Originally posted by: NeoHyd
A bit of reality and to prove that it was not a PRICE MISTAKE. I Challenge to prove this a price mistake...
IT?S A CHALLENGE!!!!
I have taken into consideration only the prices which are different between the current system available now
Here and the system which was available on 10/09/03
Ordered System
Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.40GHz w/800MHz front side bus
256MB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHz (2x128M)
Dell 2-button scroll mouse
Productivity Pack including WordPerfect and Money
40GB Value Hard Drive
48x CD-ROM Drive
No Monitor
New 128MB DDR GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI
No Modem Requested
Total Price 654.00 ? 400.00 (Discount) = 254.00 ? 100.00 (Mail-in-Rebate)
To make the system comparable as current system available on line
+ 50.00 - Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.60GHz w/800MHz front side bus/ HT Technology
+100.00 - 512MB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHz (2x256M)
+ 30.00 - Dell Optical USB Mouse
+ 30.00 - Microsoft Worksuite® including Money
+ 70.00 - 80GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
+200.00 - 4x DVD+R+RW Drive CD-RW including Sonic RecordNow and MyDVD LE
+160.00 - 17in (16.0 viewable,.25dp)M782 CRT Monitor
- 15.00 - 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI
+ 30.00 - 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
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640.00 - Price Diffrence
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254.00 - Price of Ordered System
640.00 ? Difference between current and ordered system
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894.00 ? Current Price [1254.00 ? 400.00 (Discount)] Look here for the current price
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