I caved in... (DUDE! He's getting a DELL!)

[strredwolf]

Christmas got me a few work shirts and pants that were nessisary in easing tension in the household... but...

I've caved in.

The cheapest, yet modern NVidia laptop would be $1500.  A Whitebook (no-OS, custom) would be $850 if I skimped on the processor and GPU.

Yet an ATI Radeon X1300 sporting Dell Inspiron E1505, with a Core Duo processor, only costs $870.  Under $900.  For a Core Duo!

So, I caved.  The laptop's being built now.

Comments

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

End of the year sales. They try to drive in the cash by buying a ton so they can offer massive low sales. I deal with their corporate folks on getting office systems, and know a bit about how they do it. The Core Duos actually bump up the price compared to the Pentium Ds, just because they can't get them as good a discount from Intel.

--Salen

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

That, and the delay in getting Vista out means they got to discount them and tack on "Free VISTA UPGRADE!" coupons just to get hardware out the door.

Doesn't matter to me now.