[geeks] Cheap Octocore

[Mark]

On 23 Oct 2007, at 19:32, Francois Dion wrote:

> On 10/23/07, Mark <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 23 Oct 2007, at 01:05, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
>>
>>> "Dell Small Business offers the Dell PowerEdge SC1430
>>> 8-Core Xeon 1.6GHz Server for $729. With $19 for
>>> shipping, that matches our last mention as the lowest
>>> price we've seen for this eight-core system by $270."
>>
>> Funny, I went through the configurator and couldn't get it any lower
>> than $1427 with 8-core and 1GB RAM, 80GB hard drive and jack-all
>> else. Another one of Dell's 'the price looks so good how could you
>> not, even thought it's actually double that' offers?
>
> Actually, select the base unit which comes with 1 xeon 5110, then
> select the 5310 on cpu 1 and 5310 on cpu 2. You probably selected the
> 5330 cpus?

And thus we encounter Dell gripe number 2 - STUPIDLY complicated  
pricing!

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