processor prices?

Had to rebuild 1720 because of expired cart and umm..

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7100 (1.8GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache) [Included in Price]
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7500 ( 2.2GHz/800Mhz FSB/4MB cache) [ add $216]
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7700 ( 2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB/4MB cache) [ add $200]

 

Supply and demand, my friend. Those are the key words

 

woo hoo 2.4GHz ... unless the pricing changes between now and when I can call and order

 

Just say "thank you" and take the 2.4Ghz

 

oh I am

 

Wow- that's bizarre. Actually, everything about their processor pricing has gone screwy this week- any dollar amount ending in "16" is a bizarre amount to charge.

It's nice that they're offering such a bargain on the T7700, but the complete absence of the T7300- generally considered to be the best price/performance match- is a real bummer for folks who aren't able to spend another $200 above what they're charging for the T7100.

Like kwakkel says, supply and demand...and most likely a price mistake that will be corrected in an hour or two.

 

Intel had announced price cuts effective sept2, and a new set of processors. Someone mentioned that intel has a bin approach, and when they do this, a new processor goes in the top, and the bottom one drops out.

Here's a link to the new processors

 

Interesting- the new prices aren't in effect until Sunday and the new chips won't be available until then, but Dell must be adjusting already. Here's a link to the new pricing scheme; looks like:

1. The T7250 (not yet offered by Dell) replaces the T7100 (at the same price) as the entry-level "performance" C2D chip

2. The T7500 replaces the T7300 as the mid-level chip (and the first with the 4MB L2 cache) at the same price

3. The T7700 gets a big price drop- but not enough to explain the fact that Dell's offering it for less than the T7500 now

4. The T7800 supplants the T7700 as the top "performance" chip, with "extreme" chips above it.

The bottom line seems to be that Dell's already factored in the price cut for the T7700 but not the T7500, which is bizarre.

All in all, it would have been nice to get the T7500 for the same price as the soon to be late, lamented T7300, but given that this will probably result in another batch of delays, I'm just happy to have my lappy.

 

pissed that i didnt wait 2 days.

 

send it back? or ask to compensate?
though it isn't really fair, it is possible

 

to be honest i got a pretty sweet deal already, and the t7700 isnt avliable on the 1500 yet.

 

There's no harm in contacting them and seeing if they'll price match. I went on chat several days after ordering and got a supervisor to credit me $25 based on the fact that the weekly coupon had gone from $300 to $325 (of course, had I waited a few hours more, I would have been out of luck, since they bumped up the prices to more than cover the additional $25 )

 

i cant really price match tho becausethe deal i got was £144 off already so i dont know whats the difference between what i paid and what the new price is. :S Plus im sure ive already been black listed and the sales rep i ordered with doesnt like me anymore so it owuld have to be done through customer serivce and they keep records of how many times you called etc.

 

More importantly, they haven't applied any of the changes to the UK site, so you wouldn't save anything anyways if you ordered today.

 

Us British are used to being ****ted on by every single multi national company.

 

You get much better chocolate than we do here in the States, though.

 

but that chocolate comes from Belgium!
(go us - no, ot US )

 

debate able i love Cadburys, but according to some stuck up tart British chocolate isnt rated very high in the world, what does she know she probably weighted about 5 stone.

 

as I said: you haven't tried chocolate, till you tried Belgian chocolate

 

Cadbury owns your ass so shup boy

 

But only T7x00 (where x is odd) alone are Santa Rosa processors with the 800Mhz FSB isnt it ?

 

No, the T7250 is 2.0GHz, 800Mhz FSB.

 

And T7800 is 2.6GHz, 800Mhz.

 

I'll counter that with a "Ignorance is a bliss."

 

Well the reason I canceled my order is that the T7300 is back ordered which pushed my order back another 2 weeks. Now I have to believe there is a shortage of these chips or they are being phased out because they have gone missing off of other sites CPU lineups as well.
At any rate, since I ordered my Sager from XoticPC I found out that my T7300 will get a free upgrade to the T7500.
Dell is going to make you wait until you cancel to force you to reorder, which btw, is at a higher price than you originally paid.
For those waiting on a T7300, you could be in for a long wait.

 

I think you can better ask them to put in a T7500 instead because that is currently offered at a lower price than the T7300 and it is not your fault that you did not know they would be running short of T7300....

 

Well you can ask but I think most people are finding that the Dell CSR's are forcing people to cancel and reorder if they try and change core components like that. You could get lucky though.

 

Yeah but DELL had not mentioned about a delay while placing the order and so DELL will be glad to do some arrangements regarding this..... Or even if not the processor try to squeeze something out since the current prices have entirely changed

 

the prices overall of the systems are now higher than a couple of days ago even thought the cpu's went down they raised the starting prices up

 

Yes I have noticed they took the T7300 off. Also, has anyone heard about any new Dell coupons for this week? I have not seen any anywhere.