OK, so IBM doesn't have notebooks available yet, and when they are they are $1500 more than a comparable that Dell has. Plus, Dell will have similar options soon. Sooner than you think. And for under 3 grand. Way under.
Dell will have comparable offers "Sooner than you think", huh? Please don't quote such things unless you have facts and specifics. Many people are waiting on this and are trying to make critical buying decisions. Unless you have real information that you're willing to share, comments like this are meaningless at best and potentially very misleading at worst.
The ThinkPad T41p with 128mb M10 is now on the IBM website, it is a good model expect of the 4800rpm hardrive. The price is 3600 us included tax, about 1000 more than a full loaded Dell. But it has a 128mb M10 and only 5lbs (I8600 is 7lbs). Good for those who can afford and needed a good performance laptop to carry around.
"Unless you have real information that you're willing to share"
Yes, you are right. There are a lot of junk info, conjecture and assumptions that go around boards like these. I won't post anything again unless I can release information that you can verify for yourself.
what i mean is the equivelent $3k laptop from IBM you were talking about will be well above 3k from dell. see, when you try to look at equivelent prices from the top of the line IBM, you cant compare it to the base cost for teh Dell computer. ill leave it to you to figure out why that is
Dell always has specials going on, which keep their prices somewhat low. Right now at the moment I have a 10% off coupon from the Small Business division. This is the second one I have gotten so far, this month, alone. I also always get 5% for Dell Small business purchases because of the AMEX OPEN thing. So that's 15% savings right there. Plus Dell usually has other specials going on. So even if the laptops reach $3K, you can usually lower it.
My current laptop= 1.7M, UXGA, 1024 DDR333, 60GIG 7200HD, 5650 Go 128mb, 1400 dual band wireless, cdrw-dvd combo, 3year at home with completecare. Price= 3150, considering you can take off 512 of ram and have top of the line it comes to 2600-2700 for an awesome dell.
I wouldn't get 1024MB RAM from Dell. They rip you off with RAM. I would rather order it with the least amount of RAM, which is 512MB for the 8600. Then I'd just order the RAM from Crucial.
Okay, I was surfing around looking at some notebooks from HP, and came across this model, the hp compaq business notebook nc6000. It comes with the Pentium M and has a ATI 9600 and is availabe now(late October).
The HP Compaq Business Notebook nc8000 users will appreciate the performance of Intel Pentium M processors, the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro graphics controller, large and fast hard drives, as well as support for a fixed optical drive and additional MultiBay device, and a breadth of integrated wired and wireless capabilities, which is in a sleek new form factor weighing about 6.5 pounds. This is also available now(late October), and comes with either a 64MB or 128MB ATI Radeon 9600 Pro.
jwindsurfer
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bbq1023
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October 28th, 2003 04:00
Here is the new: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/26/HNthinkibm_1.html
The IBM website do mention about the new products but their links is not leading to the right place. I guess they are fixing it now.
Firtol88
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October 28th, 2003 04:00
Now I've seen everything even "we must be DFL in GPUs" IBM is ahead of Dell... oh the shame of it!!!
jwindsurfer
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October 28th, 2003 14:00
JJCSEATTLE
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bbq1023
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TazExprez
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October 28th, 2003 21:00
jwindsurfer
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October 28th, 2003 21:00
"Unless you have real information that you're willing to share"
Yes, you are right. There are a lot of junk info, conjecture and assumptions that go around boards like these. I won't post anything again unless I can release information that you can verify for yourself.
DeaconSIx
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October 28th, 2003 21:00
plus jwindsurfer, Dell will never release a top of the line for under 3k, and definatly not way under. that information is erroneous
-D
jwindsurfer
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October 28th, 2003 22:00
"Dell will never release a top of the line for under 3k"
Not sure what you mean there. The current top of the line is the 8600, right? Prices starting at $1549. Minimum $1749 with the current top video card.
DeaconSIx
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October 28th, 2003 22:00
what i mean is the equivelent $3k laptop from IBM you were talking about will be well above 3k from dell. see, when you try to look at equivelent prices from the top of the line IBM, you cant compare it to the base cost for teh Dell computer. ill leave it to you to figure out why that is
-D
TazExprez
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kdawg8600
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TazExprez
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ArchStudent
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Okay, I was surfing around looking at some notebooks from HP, and came across this model, the hp compaq business notebook nc6000. It comes with the Pentium M and has a ATI 9600 and is availabe now(late October).
Here is the link:
http://www.hp.ca/products/static/notebooks/nc6000/index.php
The HP Compaq Business Notebook nc8000 users will appreciate the performance of Intel Pentium M processors, the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro graphics controller, large and fast hard drives, as well as support for a fixed optical drive and additional MultiBay device, and a breadth of integrated wired and wireless capabilities, which is in a sleek new form factor weighing about 6.5 pounds. This is also available now(late October), and comes with either a 64MB or 128MB ATI Radeon 9600 Pro.
Here is the link:
http://www.hp.ca/products/static/notebooks/nc8000/index.php