For Those Who Is "Dude He is getting a Dell!" - Page 3

Dont forget about the population in Florida, 25% of Americas Seniors live there, thats alot of old people who could drop their laptops!!!!!!!

Rarity?

Could anyone tell me how rare 35% off coupons are? Im interested in buying a 9300, but im still trying to decide between other laptops and i kinda wanted to wait a few months to see what happens technology wise.

They are somewhat rare, your definetly alot more likely to see 20% off like this week in the H&HO section than 35% off. But remember Dell sometimes is sneaky, they will throw a $300~$750 off coupon on the net everynow and then, which can actually save you more $$$ than a 35% off coupon! I think I might hold out though, if Turion is as promising as it sounds, I'm all there!

I'm right there with ya Michaelx30, waiting for the turion, although the 35% is so very dang tempting. And for me the 35% is way better than 750 off as I've gotten around 975 to 1100 off depending on how I configure "my" laptop. So yeah, as I said tempting. I'd hate to see it go and not come around again for awhile. The last time I remember seeing 35% was last september I believe, and they also had a 750$ off coupon around there as well. That was of course the earlier time when I almost pulled the trigger. You can almost feel the anticipation huh?

Tellerve

EDIT: Ya know, it looks like small business doesn't have the caveat that their complete care provision doesn't work in NY and Florida. In other words, it does work in those states. I just read through it and haven't found any mention of it not working in those states. In fact it says something about the warranty in the 50 states, so it must include them.

EDIT2: went to circuit city and picked up/looked at the toshiba and sony laptops which btw are 2 and 1 ~lbs heavier and more expensive. I'm really having a hard time not pulling the trigger

Go have a yard sale. Sell some stuff.
Boom you're a business.

Don't think about it. If you need one this is the deal to get. 35% is a RARE one to find. Consdiering the fact that u'll probably be speccing this laptop out over $2200...its' definitely gonna be better than the 750 off coupon which is hte closest Dell has ever done. That said, Dell has a 21 day return policy so you know...get it and see how you like it...

I really really want this...can I borrow somebody's credit card?

Is it really that rare? I personnally can't remember the last time I saw one at 35% but I don't know if I've watched it quite as much as everyone else.

Tellerve

p.s. Turion is one of the other things holding me back, just wish these things coincided better so I could make a decision better LOL.

I am a little wary of a 35% coupon on a brand new release by Dell. Mike Dell has something up his sleeve. There has to be a reason why Dell is willing to shave a 1/3 of the price on one of its better Inspiron(a brand new generation release at that) models guys........

There is no free lunch. If u don't need it or can afford to wait, then wait and see what gives. Thats my recommendation.

Peace y'all.

Actually SmilePak the price difference between the xps and xps2 is almost non-existent, same goes for the 9200/9300.........

Thats why I feel real sorry for those who just bought XPS's lately. They are kicking themselves in the nads ....HARD...

Just configured up one of the 9300s on the Small Business site and I noticed that the default seems to be only a 1yr warranty. I think that is where the are getting you here, add in 3 year and it adds $418 to the total. Ouch.

Still a decent price.

But when I configured the same Laptop in the Home section and applied a $750 coupon that is floating around the price difference was about $140, $2200ish in the SB side compared to $2300 at the Home site. This is with both having a 3yr warranty. Again still saving some $$ but not as much as I'd first thought.

not that I'm getting it, *sigh* but the small business warranty is "better" for some, like me who live in NY and where the normal complete care warranty wouldn't work. You should also note that small business warranty over 1 year includes complete care. Also note that the 3 year one has a $130 mail in rebate which puts it really really cose to the 2 year upgrade.

Tellerve

Relax, there'll be more.

This is Dell we're talk'n 'bout here, this i sthe one thing Dell is consistent about. Their never ending coupons/rebates/upgrades.......ad nauseum

As others have pointed out it includes all Inspirons, but it IS strange that they didn't exclude the 9300 when they did the XPS 2.

We may have gotten one of the answers today: The clock speed and memory on the i9300 GeForce 6800go is NOT the newer, faster GDDR3 version like the Sagers are using, it is the slower, DDR version. Not that it is a slow card by any means but the performance delta between the i9300 and the XPS 2 for games is now MUCH larger.

The clock speed for the card in the i9300 has been confirmed by a couple people as:

290/300 (600 DDR)

The "Ultra" 6800 in the XPS 2 is:

450/550 (1100 DDR).

That is a pretty significant difference in GPU speeds. The thing about it is, until people actually started getting i9300's delivered, you couldn't find ANYTHING anywhere about the clock speed in the i9300. Dell was mum on the subject as were the few review sites that looked at it (the fact that this information was left out of reviews by sites like Extremetech - who are known for their love of specs - makes me believe they were under a pre-release limited NDA of some sort).

That more than anything makes be believe there is a lot of back door marketing going on here. Not that it is wrong or illegal - Dell can market it's products by withholding information all they want, they just can't lie about stuff that isn't there - but it's nice to know all the same.

ok and you think dell will make both those cards close to each other , give me a break.. thats the whole point of dishing out extra cash to get the xps2.. i for one knew the graphic cards was gonna be the biggest and main difference ... and i knew both cards were not gonna be close in that aspect... so for me the 9300 fits my needs for now until alienware releases the hammer on all companys.... i dont game on computer just do heavy tech program work on mines... plus battery life is a plus for me...

Interesting, I didn't know that part.

How's this for motive. Exhaust all the ddr 6800 go's (which should be dirt cheap, relatively speaking ofcourse) w/ the third off coupon, and then after you shirk those off on the coupon users, get the regular gddr3 6800 gos for the I9300 and the Ultra for the XPS2.

Wallah!

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