and they were pretty helpful.

Best Buy runs specials all of the time on Toshiba Satellite laptops that are great deals. For $599 they have had ones with 15.4 true brite screens, dual core processors, card readers, Vista Home Premium, CD / DVD burners, 1 gig RAM, good size hard drives, etc.

Lately Wal Mart & Sams Club have had good deals on Dell desktops and I know that they also have notebooks but I have not checked those deals out but I bet they are good.

In today's newspaper one of the three office supply chains (office max, office depot, or Staples) has a basic laptop for $399. It would be fine for surfing the internet and doing school work, etc but if one could afford the extra two hundred bucks the one I described first in this post is worth the difference in money.

What is interesting is that I had the option of choosing a 256 mb ATI graphics card but was glad I went with the NVIDIA when afterwrards I did some research.

It turns out that even though on paper the ATI has faster clocking, wider bandwith, etc and should perform better it does not. In comparison tests I found on the web in almost every application the 8600GT beat the ATI card.

Yes exactly SE. IF all she wants is simple stuff this might be fine. The computing power of these low end Laptops is not great. They are usually celeron/sempron chips, cheap video chips with little ram...however they might have pretty good battery life as a result