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    Just placed an order on my first DELL

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Hambone, Jun 25, 2007.

  1. Hambone

    Hambone Notebook Consultant

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    yesterday(Sunday 6/24) i ordered the XPS 710. They told the Estimated ship date is Friday 6/29. Dose dell usually ship it out before the ship date? because my HP laptop shipped out before the ship date. im glad to be a part of this DELL forum and DELL owner. Hope this machine is a good one. i also did the 12 months no interest payment. its a limited offer that ends 6/27.

    XPS 710 Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6600 (4MB L2 Cache,2.4GHz,1066 FSB)

    Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 DIMMs

    Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard

    Monitor No Monitor

    Video Cards 256MB nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS

    Hard Drive 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

    Floppy Drive and Media Reader No Floppy Drive or Media Reader Included

    Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Media Center 2005 Edition with re-installation CD

    Mouse Dell Optical USB Mouse

    Modem No Modem


    Optical Drive Single Drive: 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability

    Sound Cards Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic (D) Sound Card
     
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  2. Kdawgca

    Kdawgca rotaredoM repudrepuS RBN

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    congrats on you XPS desktop.

    How much did you pay?
     
    Kdawgca, Jun 25, 2007
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  3. Hambone

    Hambone Notebook Consultant

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    $1970 and i was wondering how to dual a graphics card. do i just get another one and put it in? or do i need to connect them?
     
    Hambone, Jun 25, 2007
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    Kdawgca rotaredoM repudrepuS RBN

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    Holy crap! $1970 :eek:

    Wow...that sucks.
     
    FusionZ06, Jun 25, 2007
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  6. ScifiMike12

    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    I can understand why I bought my Dell laptop but a desktop?? Damn dude.. that sucks.

    I spent $1100 on parts for my rig back in Decemeber and I thought that was cutting it too much.

    Mike.
     
    ScifiMike12, Jun 25, 2007
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  7. Bona Fide

    Bona Fide Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Yeah...where do they get off charging that much? :mad:
     
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    net_xport Notebook Geek

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    I'm getting sick and tired of people on this forum claiming dell offered them "special price", "special deal", "one in a life-time discounts".

    Let me tell you, Dell does that all the time. Today dell claims $400 off on Latitude priced at $1600 or above. The next day dell advertised $450 off on Latitude priced at $1800. Bull.

    Dell changes their notebooks/desktops prices every day. I simply don't believe in their "limited offers" anymore.
     
    net_xport, Jun 25, 2007
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  9. Homer_Jay_Thompson

    Homer_Jay_Thompson blathering blatherskite

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    Are you telling me when a furniture store claims, "Their prices will never go this low again!", they are not telling the truth? :laugh:
     
    Homer_Jay_Thompson, Jun 25, 2007
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    Yes, unless they're liquidating. Or closing business. Same.

    It's all false advertising to get more customers, and for marketing purposes. Profits is all businesses see. You don't expect dell to give you discounts without doing their math properly, do you?
     
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  11. FusionZ06

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    I know right...freaking insane.
     
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    the price was starting @ $1699. i only added the 2.4GHz C2D and the sound card. i will be adding the ram my self for cheaper price. they said 2GB is +$100 but on ebay it only cost $30 for 1 GB. I dont really need a good GPU right so the 8600 GTS would be fine. i will get the 8800s when their price drop. for the 12 months no interest, u would need to be approve for how many credits they would give u.
     
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    FYI: My whole desktop in my sig was purchased for under $1500.
     
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    Desktop parts are cheaper than laptop parts and we can upgrade em easily.
    later this year, they will have an upgrade kit of the intel core quad, nvidia i680 chipset for a discount price to xps 710 owners.

    my HP laptop dv2000t is about 8 months old and i wana throw it away lol. i would never buy HP product again. and i lost my tast for laptops.
     
    Hambone, Jun 25, 2007
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  15. Sirius_GTO

    Sirius_GTO Notebook Deity

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    It wouldn't suck for you if you were the one selling it. :rolleyes:
     
    Sirius_GTO, Jun 25, 2007
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    Where are you guys finding these models. I don't see a dell xps 710 on the web site please send me the link ASAP I want the 12 month finance promotion
     
    alynch75, Jun 25, 2007
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    Thanks that is why i didn't find it I thought it was some type of new laptop
     
    alynch75, Jun 25, 2007
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  19. chuck232

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    I'm sorry to cast doubts on your purchase, but that's very expensive for the components you got. That case better be amazing. ;)
     
    chuck232, Jun 25, 2007
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