Dell Latitudes ever have Sales?

[BlackBeardThe3rd]

Latitudes ever have sales like the Insperons (e.g. $750 off)

 

[fbrdphreak]

Rare to never. Instead they do %off usually.

 

[yezhou]

There's a $600 off $1799 Latitudes deal going on now...there's a thread for it over in the Hot Deals section.

 

[EKKC]

mostly its corporations who buy them, they are better performing that inspiron (though many parts are shared between the two lines)

its like asking would IBM ever have sale in their ThinkPad line. not really because enough huge companies buy them so they don't make a huge discount off of them
(600 of 1799, whatever you're getting, its obviously marked up already)

 

[Fox5]

The Latitude just had a $500 deal off I think any Latitude over $1500, it ended though.

BTW, EKKC, the Latitudes are generally slower than the top end inspirons, but studier and lighter.

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: Fox5
BTW, EKKC, the Latitudes are generally slower than the top end inspirons, but studier and lighter.

I greatly dissagree with the sturdier and lighter statement. I had an inspiron 1100 that was thrown from a moving car...skidded along the road for 100ft...hit the curb...and STILL worked. I also had a latitude c840 that was in a laptop bag, took it on a plane, put it in the overhead, when taking it out bumped it against a seat...the thing never worked properly again.
I don't consider latitudes to be anything more than overpriced markups of their inspiron counterparts.

but in relating to this thread...yeah their are sales, just signup for the small business catalog and you'll get codes for them from time to time

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: Drakkon

Originally posted by: Fox5
BTW, EKKC, the Latitudes are generally slower than the top end inspirons, but studier and lighter.

I greatly dissagree with the sturdier and lighter statement. I had an inspiron 1100 that was thrown from a moving car...skidded along the road for 100ft...hit the curb...and STILL worked. I also had a latitude c840 that was in a laptop bag, took it on a plane, put it in the overhead, when taking it out bumped it against a seat...the thing never worked properly again.
I don't consider latitudes to be anything more than overpriced markups of their inspiron counterparts.

but in relating to this thread...yeah their are sales, just signup for the small business catalog and you'll get codes for them from time to time

Well then they're lighter, and they're sold as being sturdier.

 

[trikster2]

> but in relating to this thread...yeah their are sales, just signup for the small business catalog and you'll get codes for them from time to time

Like Drakkon said, sign up for the small business catalog, BUT also get on the small business mailing list. It's rare but they'll have 25% off one-time use coupons once in a blue moon.

ALSO if you are a student or work at a participating company go to the EPP site and sign up for their newsletter.

Keep an eye on this sites hot deal forum and the other hot deal sites like t bargains chubby wallet and for dell, esp g!o!t!a!p!e!x

Some of the information related above deals with older products and is largely irrelevant. Like any company dell goes through good and bad series. In the past dell did claim that the lattitude series used older more stable hardware for business but with the latest sonoma refresh the inspirons and lattitude seem to be pretty much on the same footing. The C800/600 series had some problems but I used both for a couple of years and they were OK. The latest D810, D610, M70 are all really decent laptops but you get what you pay for. They are no slower than the same-size inspirons, and in some cases faster. For example in the 15.4" format the inspiron 6000 only comes with the ATI x300 while the lattitude D810 can be had with the x600.

There is no lattitude counterpart for the humongoid 17" laptops so in that respect, the top (in weight) inspiron ARE faster than the lattitude.

While the lattitudes do not give you a speed edge and may/maynot be sturdier they do have have very nice docking station options, something absent from the Inspiron line. If you want to do dual external monitors in a 14 or 15" laptop with the inspirons you are dead in the water, but the lattitude docking station give you dual monitor and in the case of the bigger docking station even a PCI port for expansion.....

With several of the lattitudes you get a smartcard reader and gigabit ethernet. Nice features but useless for many home users.

Finally lattitude in theory will give you better/US based support. I say in theory because with the D800 I used for the last 2 years, the C800/600 I used before that and now my M70, I have yet to have a reason to call dell support.

 

[Fox5]

I think you may have to pay extra for the better support with the Latitude, but at least it's an option.(I think there's an upgrade to US based support in the Latitude configuration options)

 

[arcas]

Another benefit of the Latitude line is that they appear to use a trackpoint-type pointing device. Useful for people who can't stand to use the touchpads on most laptops. I wish more laptop companies would offer trackpoint devices.

 

[Fox5]

HP does, at least on their business line anyhow.

And they're standard on all IBMs.

 

[imported_Kensai]

There's one right now.