Help with laptop purchase

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I've been asked to price a laptop for someone I work with. She will be using
it at home mostly for work-related projects. I must confess, Dell's pricing
strategy has me boggled. Our IT folks would prefer she get a Latitude D600
(that's their current configuration and they can easily image her hard
drive). Since this is a home purchase we of course have the 2 options of
home or small business, both of which have different pricing schemes going
on or we can utilize our "educational 10% discount" (applies to Inspiron,
not Latitude, btw) were somehow, even when she included the currently
offered rebates and upgrades, the bottom line cost was over $1K more than
what I got from the web last night.

What is the difference between the two?

Benefits of M processors over P4?

I couldn't get a simple answer from the sales rep.

Thanks,

 

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Hello,

Have you considered picking up a laptop from the Dell Outlet? You can
usually get a really good configuration much cheaper than the regular Dell
store.

Alot of times you can also get free shipping and other free stuff or
add-ons. The systems always come with a 1-year warranty.

Give that a shot and I bet it will beat your 10% educational discount as
well.


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"gardenia" <patgaz@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> I've been asked to price a laptop for someone I work with. She will be
using
> it at home mostly for work-related projects. I must confess, Dell's
pricing
> strategy has me boggled. Our IT folks would prefer she get a Latitude D600
> (that's their current configuration and they can easily image her hard
> drive). Since this is a home purchase we of course have the 2 options of
> home or small business, both of which have different pricing schemes going
> on or we can utilize our "educational 10% discount" (applies to Inspiron,
> not Latitude, btw) were somehow, even when she included the currently
> offered rebates and upgrades, the bottom line cost was over $1K more than
> what I got from the web last night.
>
> What is the difference between the two?
>
> Benefits of M processors over P4?
>
> I couldn't get a simple answer from the sales rep.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

 

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Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

I did that just a few weeks ago when I replaced my aging home built
computer. I've discussed buying from the outlet, but she's been burned
buying refurb stuff before.

Thanks for your input

JLA ENTERPRISES TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATION wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Have you considered picking up a laptop from the Dell Outlet?
> You can usually get a really good configuration much cheaper than the
> regular Dell store.
>
> Alot of times you can also get free shipping and other free stuff or
> add-ons. The systems always come with a 1-year warranty.
>
> Give that a shot and I bet it will beat your 10% educational discount
> as well.
>