Vostro's pricing is so crazy, anyone agree?

is it me or are the new vostro's the best valued laptops on the market right now as far as mainstream goes? I'm getting the 1400 for 649 with a Dedicated graphics card! and other nice upgrades, i'm just going to put my own 2 gigs of ram in. Yea i know the card is slow, but i dont want it for speed, i have my desktop, i just want to play my games mobile, go to lan parties and what not =)

 

Haha yes. The one in my sig was only $791.

 

I'm just wondering what kinda build quality the Vostros have... I hope they are built like the Latitude series.

 

what is the catch?!
how different is it from the 1520 series?
why is it soo much cheaper...

 

Theoretically they should be built the same as the Inspiron line? Just painted solid black?

And I thought just a while ago people were complaining how the Inspiron equivalent to a certain Vostro was somewhat more expensive?

 

They should be built the same.

It's also not that much cheaper. It's if you use the deals + coupons that it comes out cheaper.

 

eh i wouldn't say its that crazy, id say its fair for an entry level business laptop.

 

what coupons did you use?

 

Not too crazy considering you can get a thinkpad R61 for about a $100 more.... build quality would be substantially better.

 

None, just went to the small business site and looked on the bottom left of the site and clicked "Smart Values" or w/e, instant $250 off.

 

No, I dont agree at all

Inspiron 1520
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7300 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/4MB cache)
Genuine Windows ® Vista Home Premium Edition
High Resolution, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch display (1680x1050)
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 8600M GT
FREE! 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz
FREE! 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
CD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW Drive)
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini-Card
Integrated 2.0M Pixel Webcam
85Whr Lithium Ion Battery (9 cell)
High Definition Audio 2.0
2 Yr In-Home Service, Parts + Labor - Next Business Day
Add Accidental Damage and LoJack Theft Protection to 2Yr Warr.
10 GB Online Backup for 1Yr
1 Year Automated PC Tune Up

Base price (before coupons) $1811

Vostro 1500
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7300 (2.0GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Business
15.4 in UltraSharp™ Wide Scrn SXGA+LCD Display w/TrueLife™
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM
160G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
8X CD/DVD Burner w/ double-layer DVD+R write capability, w/ Roxio Creator
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8600M GT
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Wi-Fi Mini Card
Integrated 2.0 mega pixel Web Camera
High Definition Audio 2.0
85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
2 Year Limited Hardware Warranty with Next Business Day On-Site Service
2 Year CompleteCare Accidental Damage Service
10GB for 1yr Online Backup by Dell Datasafe
1 Year Dell Automated PC Tuneup

Base price (before coupons) $1820

The vostro is the same price as the inspiron, for the same hardware. Maybe even slightly more expensive.

You get some cheaper choices with the vostro (like a Celeron processor. woot!) but if you compare the same configurations, you see they arent any cheaper at all.

 

when configured under a grand it is way cheaper. it only starts to even out once you get into the higher end stuff

edit: actually went through and configured the both the same as above, and the vosotro came out $150 cheaper

 

Yeah, try doing the configuration in my sig under $1000 with the inspirons...can't do it.

 

Hmm. Yeah, it appears if you get the cheapest, low-end options, you can get a cheaper vostro. But once you get a medium or high end, the vostro becomes more expensive for the same parts.

Its almost as if Dell is trying to lure businesses in with the cheapest low-end stuff, and then once they are hooked, rip them off with the medium/high end stuff.

So I guess if you want a low-end laptop, go for the vostro. If you want a medium or good level of stuff, go for the inspiron.

 

I'm fine being a low-ender, heh.

 

its all perty much even once you get to the highend stuff. at that point its really a preference between the color of the chasis. it only evens out because of the free 2gb upgrade and 160gb hdd upgrade with the 1520. both are exactly the same, just like the e1505 and 6400

 

1stStrike whats your estimated delivery date? Mines the 30th - the 1st!

 

For my 1520, the 1500 costs more....so I am fine.

 

yea, i dont need much, as i said, I have a power house desktop and this I would just carry around. Try to find another laptop with a graphics card, decent low end specs and what not. I dont need or want to upgrade any of these things that u mentioned above.

High Definition Audio 2.0
2 Yr In-Home Service, Parts + Labor - Next Business Day
Add Accidental Damage and LoJack Theft Protection to 2Yr Warr.
10 GB Online Backup for 1Yr
1 Year Automated PC Tune Up

CD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW Drive)
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini-Card
Integrated 2.0M Pixel Webcam
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7300 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/4MB cache)
High Resolution, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch display (1680x1050)
more then half of this to me is a waste of money, why get a high res 1680x1050 screen when... the graphics card isn't fast enough to handle that.

 

i still havent ordered mine yet. Just need my dad to transfer the $800 to my bank account so i can get it. hopefully i can order tomorrow. right now im getting a preliminary ship date of 7/26/20072

 

Yeah thats the one I got too! Good luck bro! Going to go change that ram/vid card thing now that it's apparently easy to change RAM on a laptop!

 

because graphic artists, engineers or other business professionals prefer higher resolution displays that allow them to multi-task more efficiently? if you're talking about a gaming machine you might have a point, but even the barest of graphic cards can drive that desktop resolution without any trouble.