17" Vostro Laptop .. good deal ?

zod

Just bought the following for €1,399 ( includes VAT and delivery )

V1700 CORE 2 DUO T7100 1.80GHz,800,2M
V1700 17" WXGA+ (1440 x 900)
V1700 Matte Jet Black with 2.0 MP camera
2048 MB 667 MHz Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x 1024 MB)
Hard Drive 160GB Serial ATA (5400RPM)
DVD+/-RW Drive 8x
AC Adapter 90W
Primary 6-cell 56WHr Li-Ion Battery
128 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
Irish/Spanish Modem Cable and Adapter Internal V.92 Data, Fax,
Dell™ Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini-PCI Card EUR
Dell USB Black Optical Mouse 1
Vista Business 1
English Microsoft Office 2007 Small Business
English McAfee Security Centre 8.0 - 15 Month Subscription
3 Year Hardware Support - Next Business Day


Good deal ?

dulpit

Well the Vostro's are very good offer at moment, looks good...

Out of curiousity how much did these extras cost?

zod wrote:

Dell USB Black Optical Mouse 1
English Microsoft Office 2007 Small Business
English McAfee Security Centre 8.0 - 15 Month Subscription
3 Year Hardware Support - Next Business Day

I reckon it would have been a lot cheaper without them, right?

zod

dulpit wrote:

Well the Vostro's are very good offer at moment, looks good...
Out of curiousity how much did these extras cost?
I reckon it would have been a lot cheaper without them, right?

Dell USB Black Optical Mouse 1 about €20
English Microsoft Office 2007 Small Business about €250
English McAfee Security Centre 8.0 - 15 Month Subscription about €40
3 Year Hardware Support - Next Business Day about €150

Extra Cam in lid €30

dulpit

So you're looking at around €950 for the base laptop? That's not bad at all...

AlmightyCushion

Drop the mc afee subscription, you can get free anti virus software that is just as good. Do you really need office? You can get open office, which is a free open source office suite. Dropping the two of these would save you nearly €300.

TerrorFirmer

Yeah I'd definitely have ditched hardware support and especially McAfee. That way for cheaper then what you paid, you could have gotten the machine plus the vastly superior 8600Gt card and higher res screen as well. I won't bother saying ditch office, as I'm sure you have a reason for that....open office is good but sometimes you really need Office....'almost as good' doesn't really cut it when you run into a problem

AlmightyCushion

I'd ditch support as well but a lot of people like that safety net.

zod

It wasn't for me, it's for a small business, so all of the extra was mandatory

If I was buying for myself I would've waited for a deal on the Dell ebay shop, and used avast and google docs

AlmightyCushion

zod wrote:

It wasn't for me, it's for a small business, so all of the extra was mandatory

If I was buying for myself I would've waited for a deal on the Dell ebay shop, and used avast and google docs

Ah right. I probably would have gotten the 9 cell battery.

curtains

Be warned bout delivery times though.

I ordered the same laptop back in the middle of august, due date was tomorrow. Got an e-mail today saying they won't be available till Oct 8.

Was depending on it getting it to do some editing work when I go back to college week after next. So I'm ragin.

Jr.Hero

What methods of payment can you use to pay for a laptop from dell. all i see from the website is Credit Card. Can another method be used by phone or anything?

zod

you can send a chq in with the ref of the order .. adds a week to delivery tho