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    Is there a way to see ALL the possible options for a laptop on Dell.com?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by paule123, Nov 6, 2013.

  1. paule123

    paule123 Notebook Consultant

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    A couple dell.com revisions ago, I used to be able to click on the Enterprise customers portion of the site and see every possible option for a laptop, configure it, email the cart to my Dell Small Business rep and have them price it for me. With the new site it seems that option is no longer available and all customers are forced to choose from some very limited pre-built packaged systems. Specifically I'm looking to find out what all the possible options are for a Latitude E6540 and none of the packages offered are satisfactory. There's no WWAN options, only one hard drive option, etc.

    The latest revision of dell.com that they rolled out last month is awful. Buggy, slow, like I'm on a treasure hunt scrolling around in little ajax windows trying to unhide the products I want to buy.
     
    paule123, Nov 6, 2013
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  2. jackfrost7

    jackfrost7 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah, I had the same problem... its very inconvenient, but what I found worked is to google the spec sheet from their partner direct site and then calling the order in... ie: google
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    e7240 site:partnerdirect.dell.com
    click on spec sheet, pick out what you want, and then call them.
     
    jackfrost7, Nov 15, 2013
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  3. Dellienware

    Dellienware Workstations & Ultrabooks

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    They tried to make it look fancy, but it's extremely counter productive.

    I am sure there is some marketing coy behind hard navigation. I hope so, for them..
     
    Dellienware, Nov 19, 2013
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