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How well do Dell notebooks hold their price?

post #1 of 14
9/15/04 at 2:18pm
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Let's say last year a month or two after Dell 600M launched you could get a deal with coupons and rebates to around $1050 for basic Dell 600M.

Now a year later with similar coupons and rebates the notebook is around $950.

So basically there is no point to wait to buy a DELL since even with coupons and discounts it will only drop to around $100-150 cheaper in a year?

Does anyone else find this true or not?

Thanks.
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post #2 of 14
9/15/04 at 2:29pm
Notebooks depreciate faster than $150/$100 a year; It's probably more like $50-$75 a MONTH. Someone selling a year old notebook will easily have to take a $500+ hit on what they paid when they bought it new. And when comparing depreciation don't use coupons or rebates in the equation; Use the MSRP.

The example you've chosen must be an exclusion in some how or some way. I fail to believe the 600m is anywhere near the price it was a year ago now that the 700m is out.
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post #3 of 14
9/15/04 at 2:30pm
Are the internal components still the same in the 600M?
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post #4 of 14
9/15/04 at 2:46pm
They also start depreciating hugely as soon as they are discontinued.

A few reasons for this, but largely I think it's because they typically are discontinued because newer/better/faster items replace the components.
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post #5 of 14
9/15/04 at 3:07pm
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Originally Posted by qasw
Let's say last year a month or two after Dell 600M launched you could get a deal with coupons and rebates to around $1050 for basic Dell 600M.

Now a year later with similar coupons and rebates the notebook is around $950.

So basically there is no point to wait to buy a DELL since even with coupons and discounts it will only drop to around $100-150 cheaper in a year?

Does anyone else find this true or not?

Thanks.
Well last year didn't the dell have worse specs than now? If you wait you get better stuff (Free upgrades, Faster CPU, etc..) but that's true for any computer.
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post #6 of 14
9/15/04 at 3:22pm
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Well the cpu is slightly faster and the more hd space. but the prices is down only like $100 .

I'm not talking about the resale value.

I'm talking about buying the latop from DELL.

Like if you wait a half a year you basically get the same deal if you did not wait.
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post #7 of 14
9/15/04 at 3:40pm
My point was that if the model number designation remains the same, but Dell updates the components (e.g. CPU, HD, RAM) to keep up with current laptops, then it makes complete sense that the MSRP remains largely unchanged.
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post #8 of 14
9/15/04 at 3:45pm
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Originally Posted by Element
Notebooks depreciate faster than $150/$100 a year; It's probably more like $50-$75 a MONTH. Someone selling a year old notebook will easily have to take a $500+ hit on what they paid when they bought it new. And when comparing depreciation don't use coupons or rebates in the equation; Use the MSRP.

The example you've chosen must be an exclusion in some how or some way. I fail to believe the 600m is anywhere near the price it was a year ago now that the 700m is out.
But his original point was not talking about something that's second-hand. It's not really deprecation at all. Just fall in price.
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post #9 of 14
9/15/04 at 4:16pm
it's also pretty hard to judge monatary values as you'd have to look at the value of the dollar in retrospect of outsourcing overseas.

Were they made in malay a year ago also?
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post #10 of 14
9/15/04 at 6:17pm
yeah...they were made in malaysia since early 2000
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post #11 of 14
9/15/04 at 9:00pm
Pretty much all laptop makers try to keep the MSRP the same but increase the specs over the lifetime of the notebook. For example you'll probably find that a 2.0G Dothan costs the same now that a 1.7 Banias did six months ago.

Cheers

Steve
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post #12 of 14
9/16/04 at 1:49am
My old computer is 5 years old... no one even wants the 48x CD burner in it anymore. A 5 year old car, however, and you have a different story.

Technology -- especially computer tech -- changes extremely rapidly, so don't feel that three years later, you can trade in a 600m for the new and super 601m for a great price. Unfortunate, I know...
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post #13 of 14
9/16/04 at 9:04am
notebooks hold value better than desktops and you dont lose much value ina year, people over exagerate and are cheap in their pockets
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post #14 of 14
9/16/04 at 1:48pm
I've seen my Toshiba model go for ~ $500 on EBay recently. Originally paid about what I did for my new 8600 ($1800) 3 years ago.

The nice thing about laptops, over time, is the portability factor, not performance. It still does the basics just fine, just wouldn't want to game on it.
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