i9300 swap deals for newer i9400? - Page 2

Mine serves me very well indeed.

Some people don't think before posting.

My I9300 > *times 11ty billionty.

Paid 252.22 for the 7800GTX - 240.00 for the sale on my 6800GO = $12.22 for the 7800GTX

Paid 140.00 for the 1.8 @ 2.4Ghz - 125.00 for the sale on my 1.6Ghz = $15.00 for the 2.4Ghz

So actually.. $12.22 + $15.00 = $27.22 for both!

He got insane prices for his 1.6ghz Pentium M and his 6800go on ebay.

I DID! I DID!

Warranty parts are issued thru Dell Spare Parts. When a technician needs parts to repair a system they are shipped from Dell Spare Parts. When your system is sent in for warranty work it is sent to the same facility that houses Dell Spare Parts.

By your logic... when a person buys a laptop, they automatically keep a replica of my system around until my warranty expires. Well, things don't work like that and my system would've cost about 30% more. They couldn't offer the steap discounts they do if they kept THAT MUCH in back stock parts.

And once those parts become obsolete, they would have next to NO resale value outside of the company. And trying to get 1-piece remakes of parts from their OE channel would be too costly.

And what happens when I call Dell at the end of a 5yr warranty and ask for an additional extension... will they have to keep that clone in a warehouse just for me even longer?

All I know is that about a month or so before my 3 year warrant runs out, im predicting a very solid floor meeting my laptop from a decent height at a very fast speed. The worst case scenario is i get an equivelant laptop back. The best case scenario is that they give me the latest and greatest Insprion 9800 with the new Geforce 8200 GTX go 512MB with the intel core duo non-bugged 4 ghz.

All I will say is: "So I was walking up this long flight of stairs today and then this dumbass bumped into me... and i'm sure you can figure out why I'm calling you today, Dell."

JaxChris Dell has been in business long enough to know that its cheaper to keep an estimated number of parts in stock for repair and warranty issues for more than a few months after a laptop is no longer being sold. Yes, of course it would be stupid to keep a replica of every one sold but you and I both know thats not required. We also know that Dell would have a good understanding of how many replacement parts would be needed to cover warranty issues over a certain period. It would cost Dell less to have a 1 or 2 year warranty supply of these parts then it would be to simply say "Opps we dont have any more 6800GO GPUs so we'll give you a new replacement 9400 laptop instead".

This does NOT mean they stock a replica for every system they sell as you put it above. They would have a calculated estimate to last them a year or so because THAT is cheaper then to replace the entire unit. These parts have no resale value and dont need any because they aren't for resale. They also know that they would receive a certain number of parts back due to warranty repair which could then be used as reconditioned parts for future warranty issues.

This just makes good business sense.

Yes, after a few years it is then cheaper to replace the unit completely but you still have to ship your original back to them. Dell WILL use working parts from that system in any future warranty issues from someone else calling in.

That is correct, Dell will use parts out of other returned systems... that is how Dell maintains additional parts volumes. They do not keep buying those parts from their OE channel. 90 days after a product is no longer sold new on their site, all remaining new parts are transferred to the Dell Spare Parts warehouse.

After those parts are exhausted, the only remaining parts are those salvaged from returned systems.

So, Dell had to pull the 6800 from the build-to-order page and cancel orders because they ran out and can't get more because the bare GPU's were no longer available. This means all "Previously Ordered New" 6800's were recycled into the last purchases as they weren't shipped or used - they qualify as new.

Now, Dell Spare Parts says they are out of 6800's. This means that someone will have to return a defective system with a 6800 in it. But if they return it and the 6800 is ok, they'll have to reuse that part in the replacement system that they send to that customer. If the customer has a defective 6800 in their 9300, they don't have any 6800 cards to replace it with. This means they must furnish the customer with a system of equivilent or better performance in all specs. What's the next card similar or barely better than the 6800? 6800 Ultra? Well Dell probably won't want to send a customer an XPS for their 9300 because of the cost of other additional parts in the XPS. So, the 7800 Vanilla is the next closest step. And what does it come in? A 9400 of course. So then they have to provide similar memory quantity, CPU quality (they can even get away with a Core Solo here), similar hard drive size and speed, and similar optical drive option.

Dell has no other 17" laptop replacement option unless they want to lose additional money by giving a Precision or XPS model to a 9300 owner.

You cant. 5 years is the longest anyone can have a warranty on any system that Dell sells.


I'm not saying that Dell would have a warehouse of 9300's sitting around, i'm saying its reasonable to expect that they still have a number of 6800 floating around their warehouses that Part Sales cant sell. What sense would it make to sell off all your remaining inventory of replacement parts when there's the possibility that some may be needed for warranty work? it would be cheaper to have those parts available then to have to offer a brand new system because you cant' honor the warranty on a system due to missing a measley 200 dollar part.

Ethan, it is cheaper for Dell to sell every part they can and just recycle stuff from other systems to the point of exstinction. Then if a system fails due and must be replace with another model due to lack of 1 part, they now have an entire machine worth of other good parts to add to the parts bin! Got it?!?!