"ScottW" wrote

I don't find Dell prices competitive.

What brand names do you find more competitive?
What did you purchase?


They did have a great deal on a large flat panel
the guys at work were raving about recently.
Some 21" for $800 in their business section.

I purchased a 17" Dell plasma last summer, works
fine. But I thought CRT’s were better for gaming
applications, no? I wouldn’t recommend plasma
for any type of graphic intensive application like
Photoshop.


Look at their system prices.
The dimension 8300 is kind of competitive
but the XPS is a joke. Most people won't see
any difference in these machines performance
(especially with a memory upgrade in the 8300)
yet they are almost 2x delta in price.

Don’t know anything about the Dell Dimension series.
The Workstation series, for example, offers multiple
configurations of all the major computer components.


Both have a crappy vid card BTW.
For the price the XPS should have an
ATI 9800.

On the custom Dells you can get a variety of high
end video card options... what's the problem?