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Dell UK Outlet: XPS 13" Core i5 Ultrabook for €770 Delivered (save €380)
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24-08-2012 11:58am#1http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearch.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh&brandid=7&fid=1422 (2nd one down)
from £501.63 plus VAT & Del.
if you inc. VAT and the free delivery to the north via parcel motel, it comes out at a little under €770 all in.
for your money, you get an as new refurb (or possibly even a cancelled delivery, never actually touched by a customer
) with the following spec:XPS 13
Processor: Intel Core i5-2467M (1.60 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 2.30 GHz)
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium
4 GB Single Channel 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM (1 DIMM)
Hard Drive: 128 GB Solid State Drive Mini Card
Display: 13.3in Hi-Def (720p) True Life WLED Display with Skype-Certified 1.3MP Hi-Def Webcam
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 (Quad Core)
English Genuine Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium (64Bit OS)
Back Up Media Not Included
Wireless: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 (2x2 b/g/+ Bluetooth Combo Card)
Battery : Primary 6-cell 47W/HR LI-ION
Internal Qwerty Backlit Keyboard
there's also one with a 256gb SSD instead of the 128gb one for another £50 odd.
if you want the same laptop from Dell Ireland http://www.dell.com/ie/p/xps-13-l321x/pd it'll cost you €1150 inc. VAT & Delivery, so I reckon it's a pretty good saving if you ask me.
according to jesus_thats_gre from post #11 in this thread, if you put in the first line of your actual address in the billing address and use the delivery address for the rest, payment will go through okay.
i've only got my order confirmation so far, so i don't know if it's going to work or not, but i'm hopefully optimistic.
the XPS13 seems to be being targeted directly at the sort of people who might buy a 13" macbook air, but that would cost you €1300 for more or less the same spec. this way, I get size, performance and the looks of a macbook air for almost half the cost AND without actually having to go out and buy a mac.
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I'm a little disappointed myself tbh.
nearly 400 quid off an €1150 ultraportable (which are projected to account for up to 50% of laptop sales in 2012) and not a sniff of interest off anyone.
Ah well, can't win them all I guess.0 -
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I'm a little disappointed myself tbh.
nearly 400 quid off an €1150 ultraportable (which are projected to account for up to 50% of laptop sales in 2012) and not a sniff of interest off anyone.
Ah well, can't win them all I guess.
It's a very good deal!
I nearly bought one myself but was put off by (1) Screen Resolution (2) Non upgradable RAM and (3) Ivy Bridge processor.
But it's still a very good ultrabook and realistically I doubt I'd be able to tell that much of a difference performance wise between it and the one I went for in the end, which cost me not a million miles off twice the price:)0 -
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The plan is to use it to replace my wife's recently decreased 10.1" Samsung nc10 netbook, so I think she'll be more than happy with it.
She loves the look of the MacBook air, but I know that osx would wreck her head, so paying half the price for more or less the same thing but with Windows on it will be ideal.
I had been hoping to find something ultrabook sized but with a convertible rotating touchscreen to turn it into a part time tablet like some of the new Lenovo notebooks I've seen, but the only one I could find (a Lenovo) was to big and too expensive.
If someone could do something like that I'd be very happy. 0 -
I had been hoping to find something ultrabook sized but with a convertible rotating touchscreen to turn it into a part time tablet like some of the new Lenovo notebooks I've seen, but the only one I could find (a Lenovo) was to big and too expensive.
If someone could do something like that I'd be very happy.
you probably know about the asus transformer but i thought i'd mention it just in case you dont0 -
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it's the Dell outlet store, you don't get a choice, you have to take what they have on offer.missmoleman wrote: »PS, I'd go for the 256GB one over the 128Gb.
You'll run out of space pretty quickly with the 128Gb!
And 128gb is plenty. It'll be replacing a netbook with a 60gb ssd that still has plenty of free space on it and I have a 10tb NAS in the attic so I'm doing okay for storage.
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Alanstrainor wrote: »Definitely not. It might have a hybrid hard disk with 32GB SSD.
Was thinking that
.. Would it suit my needs though? Wouldnt mind playing CS: GO on it 0 -
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see if you think you can live with it. it's got integrated intel 4000 gfx chip. here's some benchmarking and more info on it: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-4000-Benchmarked.73567.0.htmlWarZoneBrother wrote: »Was thinking that .. Would it suit my needs though? Wouldnt mind playing CS: GO on it0 -
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it's the Dell outlet store, you don't get a choice, you have to take what they have on offer.
And 128gb is plenty. It'll be replacing a netbook with a 60gb ssd that still has plenty of free space on it and I have a 10tb NAS in the attic so I'm doing okay for storage.
And i thought i was great with my 2TB NAS Drive. I love those things , makes my laptop phone and ipad all have 2TB of shared storage.
Its what cloud computing should be :P0 -
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my first NAS was a 7 bay Thecus N7700, but I wouldn't recommend them for anything other than straight file sharing. if you want bells and whistles, go for a synology device.And i thought i was great with my 2TB NAS Drive. I love those things , makes my laptop phone and ipad all have 2TB of shared storage.
Its what cloud computing should be :P
my current NAS was a self built FreeNAS server with 8x 2tb disks which gives me 10.7tb of usable storage with dual parity, so I can survive the failure of up to 2 of the 8 disks at the same time and without losing any data. 0 -
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i think only the first line of the address is checked, so if you put that in it should work.so I'll just have to wait and see.If worse comes to worst I have a friend of a friend in NI who could probably order for me.
If it does go through I'm happy enough to take the risk of having limited insurance for the trip from Parcel Motel's NI depot to Dublin as they seem to be very reliable.
Has anyone actually succeeded in ordering from the UK Dell outlet with an Irish credit card/Parcel Motel?
the other thing is, i think if you get a particular address on file with your CC company ahead of time, they will still authorise it.
*neither of these things may actually work*
i got a call about my order and ended up cancelling it and i was planning on getting the asus transformer infinity instead, but amazon are farting around with it and even tho it went on sale officially on 10th sept. (with a UK amazon exclusive sales deal with asus) only a few early pre-orders seem to have gone out so far and the only one on there ATM is with a french azerty keyboard. komplett have the US/International version, but I like my @ key in the right place. 0 -
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i read another thread about purchasing from the dell outlet store that mentioned that the first line of the address was the only one that is checked to authenticate the card and that if you put it in the billing address as a UK address but use the first line of your own address in it, it will go through okay.Sorry vibe666 I'm not 100% clear - did you actually order from the Dell UK outlet using the first line of your address as in this post I found a few minutes ago?
Did Dell then call you because they thought the order looked dodgy?
HOWEVER i got a call back to say it hadn't gone through, but i'm not sure if it was due to my available credit being too low (it was slightly over my limit, but those transactions usually go through okay) or due to the address problems.
by the time they called me i'd already decided not to pursue it if it didn't go through first time, so i never bothered to check the reason it was declined with my bank.
i have also read elsewhere that as long as a delivery address that is different from your billing address (i.e. UK parcel motel address) is registered as a valid delivery address with your credit card company, that these authorisation checks will go through okay.
i have never actually bothered to test it out though so i can't confirm 100% that either of the above methods will work. 0 -
i read another thread about purchasing from the dell outlet store that mentioned that the first line of the address was the only one that is checked to authenticate the card and that if you put it in the billing address as a UK address but use the first line of your own address in it, it will go through okay.
HOWEVER i got a call back to say it hadn't gone through, but i'm not sure if it was due to my available credit being too low (it was slightly over my limit, but those transactions usually go through okay) or due to the address problems.
by the time they called me i'd already decided not to pursue it if it didn't go through first time, so i never bothered to check the reason it was declined with my bank.
i have also read elsewhere that as long as a delivery address that is different from your billing address (i.e. UK parcel motel address) is registered as a valid delivery address with your credit card company, that these authorisation checks will go through okay.
i have never actually bothered to test it out though so i can't confirm 100% that either of the above methods will work.
the problem will be the payment going through ROI bank, not UK one.0 -
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