Decent Dell for €689

quad_red

In the Herald AM yesterday they had a fantastic offer
e-value code: NPIE5-D04516a

Total cost incl VAT & shipping: €689

Pentium D 2.8ghz, 2mb L2 cache, 800mhz FSB
XP Media Centre
1024mb DDR2 Ram
19" Flat Panel Monitor
160gb Serial ATA Hard drive
16x Dvd-rom

That is some price for that kit.

Irishpimpdude

Yeah that seems like a great offer buy a dvdrw off komplett for 45 euro and your ready to go and maybe another hd.

Sponge Bob

To get it , it comes with 1Gb RAM and Media Centre and 19" Analogue Flat Panel but no remote control or DVD burner or offboard video so its not gamer dude ready is it , it has an AGP slot though !

1. Click here

2. Reduce warranty to 1 Year.

Now its €641

Tell them you work for AIB or BoI if asked but they will deliver to your home anyway

ChityWest

If anyone is thinking of buying that but doesnt need the monitor let me know - I need a 19" tft monitor - as per this :

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054914251

TempestSabre

Sponge Bob wrote:

....it has an AGP slot though !
...

The 5150 has a PCI Express x16 slot.

That offer is showing as 80GB HD for me.

Tanabe

Take a look at this baby:

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&fb=1&l=en&oc=D045C5&rbc=D045C5&s=dhs&sbc=iedhsftdppdesktop3x

Select the "1 Year Collect & Return" service package & it's €939

Only downer is NO MONITOR:(

TempestSabre

Tanabe wrote:

Take a look at this baby:

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&fb=1&l=en&oc=D045C5&rbc=D045C5&s=dhs&sbc=iedhsftdppdesktop3x

Select the "1 Year Collect & Return" service package & it's €939

Only downer is NO MONITOR:(

I think thats a terrible deal. You'd get the similar spec for half the price on the outlet store.

Tanabe

TempestSabre wrote:

You'd get the similar spec for half the price on the outlet store.

Would you get XP Media Center Edition with that???

machalla

Or just use Mediaportal instead.
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

XP media centre is not so great in my opinion. I found it very buggy indeed.

Mediaportal proved far more capable.

gollem_1975

the advertisement for this machine in the metro/heraldAM says that the 5150 is "Dual core" .
the 9150 "high-performance" model advertised does not make any reference to it being Dual Core , Duo Core etc.

does anyone know if the processor in the 5150 is dual core .. their advertisements for their laptops seems to emphasize that they are "duo core".

update : just checked the link posted by spongebob

"Intel® Pentium® D Processor 820 with DualCore Technology (2.80GHz,800MHz fsb,2x1MB cache) [Included in Price] "

Sharp

Is this offer over as i get a HD of 80gb and only 512 mem ????

The offers on the outlet store don't include monitors,vat or P&P.

TempestSabre

The offers at the moment seem poor. The outlet at the moment, isn't that great. Was better a week or so ago. Give it another week and see what its like.

Sharp

Thanks. For the Info.

Sharp

Offer back on €607 for the 512 and 686 for the 1Gb memory.

jrd

Sharp wrote:

Is this offer over as i get a HD of 80gb and only 512 mem ????

The offers on the outlet store don't include monitors,vat or P&P.

Me too. How long do these offers last? Seems you need to be very quick for some of them. What is the Dell support like?

Sharp

Here's the link im using at the moment.
Just reduce the warrenty to 1year and its €607
With an extra 512 its €686.

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=ie&cs=ieepp1&fb=1&kc=NPIE5&l=en&oc=D04516a&x=10&y=14

As for the support judgeing by the sales staff it must be dire.But then again like any sales line it depends on who you get.

Rang up to see what the cost of addition of a good GFX card.


But when i asked about getting one equiped with a Gforce 6600 GT (140 on Komplett.ie as it doesn't come with a graphics card) told it could be incompatable with the system, told him the UK site and the US site sell the same system with it included, got oh yea but theirs a world shortage on these cards and a huge lead time because of this (doesn't seem to be a shortage on the net or in Dell Uk or US .Then tried to sell me a card for €500. Tried to blind me with techno babble said as the 6600 is a 256 card thats the speed of the card and its very fast.Should have asked how many miles I'd get to the gallon.



Said I'd call back. Rang again got another sales person and asked would next weeks deal be any better than their present offering (a 160GB drive and €100 off free printer) wouldn't coment other than "You Never Know".

Must think he works for psychics online they probably would have been able to tell me more.
So left with the decision to hang on another week to see if the deal improves???

Anyone know if the difference in price of the two following monitors is worth the extra?


Dell E196FP 19" Midnight Grey (TCO99) Flat Panel Monitor [Included in Price]

Dell 19" UltraSharp™ Digital/Analogue High Quality Flat Panel for crystal clear images (1907FP) [add € 67.52 or € 29/month1]

hk797

machalla wrote:

Or just use Mediaportal instead.
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

XP media centre is not so great in my opinion. I found it very buggy indeed.

Mediaportal proved far more capable.

Never knew about these guys - thks for the tip machalla - what tuner card would you recommend for a laptop?

Janetaylor

Have they got rid of the hidden costs?

Sharp

Now on offer with Double memory.

Hmm_Messiah

I got this from the outlet store few weeks back , seemed a bargain to me
(haven't even turned on yet! no playing with pc til exams over)

Dimension 5150

P4 3.2ghz
2048 mb ram
250 harddrive
250 harddrive
DVD +/- rewriter
audigy soundcard
ATI Radeon X600 256 mb
XP media Centre
15-1 media writer 9internal and external one

speakers

680.00 including delivery

Worth trawling through offers I think

Sharp

Do the outlet stores include a monitor?

Sponge Bob

Not always.

Click Here and €608 gets you

2.8Ghz
1Gb ram
Windows media centre
1 year warranty
19" Flat Panel
printer
delivery etc

BUT

80Gb HD

and

DVD ROM (not writer)

No

quad_red

Sponge Bob wrote:

Not always.

Click Here and €608 gets you

2.8Ghz
1Gb ram
Windows media centre
1 year warranty
19" Flat Panel
printer
delivery etc

BUT

80Gb HD

and

DVD ROM (not writer)

No

How are you getting €608? I clicked the link and changed the warranty to one year (reducing the price by €157 to €648).

An off the ball question, but would it be possible to fit a standard graphics card (256 or 512) into that at a future date?

Sharp

Try this Link Here