Dell laptops are getting pricy ! :) - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: jpb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2018, 06:31:59 pm
content: Was just browsing the dell uk website and found that the base price for the 5530 is apparently over 13 million pounds!Screen shot attached.

author: JackJones
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2018, 06:35:38 pm
content: Marked down from £20M, a bargain!

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2018, 08:34:51 pm
content: Engineered to excel. Designed to impress.Ventilation looks good with two heatpipes and fans on both ends.Intel HD Graphics, for that price?I am NOT impressedLooking at the cost of the processors and memory and SSD's that cost a tiny tiny fraction I thought £13m was a mistake but no.

author: DimitriP
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2018, 08:47:28 pm
content: Adding it to the basket takes 35% off ( - £3,500,753.08 )Now that's a deal !

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2018, 09:02:41 pm
content: Does it qualify for free shipping?

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2018, 09:04:48 pm
content: Discount of 81.79 for going with Linux? That actually seems like a lot.

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2018, 10:30:24 pm
content: Sounds like you are paying for the design which seems dis-proportional to the hardware.I think it is more of a mistake and the on site charges are set automatically.2 Year basic onsite service £0QuoteJust as much as the design.I wouldn't want my laptop thin so it can be bent easily.Looking at the illustration I see one board.What value will that depreciate to after 5 years?On the other hand doing a simple search shows sites selling less than £2016.89There is a news site that confirmed it but they put it in dollars instead of pounds.https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/07/dell_13m_precision_5530/I wonder what they are playing at.Sorry forgot and just attached image.

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 07, 2018, 11:45:54 pm
content: That is apparently special pricing for the old Dart as Dave would say. Only a 100 fold increase over pricing for us 'muricans.

author: TERRA Operative
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2018, 08:20:15 am
content: Intel graphics on a Precision?!?No option for Quadro? I wouldn't have bothered purchasing my last two if there wasn't the option for a discreet GPU....

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2018, 03:08:40 pm
content: Quote from: TERRA Operative on November 08, 2018, 08:20:15 amPrecision 5530"With enhanced graphics".Intel HD graphics found in everything else.Now That isSnakeoil.I would also like a pointing stick and some dedicated buttons than a slidy touchpad.It certainly doesn't impress me.

author: vtwin@cox.net
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2018, 04:17:12 pm
content: ...and I thought my $11,000 Precision 7720 laptop was expensive.

author: TERRA Operative
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2018, 04:31:06 pm
content: I'm currently rocking a 4k screen, Xeon CPU Precision 7520, managed to get a US model shipped to my sister in law in Manhattan who then brought it over when she visited.It was double the price here in Japan!

author: TheNewLab
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 08:02:01 am
content: Ha! Ha!That looks like a manufacturer or authorized distributor adI have seen items repeatedly listed 10, 100, 1000 times over price..Chinese sellers sometimes do not know where to but the decimal mark US, or mix up decimal and comma.I learned that business sellers use high price as a place marker when out of stock, (avoid having to re-enter everything?)

author: Wan Huang Luo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 04:46:55 pm
content: There have been times that I went to computer makers' websites and customized the crap out of a machine to see how expensive I can get it. I think my record was about $64,000 for a Mac Pro a number of years ago

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 04:49:41 pm
content: Or maybe that's when you buy from Venezuela...

author: Wan Huang Luo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 04:50:55 pm
content: Quote from: TheNewLab on November 09, 2018, 08:02:01 amYeah, they learned quickly that pricing things at 0.00 or something low like that ends up getting 100,000 orders within the hour; that results in a lot of angry customers when the orders are inevitably canceled.