This is a smoking hot deal I found on Slickdeals.net Dell Home has the Dimension E510 Pentium D Dual Core 2.8GHz Desktop w/ 19" LCD for $1019 - 40% off coupon 0GZ2BWCB57W9LV - $35 off $300 ebay coupon = $576 w/ free shipping. If you have a DPA account, apply code TH136J13GHNBM1 for $25 off $999 which drops your price to $551. Thanks CrazyCow, mike 01hawk & aroot. Remember to upgrade to 19" Analog LCD and DVDRW Drive. Specs: Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB) Windows® XP Media Center 2005 Edition 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x256M) 19 inch E196FP Analog Flat Panel 128MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X300 SE HyperMemory 80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet 56K PCI Data Fax Modem 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio 1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr At-Home Service, and 1Yr HW Warranty Support The coupon gives you 40% off upgrades so I upgraded mine to 20 monitor, 160gb hard drive, 1 gig of ram, 256mb video card, etc. I do not have a dell preffered account so I did not get the final 25 off but this is a great deal regardless.
hmm, may have to check that out. i visit slickdeals also, and man its a hassle to read the dell thread.
The thing about Dell is even if you miss this deal, they'll have another one right around the corner... the deal takes many forms : 35% off, $750 off, or a combination of "free monitor", "free upgrades", etc. When you do the numbers they all end up being the same deal. FYI, I helped someone price a deal for a system very similar to what you have posted for about $625 during a $400 off deal or something they had about a month ago.
Do you work for Dell by any chance Dr of Dunk? If so, any hints as to when the next 750 off 1499 coupon will be coming out?
I have noticed that too. I wonder what percentage of their sales are to customers who pay regular price?
that must be the new computer my parents got that i am currently typing on b/c it's a dell and has a lot of the same specs and was just a little over $600 (i'm guessing with upgrades b/c this does have 1 GB of RAM). definitely a nice change from the old one.
Sweet. Looks like I might get the Dimension instead of an XPS. Really shouldn't but it's so tempting. So tempting...
Actually that deal went dead, after like an hour after the OP posted this. Dell had about 4000 coupons available, and after that they reduced the coupon to 20% instead of the original 40%. I was just about to buy that comp. when i realized the deal was dead. I guess I'll have to wait some more time, for another good deal. The real reason why this deal was so good, was because there was no rebate involved.
Eh, oh well. Sucks, but I wanted a bit more in my CPU anyway. Yeah, I'll just wait for another week or 2 I'm sure another bargain will come around.
These deals do come out often.... I'd get a warranty beyond 1 year. My powersupply fan blew out in 16 months and it's been downhill with the "bargain" I bought. Their customer service sucks if the warranty's expired and isn't that great when it isn't. Hindsight's 20/20.
Those $750 off coupons tend to come out the last month of Dells fiscal quarter, so that would mean april.
I just ordered a DELL XPS 400 for about $200 more. Upgraded to the 19" flat panel monitor, free shipping, no interest for 18 months with the Dell Preferred Account. It's slightly bigger than the default config... 3.0 GHZ ViiV processor, 250 GB Hard Drive, 13in1 media card reader, DVD-RW and DVD ROM, 5.1 surround sound with firewire port, and 2gb of RAM. EDIT: Maybe mine was slightly more because I had a TV-TUNER card and a firewire port on the sound card and also got more memory and more hard drive space? Since I am a Higher Education price, I got some 15% off the regular price. It's getting to Katy on Wednesday... wished you had posted the coupons earlier, and I would have used them, but since I am already using the Higher Ed. price, the coupons would not work... or would they...? I have never, ever had major problems with my current Dell Dimension XPS T800r, and never had bad customer experiences with them. A lot other people whom I talk to have had their PCs go bad on them... wonder why...
I'm waiting until Microsoft's new operating system, Vista, comes out (when is that? this summer?) before seriously considering a new PC. I recently upgraded my old AGP system, so it'll probably be at least a year. I could use a new laptop before then, however. These deals come around. I bought my son a Dell laptop for his birthday last year, and used a $750 off coupon. Those deals happening at the end of the quarter is probably correct, because I think that's when I ordered it.
There was one in December. They're usually for systems priced at at least $1500 or $1999 from what I recall. But that's the key... you can get 35-40% coupon deals (that comes to what? Like $500-$600 off) and with those you sometimes get free shipping or don't get low end RAM or monitors. In the end don't just compare the $ or % off, look at what you're getting for the price... sometimes they come with 256MB of RAM... other times 512... sometimes with a CD player, other times DVD RW. In the end, my bet is most of these deals are very very similar whether they be 35-40% off, $750 off, or whatever...
After one year of owning a Dell computer I've had the following problems: - Hard drive crash after 3 weeks - Two video card failures - Monitor burn out - Cooling system failure - Motherboard failure For the love of God, do not buy a Dell.
And I've been running the same Dell for four years straight with no issues at all (and a Dell laptop for a year and a half now with no issues). Every company makes some lemons now and again. Name any company, somebody's going to have a horror story about them, especially a company that sells as many machines as Dell does.
