[geeks] Cheap Octocore

[Mark]

On 23 Oct 2007, at 20:00, Francois Dion wrote:

> On 10/23/07, Mark <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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!
>
> It is even more convoluted than meets the eye. They run promotions,
> but also if you are a company with a "premium" account, once you are
> hooked, then they start offering machines  at higher prices than joe
> public would pay until you complain.

Yeh, I know, I run IT for a company with a business account at Dell  
UK :) Suffice to say I ALWAYS screw Dell down on prices, and I use HP  
(not that I'd buy one) and Lenovo (I would buy them if they were  
cheaper than Dell) comparison systems for leverage, so they have no  
excuses :)

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