That bloody Dell laptop now £292 (as low as £279!!)-EDITED FIRST POST

monkeyspanner

Just had another look at these deals and here for what its worth is a summary.

The basic deal with CDR/W DVD combo and no WIFI has disappeared and
N03135a and N03135b are discontinued.

There are 7 deal codes I can find which build on the base code of N03135. Of these I think there are two pairs of identical offerings with different codes and in one case substantially different prices (please post correction if I have missed something with these specs). The prices of each code are different in some cases if accessed from Home or Small Business systems this seems to be down to whether free delivery is offered.

The codes in order of increasing spec are (prices given include vat and delivery and have been adjusted to 90 days collect warantee).

N03135 Home £348.47 small Business £288.47
1.5G Celeron M
256 RAM
40G HD
14.1 Screen
8xDVD R/W
WIFI

N03136 Home £399.12 Small Business £339.13
512 RAM
15.4 Screen

N03132 Home £410.08 Small Business £470.07
NB Don't use this code upgrade from N03136 Small Business for £392
512 RAM
60G HD
15.4 Screen

N03132a Home £445.33 Small Business £445.33
N03136a Home £499.00 Small Business £439.00
1024 RAM
60G HD
15.4 Screen

N03133 Home £586.33 Small Business £586.33
N03137 Home £588.99 Small Business £588.99
1.7 Pentium M 735A
1024 RAM
80G HD
15.4 Screen

I hope this helps to identify the best deals for which I have used italics against each code.

Nesima

MonkeySpanner - there is definately something strangely addictive about Dell's ever changing pricing policy and juggling of specs.

Thanks for taking the time to summarise the current state of play.

I think the N03132 with the bigger battery offers the best value for money deal at £422 including VAT and Delivery via the HOME section:
Celeron 370, 512mb RAM, 60Gb HD & 15.4" Screen, 8X DVD +/- RW

monkeyspanner

Nesima wrote:

MonkeySpanner - there is definately something strangely addictive about Dell's ever changing pricing policy and juggling of specs.

Thanks for taking the time to summarise the current state of play.

I think the N03132 with the bigger battery offers the best value for money deal at £422 including VAT and Delivery via the HOME section:
Celeron 370, 512mb RAM, 60Gb HD & 15.4" Screen, 8X DVD +/- RW

Yes, I'll have to go cold turkey. incidentally you can get the spec you mentioned by using N03136 in the small business section and upgrading HD and battery. Works out at £404. Couldn't resist that!

milgo

Hi, has anybody found a good price for a 1GB stick of ram for this laptop? Thanks.

MickKnipfler

I tried 3135 but it's ading on £60 shipping???

peter_the_piper

I must admit I didn't believe we would get this but I have just rec'd the PDF confirmation. Deliverys 29th , a bit long but worth the wait. I hope.

Roger_Rampant

I tried 3135 but it's ading on £60 shipping???

I just tried it in the Small Business section, it added shipping but it also took it off

talkshop

milgo wrote:

Hi, has anybody found a good price for a 1GB stick of ram for this laptop? Thanks.

Cheapest way to get 1GB is to get 2 of these :-

http://www.lowestonweb.com/Products/DisplayInfoMain.asp?e=E42351D9-AB2C-478A-9F01-36CA17D9469D&td=1

alikat_3

Personally, I wouldn't touch a Dell laptop unless it was given to me. Ebay can be very good for decent but older/reconditioned laptops, although I would advise buying from a merchant as private sellers maybe trying to get rid of a machine that is on it's way out.

I've had 4 laptops from new to old & my best buy was a reconditioned T22 IBM which I bought on Ebay for £220 2+ years ago & still works like a dream as T series IBM's are great machines unlike Dells.

Drawbacks of older laptops is USB ports the T22 only has one, but otherwise a great machine that was made to last & holds it's money if I wanted to resell.

Jersy

alikat while that may b true the price of this dell laptop is unbelievable.

rite now i cant afford it as im a student and tryin to clear my car insurance before i spend anymore money, however, as someone said eearlier in this thread dell always have good offers on, and now that laptops ahve gone sub 300 (all be it you need to go 2 350) to get that extra wee bit of ram,

hopefully when june/july sort of time comes they will have a decent processor and none of this celeron !!!!e.