Will Dells prices go up after Christmas?
I second the slickdeals, and also recommend fatwallet (ONLY THE FORUMS — the rest of the site won’t help you at all). Register yourself on the forums (the searches are better) and check it AT LEAST two-three times a day (the good deals go fast). If you want to buy a new computer and aren’t on a budget, wait until you see a really good deal and then buy (you’ll know, because people in the forums will be freaking out about it — or well, as near to that as possible, since everyone on fw seems to think dell has started to have shitty deals lately). FW regularly has posts about items that sell out within the hour, so checking back often is well worth it. I’ve scored some massive deals from there — hell, my $40 no-rebate/coupon involved 120G PATA drive just showed up today (that one sold out in maybe 6 hours). Ben’s Bargains is also good. Really, after these sites, I can’t imagine buying something that’s simp
apple’s profits come from bundling great software products with overpriced hardware products (and from gadgets) the profit on a g5 is up to 50%.. it’s a sad fact the (my) solution to this problem is rather simple, the cheaper the puter you buy from apple the more you have to pay for apple software (and for updates and even upgrades) just selling macos thru dell would be stupid, but selling machines for prices relatively competitive to dell’s would be possible (the only difference would be the amount of machines they sell and the profit they want/need) and they all would run a free “starter version” of macos and xp (virtual and dual-boot xp, for a normal license price of ~100$) apple can continue to take extra money for smaller form factors, for exclusive stuff (like selling dual-core yonah notebooks before everybody else), for every piece of hardware/accessories that is not just relabeled “normal” stuff..
