Dell 17" widescreen Inspiron 9300 £699 delivered - extended to 27 July

nedski · 22 July 2005 at 4:15AM

Hmm, nice looking deal!

Coupla hints on this... if you want more memory don't bother fully upgrading with dell, you can save by buying some yourself seperately e.g. from crucial.com and it's easy to upgrade. E.g. you want 1024MB, well you want a matched pair, so upgrade to 1x512MB with dell and then buy a 512MB from crucial at £52ish, that way you save 40 odd quid.

You can do the same with the hard disk, although transferring the system across or reinstalling would require a bit more knowhow... worth it if u can tho.

Last point, it appears that https://www.quidco.com is offering 6% cashback for Dell in July, so it's even cheaper that way!

Sorely tempted...:cool:

nedski · 22 July 2005 at 4:31AM

redfox wrote:

the £629 price that urban_i mentioned was for a different item with the evalue code of N07931, and that £629 price excludes delivery and VAT.

The one I posted for £699 is evalue code N07935 and the price of £699 does include both delivery and VAT.

Hope that helps

If you take the £629 price thru to the checkout, the delivery is free until 27/7/05, so total price is £740 - £40 more. However, you get a free printer with this laptop, and an upgrade friendly 1x512MB mem already on board, which with the other offer would cost an extra £70. So if you are intending to upgrade the memory anyway, and/or want a printer for effectively 40 quid, then on balance it definitely seems the better deal... unless I'm missing something?

Cheers,
N.

isayoldchap · 22 July 2005 at 4:35AM

nedski wrote:

Hmm, nice looking deal!

Coupla hints on this... if you want more memory don't bother fully upgrading with dell, you can save by buying some yourself seperately e.g. from crucial.com and it's easy to upgrade. E.g. you want 1024MB, well you want a matched pair, so upgrade to 1x512MB with dell and then buy a 512MB from crucial at £52ish, that way you save 40 odd quid.

You can do the same with the hard disk, although transferring the system across or reinstalling would require a bit more knowhow... worth it if u can tho.

Last point, it appears that www.quidco.com is offering 6% cashback for Dell in July, so it's even cheaper that way!

Sorely tempted...:cool:

This is a hard decision.Do you go for the small amount of cashback offered by
the links above(and bighair),or do you opt for a nice cashback amount offered
by quidco?

Chuckles1066_2 · 22 July 2005 at 6:09AM

nedski wrote:

If you take the £629 price thru to the checkout, the delivery is free until 27/7/05, so total price is £740 - £40 more. However, you get a free printer with this laptop, and an upgrade friendly 1x512MB mem already on board, which with the other offer would cost an extra £70. So if you are intending to upgrade the memory anyway, and/or want a printer for effectively 40 quid, then on balance it definitely seems the better deal... unless I'm missing something?

Cheers,
N.

Well, the free printer is one that Dell periodically sell off on "special offer" for £9.99. It's very basic, doesn't include a USB cable and only comes with trial-sized ink cartridges.

Guess it depends on what value you place on the printer.

iwantitnow · 22 July 2005 at 8:20AM

isayoldchap wrote:

This is a hard decision.Do you go for the small amount of cashback offered by
the links above(and bighair),or do you opt for a nice cashback amount offered
by quidco?

Rpoints and Greasypalm are reliable the jury is still out on quidco

50% of something is better than 100% of nothing

nedski · 22 July 2005 at 11:08AM

Chuckles1066 wrote:

Well, the free printer is one that Dell periodically sell off on "special offer" for £9.99. It's very basic, doesn't include a USB cable and only comes with trial-sized ink cartridges.

Guess it depends on what value you place on the printer.

Yeah. For me the decider would be the upgradeability of the laptop - I'd want at least 1G of mem, and so going for the original option would work out dearer. So even without taking into account the printer, it's cheaper for me.

Anyone know of any reason why me as a private buyer wouldn't be able to get the small business deal?

N.

richto · 22 July 2005 at 11:13AM

You can get the small business deal - you just loose your rights under the distance selling act, etc.

richto · 22 July 2005 at 11:24AM

nb - if you are interested in high end specs for this laptop, then also look at the Inspiron XPS generation 2. eg evalue code 305 - N07XPS1 Expensive but very nice.