Wow! laptops are really getting expensive.

Unfortunately the listing is down. Gates' personal item, perhaps? Gold-plated?

I notice that they are marketing a lot of super-powered "gaming" laptops now, at very hefty prices. Totally unneeded by 98% of users; but I imagine they might be a status symbol.
 
This happend to a friend of mine who sold a laptop on ebay. In his case, it was people who just drove the price up then want to do some shady deal to get the laptop.

If you noticed, the winner had only one other purchase, almost a sure sign of problems in a case like this.

Billyp
 
According to the Dell rep at work, 60% of all money spent on PCs, is spent on gaming machines - a market that Dell have never been big in. So there are looking to invest big time in this market and hence the change in the way they will be selling machines from now on, they will be using retail sales channels in addition to their direct sale approach.

I wonder if I can get my boss to buy me a $10,000 games machine to test out our banking applications???? I'd even take it home and work on the weekends then ;-)
 
That obviously was a special laptop. The cost for laptops is there in general because the design criteria is very different [lots of stuff packed in a small space ! ] They are also far more capapble than ever. The difference between basic model and one with everything on it is a factor of 2x in price. That includes things like a TV monitor and lots of speed and memory for things like games.
 
You can buy a laptop for $400 today, computers are getting extremely cheap because they want everyone to have no excuse not to own one. Sure there are extremes, but they go both ways.
 
My present rig, which is getting a little long in the tooth at about 5 years old, cost me about 1500.00. Came with a 1.9 processor, an 80 gig HD, and a low-end graphics card.

I'm just about to click the "order" button on a new box which will give me a 3-gig+ Athlon, a 320 Gig HD, a gig of RAM, and an upper-middle GeForce.....700.00. (Just the box, no peripherals...But I've got those :D )
 
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