Dell Vostro T8300 8600 for £580 good deal?

Snubber · 2 Mar 2008 at 13:06

Full spec as follows:

C2D T8300
3Gb RAM
1440x900 15" display
250Gb HDD
256Mb 8600M GT DDR2
9 Cell Battery
Win XP Pro

Price inc VAT and delivery £580

Looks like a great deal, granted the XPS M1530 with similar CPU will be quicker due to DDR3 on the 8600 GPU - but will also be a couple hundred quid more.

Any thoughts?

easyrider · 2 Mar 2008 at 14:10

looks good

save some money and get the 8100 and a 17" screen

aeT · 4 Mar 2008 at 11:02

Snubber said:
Full spec as follows:

C2D T8300
3Gb RAM
1440x900 15" display
250Gb HDD
256Mb 8600M GT DDR2
9 Cell Battery
Win XP Pro

Price inc VAT and delivery £580

Looks like a great deal, granted the XPS M1530 with similar CPU will be quicker due to DDR3 on the 8600 GPU - but will also be a couple hundred quid more.

Any thoughts?

Was just browsing the dell site and saw that same Vostro 1500 spec for £527.58 delivered.

*EDIT*

Ignore that, was ex vat. I'm a moron. Updated.

fish99 · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:24

aeT said:
Was just browsing the dell site and saw that same Vostro 1500 spec for £449 delivered.

On the outlet?

aeT · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:29

Not on the outlet. I think this is competitor linkage though, so best not do anything silly.

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tom_e · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:30

fish99 said:
On the outlet?

Nope on the normal site which makes me sad becasue thats a much better deal than the one i ordered at the end of last week

aeT · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:31

blitz2163 said:
Nope on the normal site which makes me sad becasue thats a much better deal than the one i ordered at the end of last week

Hate it when that happens

Richard_16v · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:50

Cancel and re-order

tom_e · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:54

its already been shipped

I may try the distance selling regualtions but not sure if its worth the hasstle and the extra wait

aeT · 4 Mar 2008 at 13:21

If it eases your mind, it was £528 delivered.

VAT > me

Richard_16v · 4 Mar 2008 at 13:57

blitz2163 said:
its already been shipped I may try the distance selling regualtions but not sure if its worth the hasstle and the extra wait

I'm waiting for my 1530 to arrive from the Outlet, however I went with the 1680 screen so i'm worried i'll need to send it back if the screen is grainy

Still I hear that sending stuff back to Dell is easy so it shouldn't be too bad if I need to do it.