How does this sound?

This will be for my girlfriend for home use and for work. She will be working alot with pics, webpages, and Office apps.

Inspiron E1705
Intel® Core™ Duo Processor T2300
XP Media Center Edition 2005
17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™
1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1400 HyperMemory
80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card (54Mbps)
53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery

After rebate and $350 off coupon it is $1445

Is it worth the $100 or $300 to upgrade to the T2400 or T2500 CPU? Also, she works for a fairly large car dealership, do u think she can get in on the EPP and if so, would she save even more money. Thanks!

 

Hey... That seems a little expensive to me.... I would wait a week or two. They recently took the $750 and $650 off $1999 coupons away! If you wait there is a good chance you will see a $650 off coupon soon. That would save you another $300. Otherwise looks good.

 

You can always try to create a quote under the EPP. In my case (Government/Education and Healthcare EPP) I did end up saving a good bit on my E1505. But more often than not, the main difference is the EPP deals just come with a longer warranty.

 

What exactly is EPP

 

Employee Purchase Program. Dell offers special deals to employees of various different business sectors. If you work for either a large corporation, government, healthcare, or education there is often a specific program offered by Dell.