im in the market for a good laptop. would like to spend under $700. are the dell laptops this cheap because of the stock plummet and the whole defective battery fiasco? a few months ago i couldnt find a dell laptop for $700 without those $300 off $1000 deals. whats up with these prices? are there coupons out there to bring the price down even more?
2006-09-04 18:02:58 · 13 answers · asked by A C 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
The battery thing wasn't Dell's fault - Apple is dealing with the same issues with these units sourced from Sony.
But Dell is finally realizing they've spent too litle time, resources and attention on two crucial segments of the market:
1) consumers
2) laptops
Historically, Dell's bread and butter has been desktops for business...and now that the fastest growing segment fo the PC industry is consumers buying laptops (and currently, you can't find Dell laptops at most consumer retail outlets like you find HP, Toshiba, etc.), Dell is scrambling for a piece of the consumer laptops pie.
Bad for them, but great for consumers like you.
2006-09-04 18:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by Timothy W 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What Laura K said - they're bare bones and once you start configuring a Dell to a similar spec of something else, it's often not so cheap.
2006-09-05 09:56:30 · answer #2 · answered by special 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are cheap because they are bare-bones. Once you add money for a bigger hard-drive, a DVD burner, more memory, plus shipping and handling, they are not so cheap!
2006-09-05 01:06:11 · answer #3 · answered by Laura K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I bought one recently I like it and not very cheap
2006-09-05 01:08:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they just want more people to buy so that they can have lots of money.
2006-09-05 01:09:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are able to mass produce them and it drives costs way down per laptop way down....not all dell's are bad...
2006-09-05 01:06:59 · answer #6 · answered by speech1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uhh because DELL sucks! lol
2006-09-05 01:07:55 · answer #7 · answered by CaLiFoRnIa_PaGeAnT_GiRl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just remember you get what you pay for....
2006-09-05 01:05:26 · answer #8 · answered by ☠Naz☠ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wouldnt own a dell they are all junk and crash!!!!!
2006-09-05 01:08:42 · answer #9 · answered by woodsytattooman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you get what you pay for, buy a mac
2006-09-05 01:04:56 · answer #10 · answered by Southie9 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋