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    RPM speed of hard drive

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by BCHardee, Jul 29, 2005.

  1. BCHardee

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    I am about to order a xps2 laptop but the dell rep told me that all but the 60gb 7200rpm drive are 4200rpm drives. Can that be true? I was hoping they would be 5400, especially the 100 gb drive
     
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  2. LuckMC11

    LuckMC11 Computer Extraoirdinaire NBR Reviewer

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    they are wrong...all the hard drives that don't say that they are 7200 RPM are all 5400 RPM...they upgraded all their hard drives after May...but never felt like changing it on their website...so people who don't know about all have to pay to get a 7200 RPM hard drive since it's the only one better than the 4200 RPM hard drive
     
    LuckMC11, Jul 29, 2005
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    u'd also think they'd up the prices since its a 5400......but luckily no.
     
    X24, Jul 30, 2005
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    i no...but they get more money in ppl thinking that they should get the 7200 RPM hard drive that it dusn't really matter to them or not
     
    LuckMC11, Jul 30, 2005
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  5. BCHardee

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    I am going to go ahead and order tomorrow with a 40% and $35 dollar coupon. Anyone know of any other coupons they can recommend that would apply or be better than the $35 dollar one. I am a bit dissappointed that they don't stack the $400 instant price drop with the 40% coupon.
     
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    lol...if they did stack that...people would be getting like over $2000 systems for only like $600-1000 dollard
     
    LuckMC11, Jul 30, 2005
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