Fair pricing for the New Dell Inspirons

I understand that there has not been any pricing releases but right now im torn between the Dell and HP laptops.

Hp already has thier new 8400m GS cards out and dell is comeing out with them next week. The one thing that attracts me to the new HPs is that i can get $200 off with a special coupon problem is, the coupon lasts till the 23, 3 days too early. Seeing as how im bugeted strictly on $1300 this is very apealing. Im wondering what would be a fair estimate on the dells with 8600m gs on the 15.4" Laptops.

Now with the 15.4" C2D 1.73ghz , 2gig ram, cheapest HD, and home premium costing $1099 at worst and HP giving the 8600 gs for $230 more than the GMA x3100 would it be safe to estimate that these things will cost $1300?

 

My sense is that Dell Inspiron (with coupons) generally runs a little bit cheaper than HP Pavilion for the same specs... maybe 10% or so, though I don't know exactly. This may not be true right when the Inspirons are launched though. The new Pavilions seem overpriced though, so I don't know. If nothing else, the new competition might prod HP to lower their prices a little. You can also save a bit of money by buying ram at newegg.

Oh yeah, I'd suggest taking a look at the Asus F3 series too.

 

Thanks! That info realy helped! ive done some reasearch on hp but no so much on dell.

 

these have to include dell coupons of course or it wouldn't be fair (and it would be uncharacteristic of Dell to have more expensive prices than HP)

 

what is that cupon u found?...and also..i also have a cupon for 200$ off....however when i went to buy the hp, there was no place to insert the cupon.....so i couldn't see wheter it worked or not...do u know how to do that?