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    Laptop depreciation rate

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by bugbite, Jan 25, 2008.

  1. bugbite

    bugbite Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just ordered an refurbished inspiron 1520, and 740 US dollars bought me a machine with the following specs:

    Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
    160 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
    15.4 WXGA Notebook Screen Display with TrueLife
    Integrated 2.0 Mega Pixel Web Camera
    9 Cell Battery, Primary
    8X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability
    Bluetooth Wireless Card 355
    Alpine White
    3945 802.11a/g Wireless Mini Card
    256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
    2 GB DDR2 SDRAM 677MHz (2 DIMMs)
    90W AC Adapter
    1 year warranty

    At the time I clicked purchase, the specs had pretty much all the stuffs I've heard even with the current machines, and the price was right on my budget of $800, for a desktop replacement laptop.

    Being curious on how quickly laptop price drops, I searched the forum and it seems for a similar spec as mine one had to shell out at least USD$1300-1500 with discounts in July of 2007. So the price has dropped by $550 to $750 (almost half) in 6 months? Even counting in the 'XPS 1530 1330' effect, I think this is madness...

    The speed of depreciation of laptop computers is just fascinating.
     
    bugbite, Jan 25, 2008
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  2. sly

    sly m1530 owner!!!

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    technology changes very quickly.whats new one day is obsolete the other
     
    sly, Jan 25, 2008
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  3. bugbite

    bugbite Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah, but I'm not really talking about obsolete technology here. I think there's a significant amount of cosmetics effects. Especially being an inspiron, there is much harder hit (than compared to xps 1530 or... say mac or ibm?)
     
    bugbite, Jan 25, 2008
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  4. B2TheEYo

    B2TheEYo Notebook Deity

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    Computers are like Cars, as soon as you drive that thing off the parking lot, it's not worth half as much. Computers, as soon as you order it, open it up and boot it up, it's not even worth half of what you paid for it and it's outdated by 3 generations lol..
     
    B2TheEYo, Jan 26, 2008
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