Price Drop now sonoma is out?

Hi all

Am planning on buying an i9200 in the next week. just wondering if anyone has any idea of what sort of price drop can be expected with the release of sonoma?

at the moment the system i want has $820 off (normally $4320 now only $3500). I am in australia before you freak out about the high dollar values

Just wondering if this is a good deal or will there be even larger price cuts coming soon.

the system mentioned above is the followign specs
-2GhZ PM4
-1GB RAM
-100GB HDD
-ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB
-Intel PRO dual channel wirless
-blue tooth adapter
-dual layer burner
-backpack
-9 cell battery


thanks

 

not sure if you're already tried this, but you may want to go with the minimum possible RAM with the notebook and then buy aftermarket. it may be a way to save a little more.

good luck

 

it is pre-configured with the 1GB ram as part of the deal.

 

Well, actually that is based on first reports, now I guess it is different. Maybe the i9300 may be out, but a set date is yet to be known, just like on one of the headlines from a few days ago. Its possible though.[?]

 

just as a side topic though, its not a P-M4. Its just Pentium M. P4 Mobile is getting old, you don't see them often anymore. I don't know about price cuts soon, but I would expect one. But on the other hand, (if its the same in Australia) I would think it is more logical just to buy now, because by next week we will most likely be seeing the i9300, which would take the i9200 out.

 

my concern is that if there is a price drop is it going to be more than the $820 i can save at the moment. That seems like a big saving to me. Considering that the new sonoma parts are priced the same or only slightly more than the older ones they are replacing. That leaves only the memory and the GPU and both of those are goign to be more expensive than current parts i would guess, mainly due to availability. DDR2 and PCIe are not going to be cheap for a while yet, at least not in the laptop arena.