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How in the world are any of these laptops a substantially better deal than this walk in, no rebate Toshiba at Best Buy? I bought one of these last week, and it's a heck of a nice laptop for $449. I even upgraded the memory to 2GBs cheap.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...+A205&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1196470792281
fyi: you cannot buy latitudes (or anything from business categories) unless you have a business tax id.
bullshit.
It basically just means that illegal idiots can't buy from Dell small business. If you're a legal idiot, a citizen, or even an illegal alien, you should have no trouble purchasing through dell small business.
What the fuck are you talking about?
The Dell's have full-blown Core 2 Duo processors instead of Pentium Dual-cores, have dedicated gfx chips, Windows XP, and also are just generally built better.
How in the world are any of these laptops a substantially better deal than this walk in, no rebate Toshiba at Best Buy? I bought one of these last week, and it's a heck of a nice laptop for $449. I even upgraded the memory to 2GBs cheap.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...+A205&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1196470792281
Hmmm... interesting about the dedicated gfx chips, as it appears that only one of the three has a dedicated graffics chip (the D820). The others use the same onboard video as the Toshiba, the IBM X3100.
Yes, these are Core2 Duos.... but the Toshiba came with a DL DVD+-R/W, 120GB HDD, and the 15.4" screen. I've had a Dell. I've had an IBM. I've had a Sony. I've had a Gateway. And I've had Compaqs. The Toshiba feels a bit flimsier than all but the Vaio (VERY early, 12" Vaio ultralight), yes... because it's the lightest I've ever had other than the Vaio. The Compaqs were both DTRs. The IBM was a rugged piece of work (I'll grant super high quality on that!) The Gateway always felt like it was going to fall apart, but took abuse and never did. The Dell just feels... I don't know... blah? Maybe because it's a work laptop.
The Core 2 Duo was a big thing to me; I really did want one. But at the price difference, for the features, I can't see that these Dells are a bargain compared to the Toshiba. Now, if the Dells had a DL +-DVDRW, had the 15.4" and the 120GB 5400RPM drive, maybe. As someone who's been using XP a LONG time, Vista Home Premium is a bit different, but not to the point that I'd get rid of it YET (hasn't annoyed me that much) especially with Vista SP1 coming RSN; I'm still making up my mind on it. But I've got at least three unused licenses for XP Pro I could slap on this puppy if it came to that at this point. And I have to say that this was the easiest laptop I've ever had to get connected to my wireless at home.
Anybody have the battery life on either the D620 or D820? Real battery life too, not the crap review sites give out.
I have a D600 which gets about 1:50 minutes of class time use. Its balls.
no complaints, its holding up well. On the other hand, I had a loaner D620 until my D630 was delivered, and it was pretty unstable. Not sure on the specs tho, I think the apps I was running really taxed it. For basic lappy functions, they re probably fine.
Anybody have the battery life on either the D620 or D820? Real battery life too, not the crap review sites give out.
I have a D600 which gets about 1:50 minutes of class time use. Its balls.
fyi: you cannot buy latitudes (or anything from business categories) unless you have a business tax id.
Jesus... everyone's flaming me. Folks, you cannot buy from Dell Business unless dell thinks you're a business. I'm sure there's ways around it, but in my experience the average joe consumer is prevented from purchasing.
I was a contractor for several years, and tried a number of times to buy equipment from dell for my "business use" but was denied because being 1099 and schedule C is not enough. I don't recall exactly if it was the tax id or the business license # or whatever.
So far, everyone I know that has a dell business machine for personal use got it through work, employee purchase, or actually run their own business (formally; pay seperate taxes on it, etc). If you're none of these things and still bought one direct from dell, tell us how.
Jesus... everyone's flaming me. Folks, you cannot buy from Dell Business unless dell thinks you're a business. I'm sure there's ways around it, but in my experience the average joe consumer is prevented from purchasing.
I was a contractor for several years, and tried a number of times to buy equipment from dell for my "business use" but was denied because being 1099 and schedule C is not enough. I don't recall exactly if it was the tax id or the business license # or whatever.
So far, everyone I know that has a dell business machine for personal use got it through work, employee purchase, or actually run their own business (formally; pay seperate taxes on it, etc). If you're none of these things and still bought one direct from dell, tell us how.
Hello, can you read?
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Sorry dude, you are wrong
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Well, maybe you can. I haven't tried in a while, but since then I see what goes on in corporate purchasing and the latitude/business sales is handled differently at dell.
As far as your foaming-at-the-mouth diatribe goes, lighten up. You're going to make people think you have a small toolkit, t-man.