"ScottW" wrote

I don't find Dell prices competitive.

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

No name clone from a little PC store around the corner.
They actually built me a machine with my spec'd parts
for about $100 less than I could by the parts on E-bay
buy it now.

Makes me wonder how your vendor makes a living on
such slim margins. This probably explains why Arny
is so frugal .


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?

They're already overpriced and you want to pay more?

It’s a business expense so it doesn’t much matter what
the final cost is if you make up for it in improved efficiency.
OTOH, I’m not into gaming and wouldn’t spend any
disposable income supporting such an activity. Heck, I
even find casino gambling boring.