Dell Laptop Offers

[Spinal]

My other half wants to buy a laptop, and she like's the Dell Inspiron 15" (the pink ones... )

For her needs the cheap and cheerful £349 would work (15.6"screen, 3GB ram, 2GHz Duo processor and 160GB HD) that said, I know that there are quite a few people here that know of insider offers

Anyone know of a free shipping, free colour scheme or omething similar for Dell?

Pwease?

Thanks,
M.

 

[Gollom]

My other half wants to buy a laptop, and she like's the Dell Inspiron 15" (the pink ones... )

For her needs the cheap and cheerful £349 would work (15.6"screen, 3GB ram, 2GHz Duo processor and 160GB HD) that said, I know that there are quite a few people here that know of insider offers

Anyone know of a free shipping, free colour scheme or omething similar for Dell?

Pwease?

Thanks,
M.

If I recall, you can get "skins" to go over most laptops that give you whatever colour/pattern you want! I'll have a browse

Steve

Edit: Faster than a speeding bullet

http://www.lapjacks.com/
http://www.backslaps.co.uk/

Of course, I could have totally misunderstood what you were asking!

 

[Spinal]

I like the concept - but I was thinking more of a whole machine rather than a skin

She's worried about the colour, my task is to "take care" of the insides

I may get one of those skins for my MBP though...

M.

 

[crockers]

Have you tried calling them - getting them to spec the model you want -- then before you decide ask them if they will do it in pink and free delivery ....if they say no then you haven't lost anything -- but they may just say ok to close the deal.

 

[et0609]

Phone them up and haggle over it. Thats what I did and Dell gave me £100 off and free shipping. They are keen to sell and I think I remember reading somewhere that Dell were suffering a bit with the credit crunch so I would think they will be keen to do a deal.

 

[robert.saunders]

agree re: the telephone call, my Dell laptops have always been specced online and then I do the deal by phone, get more memory, or different drive, or a free bag and delivery etc

 

[bennesspipers]

Go to Currys, tend to be cheaper than buying direct from Dell , I bought my dell 1545 from 'em

 

[Chrishazle]

Dell have an "outlet" section to their UK website that is worth a look - I've bought 3 or 4 desktops from it over the years. That said, I did better last year at PC World buying my wife's Dell Inspiron 1702 - and personally I think the extra size of screen is great compared to a 15"! Also gives space for a seperate number pad, which I like a lot. If nothing else, somewhere like PC World lets you actually see and touch the beast, even if you buy elsewhere!

 

[Dryce]

Go to Currys, tend to be cheaper than buying direct from Dell , I bought my dell 1545 from 'em

Well that made me fall of my seat. Ouch.

Last time I was speccing up Dell laptops the same model machines at PC World (and by inference Currys) were way over in terms of cost and well under in terms of spec.

Be very careful if you take the above advice.

 

[Dryce]

Dell have an "outlet" section to their UK website that is worth a look - I've bought 3 or 4 desktops from it over the years.

Again as you infer - be careful. Any time I've been looking the outlet has been poor value.

 

[bennesspipers]

Hi Dryce, at the time of buying mine, i rang Dell, & they wanted £80 more than Currys had it on offer for.

 

[Spinal]

Thanks for all the advice, will give them a call asap

bennesspipers: Thanks for the advice, but I would never go near currys. I had a few bad experiences with their after-sales customer care a few years ago, and vowed never to buy there again; even should they be the cheapest.

M.

 

[bhartv]

Yes lots of places you can pick up Dell laptops and accessories for a lot cheaper than what Dell charge direct.