Use this coupon code (Exp. 3/31): 4C302HG5G265CZ (As noted, this is a one-time-use coupon, max. 2 systems per order.)
$339 Inspiron 1501 Laptop ($399 - 15% off):
Mobile AMD Sempron 3600+ (2.0GHz) 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz (2 DIMMs) 80 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM) ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 256MB 6 Cell Primary Battery 8X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer Microsoft Works 8.5 with MS Office Trial 1390 Wireless Card 15.4 WXGA Display with TrueLife
3-5 day shipping is $19.95 (not bad) Sales tax is added (arrgh).
I snagged an Inspiron 1525 for $381 + shipping/tax. Sweet deal!
I'd yank Vista off it and install XP Home or Ubuntu for most stuff. Sempron is kinda weak for Vista. Heck, even my Core2Duo 2GHz lappy stutters on circa 1999 games in Vista! (Same games play smoothly on 8-year-old Pentium III).
I've purchased 3 refurbished laptops from Dell in the past 2 months. Every one of them was in excellent-to-flawless condition. No dead pixels, no scratches - nothing. One of them still had protective plastic covering the palmrests - probably never been used.
YMMV, of course; but I've had very good luck. Dell offers 100% refund, including shipping and tax, within 21 days of placing your order. So there's not much risk, really.
DJ2 said: skyfeng25 said: OP put a joke here 4 this price i can get a new Dell 1500 with C2D.
Sure can, for $449, check the front page.
Correct me if I'm wrong; but $449 is $110 more than $339. You don't need an nVidia video card or a Core 2 Duo to have a useful computer, now do you? My Mom won't care. Most people don't.
Nemesys said: DJ2 said: skyfeng25 said: OP put a joke here 4 this price i can get a new Dell 1500 with C2D.
Sure can, for $449, check the front page.
Correct me if I'm wrong; but $449 is $110 more than $339. You don't need an nVidia video card or a Core 2 Duo to have a useful computer, now do you? My Mom won't care. Most people don't.
People have a choice, they can buy what they want. I never said it was the same price, check my post, thanks.
mdburkey
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 27, 2008 @ 4:47p
svallarian said: gotta watch those amds tk-55s too. They stutter playing full screen video in vista.
An Athlon X2 TK55 should have NO trouble playing full screen video in Vista -- unless you are dealing with HDDVD/Blu-Ray which might be a bit rough. That said, it might stutter when thrashing to disk if you only have 1Gb or less of memory. For Vista, anything less than 2Gb is painful.
Also, the $399 price is merely a sample -- and actually a pretty bad one. Dell hasn't jacked up the prices since yesterday, it's just that the lower priced units are getting grabbed more quickly right now as soon as they are "dropped" into the Outlet.
I picked up a 1520 Core2Duo 1.6 w/WorksPlus 2008 earlier today for $429-15% = $364 and a 1501 w/Athlon X2 MK55, 80Gb, DVDRW for $349-15% = $296!
troop said: I have got them for $259 before. You havn't even seen cheap yet. You must be equipped as well as De1l refurb resellers are, or extremely lucky. Doesn't even count as a deal.
mdburkey said: An Athlon X2 TK55 should have NO trouble playing full screen video in Vista -- unless you are dealing with HDDVD/Blu-Ray which might be a bit rough. That said, it might stutter when thrashing to disk if you only have 1Gb or less of memory. For Vista, anything less than 2Gb is painful.
Yeah, I know it should, most people would think that. I've seen it on one of the many laptops i've bought and it was confirmed by paul thurrott in one of the windows weekly podcasts.
If you cut of Aero, it runs fine. Might be due to the craptastic Ati 1150.
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