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Happy 2400 buyer
"Jim Kent" wrote in message ... On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:41:13 GMT, "Thomas G. Marshall" . com wrote: You know, why buy a 4600 if you can get a 2400 to do about the same thing for $200 less? Well, that's why they craftily kept the AGP port offa the 2400 motherboard. Perhaps, but the Intel built-in video is going to be adequate for a lot of users, so it might not be as successful a strategy as complicating the addition of more storage. Yeah, but that won't get the buyer dual-channel DDR. Stew |
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"Jim Kent" wrote in message
... On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:26:27 GMT, "Christopher Muto" wrote: the order gets canceled after three weeks of being 'in production', then they gladly re-enter it for me. is that what you have experienced? part number 0t962. Yup. Annoying, ain't it? Sounds like that is the plan. I'm starting to think this is deliberate, to discourage smartass end users from upgrading 2400s in an "unapproved" (and anti-competitive to the more expensive Dimensions) way. You know, why buy a 4600 if you can get a 2400 to do about the same thing for $200 less? At least they don't force you to buy a "kit" like they do with the missing floppy brackets. Maybe they could add the "Hard Drive Bracket" option to the system config screen? What are they getting for these brackets anyways? |
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I have a 2400 here in England, but when I tried to order a bracket for a
second hard drive I was told that it was not an option. Are you now saying that Dell market these as an add-on! -- Barry Turner "Jim Kent" wrote in message ... On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:37:49 -0500, "Tom Scales" wrote: Fully loaded, with added memory for $400? How can you beat it. Heh heh heh... I love those little 2400s. There's a lot of bang for the buck there, -especially- when you and twenty of your best friends and clients got in on the $200 2400 with free shipping and free CD burner last November. Equipped with enough memory, that PC is entirely adequate for the vast majority of users. Only gamers, graphic designers, and other compute/graphics-intensive users would find it inadequate. Plus, it's small, quiet, and consumes practically no power. Now... If they'd only deliver that box of extra drive brackets I ordered... |
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we are saying that they used to sell them in the usa but now sit on the
orders and then cancel them... at least for the last few months. have been told by some reps that they are no longer available, no substitute part number, but then others say they are in stock and take the order. very strange. "BRT" wrote in message ... I have a 2400 here in England, but when I tried to order a bracket for a second hard drive I was told that it was not an option. Are you now saying that Dell market these as an add-on! -- Barry Turner "Jim Kent" wrote in message ... On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:37:49 -0500, "Tom Scales" wrote: Fully loaded, with added memory for $400? How can you beat it. Heh heh heh... I love those little 2400s. There's a lot of bang for the buck there, -especially- when you and twenty of your best friends and clients got in on the $200 2400 with free shipping and free CD burner last November. Equipped with enough memory, that PC is entirely adequate for the vast majority of users. Only gamers, graphic designers, and other compute/graphics-intensive users would find it inadequate. Plus, it's small, quiet, and consumes practically no power. Now... If they'd only deliver that box of extra drive brackets I ordered... |
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nothing was changed. the offer was clearly stated. you were unable to
understand it. here is what it said... With ANY DimensionTM desktop! Expires 03/31/04 11 p.m. CT. Right now, receive a FREE hard drive upgrade1 when you purchase ANY DellTM Dimension desktop! Increase system storage and get more room for the important files and applications you need to help boost office productivity! 1 Offer valid on first bay only. The Dimension 2400, 4600, 4600C and 8300 hard drive upgrade is from 40GB 7200 RPM to 80GB 7200 RPM; the Dimension XPS from 80GB 7200RPM to 120GB 7200 RPM. FREE Upgrade to 80GB 7200 RPM Hard drive Dimension 2400, 4600, 4600C, 8300 desktops FREE Upgrade to 120GB 7200 RPM Hard drive Dimension XPS desktops Expires 03/31/04. "yzeew" wrote in message ... it should properly say "Pay $10 to upgrade from our crappy slow 40GB drive to a faster 40GB drive, and we'll toss in an extra 40GB of disk space" and not "free upgrade". there are two actions required and one of them costs $10. the offer as stated is misleading which is probably why they changed it. they were probably getting tons of calls asking why they were getting charged $10 for a "free upgrade". "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ... why is it so difficult for you to grasp that the promotion is for a free upgrade from a 40gb/7200 rpm drive to a 80gb/7200rpm drive? even you seem to acknowledge that you had previously been able to configure the system with a 40gb/5400rpm but today in most online configuration tools that option has been removed. yesterday or today if you had selected the 40gb/7200rpm drive as the base then the free upgrade to the 80gb/7200rpm is $0 more. yesterday or today, if you have selected the 80gb/7200rpm drive as the base then the free upgrade to the 80gb/7200rpm is -$30. i think that your problem is that you are stuck on the word 'free' when you should try to read what it says and expand your narrow view to what it actually says: "free upgrade" but you just seem hell bent on saying that dell and everyone else is wrong and seem believe that if you repeat a lie enough it can produce a truth. now go ahead and have the last word, we both know you can't resist making another reply. "weeeezy" wrote in message ... you're friggin' nuts. the point is the "free" upgrade isn't "free" if it costs somebody $10! don't use the word "free" if there is a charge. it is pure deception. you're just too dense to get it and too stupid to admit dell was decieving people or had screwed up the web site. The web site has now been corrected and the 5200rpm drive isn't even listed any more in the 4600 configuration options on the sb side. the $10 charge is gone as well. both you and dell were wrong. at least dell fixed it. you just keep spewing your verbal diareha because you obviously know everything. keep yabbering and prove yourself an even bigger fool. FREE UPGRADE! 80GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive Special Offer "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ... as posted to your thread about the free hard disk upgrade that you now belive has now been corrected 'corrected'... you are delusional. exactly the same as before... the concept that escapes you is that the $ amount associated with selecting any item is relative to the currently selected item. if you select a larger drive then the free upgrade becomes a negative number. if you select a drive below what qualifies for the free drive you see a positive number. if you select the drive that the free upgrade is based on you see zero. the configuration you were looking at was configured with a basic 40gb/5400rpm 'value' drive. you had an option to upgrade that choice to a 40gb/7200rpm drive for $10 more. and also you had an option to get a free upgrade from the 40gb/7200 drive to an 80gb/7200rpm drive. if you selected the 40gb/7200rpm as the base drive then the free upgrade would indeed say add $0. your failure to grasp this after two days of looking at it and not reading the simple detail of the promotion is evidence about the same defective thinking that goes into your political views. "weeezy" wrote in message ... so it is ok for dell to charge $10 for a "free" item? now that is defective thinking. but of course neither you nor dell is capable of error. interestingly dell has corrected their mistake. i doubt your man enough to do the same. "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ... "Thomas G. Marshall" . com wrote in message ... "HH" coughed up the following: I agree with Thomas. The OP listed the specific tasks he bought the PC for and noted it was perfect for those tasks. HH (sorry for prior post----ctrl-M problem ) Yeah, I'm not sure what weezy is so angry about. Is he always like that? the names changes, but the flawed logic is consistent. his/her absurd rant about the free hard disk promotion is a clear example about reaching conclusions before bothering to collect or understand the facts (and lets everyone understand the defective thinking that goes behind his/her political views). |
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Have you tried ordering the bracket along with a disk drive? Wonder if that
is the missing link? "news.verizon.net" wrote in message ... we are saying that they used to sell them in the usa but now sit on the orders and then cancel them... at least for the last few months. have been told by some reps that they are no longer available, no substitute part number, but then others say they are in stock and take the order. very strange. "BRT" wrote in message ... I have a 2400 here in England, but when I tried to order a bracket for a second hard drive I was told that it was not an option. Are you now saying that Dell market these as an add-on! -- Barry Turner "Jim Kent" wrote in message ... On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:37:49 -0500, "Tom Scales" wrote: Fully loaded, with added memory for $400? How can you beat it. Heh heh heh... I love those little 2400s. There's a lot of bang for the buck there, -especially- when you and twenty of your best friends and clients got in on the $200 2400 with free shipping and free CD burner last November. Equipped with enough memory, that PC is entirely adequate for the vast majority of users. Only gamers, graphic designers, and other compute/graphics-intensive users would find it inadequate. Plus, it's small, quiet, and consumes practically no power. Now... If they'd only deliver that box of extra drive brackets I ordered... |
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At this point I'd just say "give up" for now: Duct tape the drive someplace on the inside of the chassis so that air will travel on both sides of it. If you can't find a good spot, then place something between the HD and the chassis and then duct tape the lot. Close up the system case, forget you did that, and get on with your life john coughed up the following: Have you tried ordering the bracket along with a disk drive? Wonder if that is the missing link? "news.verizon.net" wrote in message ... we are saying that they used to sell them in the usa but now sit on the orders and then cancel them... at least for the last few months. have been told by some reps that they are no longer available, no substitute part number, but then others say they are in stock and take the order. very strange. "BRT" wrote in message ... I have a 2400 here in England, but when I tried to order a bracket for a second hard drive I was told that it was not an option. Are you now saying that Dell market these as an add-on! -- Barry Turner "Jim Kent" wrote in message ... On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:37:49 -0500, "Tom Scales" wrote: Fully loaded, with added memory for $400? How can you beat it. Heh heh heh... I love those little 2400s. There's a lot of bang for the buck there, -especially- when you and twenty of your best friends and clients got in on the $200 2400 with free shipping and free CD burner last November. Equipped with enough memory, that PC is entirely adequate for the vast majority of users. Only gamers, graphic designers, and other compute/graphics-intensive users would find it inadequate. Plus, it's small, quiet, and consumes practically no power. Now... If they'd only deliver that box of extra drive brackets I ordered... |
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Didn't Abbot and Costello do this routine once? Christopher Muto coughed up the following: nothing was changed. the offer was clearly stated. you were unable to understand it. here is what it said... With ANY DimensionTM desktop! Expires 03/31/04 11 p.m. CT. Right now, receive a FREE hard drive upgrade1 when you purchase ANY DellTM Dimension desktop! Increase system storage and get more room for the important files and applications you need to help boost office productivity! 1 Offer valid on first bay only. The Dimension 2400, 4600, 4600C and 8300 hard drive upgrade is from 40GB 7200 RPM to 80GB 7200 RPM; the Dimension XPS from 80GB 7200RPM to 120GB 7200 RPM. FREE Upgrade to 80GB 7200 RPM Hard drive Dimension 2400, 4600, 4600C, 8300 desktops FREE Upgrade to 120GB 7200 RPM Hard drive Dimension XPS desktops Expires 03/31/04. "yzeew" wrote in message ... it should properly say "Pay $10 to upgrade from our crappy slow 40GB drive to a faster 40GB drive, and we'll toss in an extra 40GB of disk space" and not "free upgrade". there are two actions required and one of them costs $10. the offer as stated is misleading which is probably why they changed it. they were probably getting tons of calls asking why they were getting charged $10 for a "free upgrade". "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ... why is it so difficult for you to grasp that the promotion is for a free upgrade from a 40gb/7200 rpm drive to a 80gb/7200rpm drive? even you seem to acknowledge that you had previously been able to configure the system with a 40gb/5400rpm but today in most online configuration tools that option has been removed. yesterday or today if you had selected the 40gb/7200rpm drive as the base then the free upgrade to the 80gb/7200rpm is $0 more. yesterday or today, if you have selected the 80gb/7200rpm drive as the base then the free upgrade to the 80gb/7200rpm is -$30. i think that your problem is that you are stuck on the word 'free' when you should try to read what it says and expand your narrow view to what it actually says: "free upgrade" but you just seem hell bent on saying that dell and everyone else is wrong and seem believe that if you repeat a lie enough it can produce a truth. now go ahead and have the last word, we both know you can't resist making another reply. "weeeezy" wrote in message ... you're friggin' nuts. the point is the "free" upgrade isn't "free" if it costs somebody $10! don't use the word "free" if there is a charge. it is pure deception. you're just too dense to get it and too stupid to admit dell was decieving people or had screwed up the web site. The web site has now been corrected and the 5200rpm drive isn't even listed any more in the 4600 configuration options on the sb side. the $10 charge is gone as well. both you and dell were wrong. at least dell fixed it. you just keep spewing your verbal diareha because you obviously know everything. keep yabbering and prove yourself an even bigger fool. FREE UPGRADE! 80GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive Special Offer "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ... as posted to your thread about the free hard disk upgrade that you now belive has now been corrected 'corrected'... you are delusional. exactly the same as before... the concept that escapes you is that the $ amount associated with selecting any item is relative to the currently selected item. if you select a larger drive then the free upgrade becomes a negative number. if you select a drive below what qualifies for the free drive you see a positive number. if you select the drive that the free upgrade is based on you see zero. the configuration you were looking at was configured with a basic 40gb/5400rpm 'value' drive. you had an option to upgrade that choice to a 40gb/7200rpm drive for $10 more. and also you had an option to get a free upgrade from the 40gb/7200 drive to an 80gb/7200rpm drive. if you selected the 40gb/7200rpm as the base drive then the free upgrade would indeed say add $0. your failure to grasp this after two days of looking at it and not reading the simple detail of the promotion is evidence about the same defective thinking that goes into your political views. "weeezy" wrote in message ... so it is ok for dell to charge $10 for a "free" item? now that is defective thinking. but of course neither you nor dell is capable of error. interestingly dell has corrected their mistake. i doubt your man enough to do the same. "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ... "Thomas G. Marshall" . com wrote in message ... "HH" coughed up the following: I agree with Thomas. The OP listed the specific tasks he bought the PC for and noted it was perfect for those tasks. HH (sorry for prior post----ctrl-M problem ) Yeah, I'm not sure what weezy is so angry about. Is he always like that? the names changes, but the flawed logic is consistent. his/her absurd rant about the free hard disk promotion is a clear example about reaching conclusions before bothering to collect or understand the facts (and lets everyone understand the defective thinking that goes behind his/her political views). |
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yes, and it wasn't funny when they did it either, but raymond babbitt ("rain
man") enjoyed it. "Thomas G. Marshall" . com wrote in message ... Didn't Abbot and Costello do this routine once? Christopher Muto coughed up the following: nothing was changed. the offer was clearly stated. you were unable to understand it. here is what it said... With ANY DimensionTM desktop! Expires 03/31/04 11 p.m. CT. Right now, receive a FREE hard drive upgrade1 when you purchase ANY DellTM Dimension desktop! Increase system storage and get more room for the important files and applications you need to help boost office productivity! 1 Offer valid on first bay only. The Dimension 2400, 4600, 4600C and 8300 hard drive upgrade is from 40GB 7200 RPM to 80GB 7200 RPM; the Dimension XPS from 80GB 7200RPM to 120GB 7200 RPM. FREE Upgrade to 80GB 7200 RPM Hard drive Dimension 2400, 4600, 4600C, 8300 desktops FREE Upgrade to 120GB 7200 RPM Hard drive Dimension XPS desktops Expires 03/31/04. "yzeew" wrote in message ... it should properly say "Pay $10 to upgrade from our crappy slow 40GB drive to a faster 40GB drive, and we'll toss in an extra 40GB of disk space" and not "free upgrade". there are two actions required and one of them costs $10. the offer as stated is misleading which is probably why they changed it. they were probably getting tons of calls asking why they were getting charged $10 for a "free upgrade". "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ... why is it so difficult for you to grasp that the promotion is for a free upgrade from a 40gb/7200 rpm drive to a 80gb/7200rpm drive? even you seem to acknowledge that you had previously been able to configure the system with a 40gb/5400rpm but today in most online configuration tools that option has been removed. yesterday or today if you had selected the 40gb/7200rpm drive as the base then the free upgrade to the 80gb/7200rpm is $0 more. yesterday or today, if you have selected the 80gb/7200rpm drive as the base then the free upgrade to the 80gb/7200rpm is -$30. i think that your problem is that you are stuck on the word 'free' when you should try to read what it says and expand your narrow view to what it actually says: "free upgrade" but you just seem hell bent on saying that dell and everyone else is wrong and seem believe that if you repeat a lie enough it can produce a truth. now go ahead and have the last word, we both know you can't resist making another reply. "weeeezy" wrote in message ... you're friggin' nuts. the point is the "free" upgrade isn't "free" if it costs somebody $10! don't use the word "free" if there is a charge. it is pure deception. you're just too dense to get it and too stupid to admit dell was decieving people or had screwed up the web site. The web site has now been corrected and the 5200rpm drive isn't even listed any more in the 4600 configuration options on the sb side. the $10 charge is gone as well. both you and dell were wrong. at least dell fixed it. you just keep spewing your verbal diareha because you obviously know everything. keep yabbering and prove yourself an even bigger fool. FREE UPGRADE! 80GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive Special Offer "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ... as posted to your thread about the free hard disk upgrade that you now belive has now been corrected 'corrected'... you are delusional. exactly the same as before... the concept that escapes you is that the $ amount associated with selecting any item is relative to the currently selected item. if you select a larger drive then the free upgrade becomes a negative number. if you select a drive below what qualifies for the free drive you see a positive number. if you select the drive that the free upgrade is based on you see zero. the configuration you were looking at was configured with a basic 40gb/5400rpm 'value' drive. you had an option to upgrade that choice to a 40gb/7200rpm drive for $10 more. and also you had an option to get a free upgrade from the 40gb/7200 drive to an 80gb/7200rpm drive. if you selected the 40gb/7200rpm as the base drive then the free upgrade would indeed say add $0. your failure to grasp this after two days of looking at it and not reading the simple detail of the promotion is evidence about the same defective thinking that goes into your political views. "weeezy" wrote in message ... so it is ok for dell to charge $10 for a "free" item? now that is defective thinking. but of course neither you nor dell is capable of error. interestingly dell has corrected their mistake. i doubt your man enough to do the same. "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ... "Thomas G. Marshall" . com wrote in message ... "HH" coughed up the following: I agree with Thomas. The OP listed the specific tasks he bought the PC for and noted it was perfect for those tasks. HH (sorry for prior post----ctrl-M problem ) Yeah, I'm not sure what weezy is so angry about. Is he always like that? the names changes, but the flawed logic is consistent. his/her absurd rant about the free hard disk promotion is a clear example about reaching conclusions before bothering to collect or understand the facts (and lets everyone understand the defective thinking that goes behind his/her political views). |
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You mean like the guy in the Dell commercial duct taping everything
together? Without Dell supplying the brackets I guess they leave little choice than to watch their commercial and pick up a few installation tips! ;-) "Thomas G. Marshall" . com wrote in message ... At this point I'd just say "give up" for now: Duct tape the drive someplace on the inside of the chassis so that air will travel on both sides of it. If you can't find a good spot, then place something between the HD and the chassis and then duct tape the lot. Close up the system case, forget you did that, and get on with your life john coughed up the following: Have you tried ordering the bracket along with a disk drive? Wonder if that is the missing link? "news.verizon.net" wrote in message ... we are saying that they used to sell them in the usa but now sit on the orders and then cancel them... at least for the last few months. have been told by some reps that they are no longer available, no substitute part number, but then others say they are in stock and take the order. very strange. "BRT" wrote in message ... I have a 2400 here in England, but when I tried to order a bracket for a second hard drive I was told that it was not an option. Are you now saying that Dell market these as an add-on! -- Barry Turner "Jim Kent" wrote in message ... On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:37:49 -0500, "Tom Scales" wrote: Fully loaded, with added memory for $400? How can you beat it. Heh heh heh... I love those little 2400s. There's a lot of bang for the buck there, -especially- when you and twenty of your best friends and clients got in on the $200 2400 with free shipping and free CD burner last November. Equipped with enough memory, that PC is entirely adequate for the vast majority of users. Only gamers, graphic designers, and other compute/graphics-intensive users would find it inadequate. Plus, it's small, quiet, and consumes practically no power. Now... If they'd only deliver that box of extra drive brackets I ordered... |
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