man is this cheap

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i think dell has a trick going on. if they want to pump the quarter results they run a promo like this. they sell a bunch of computers but give out $200 rebates that wont be cashed in until next quarter. they get revenue this quarter and transfer expenses to next quarter. they may even have a way to hide the rebates so they dont hurt the bottom line.
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Overall that shouldn't be meaningfull, as sometime during the year they'd need to account for the rebates. However, I believe all these rebates are about painting the "top line"... "Sales" $1000 and "Promotions" $-200, looks better to those looking for "growth in the business" than Sales $800 [net]. "Top Line Revenue Growth/Stability" is highly prized... even when it's phony accounting tricks.
 
"Prescott, likely to launch at a 3.4-GHz clock speed, will double the P4's Level 2 cache and improve the hyperthreading technology. And, Prescott machines should more fully take advantage of the higher-bandwidth memory and 800-MHz bus that the 875P chip set enables, Krewell says."

if you are a true power user and can wait another month to buy, that is what you really want. When comparing two similar systems, bigger cache is where its at.
 
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Overall that shouldn't be meaningfull, as sometime during the year they'd need to account for the rebates. However, I believe all these rebates are about painting the "top line"... "Sales" $1000 and "Promotions" $-200, looks better to those looking for "growth in the business" than Sales $800 [net]. "Top Line Revenue Growth/Stability" is highly prized... even when it's phony accounting tricks.
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exactly. good for us though. for 99.9% of traders what they are selling now is way more power than you'll ever need, at least for trading purposes.
 
Sure enough.

Those incredible $800.00 deals on the Dimension 8300 in the last week of April were undboutedly because of the end of the quarter for Dell.

I guess I am going to have to wait till the end of July for a new one!
 
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dell Computer Corp.(Nasdaq:DELL - news) is likely to show at least 35 percent sales growth as well as a jump in earnings when it reports on its quarter Thursday, as it sold more personal computers than any competitor and broke into the printer market.




Quote from waggie945:

Sure enough.

Those incredible $800.00 deals on the Dimension 8300 in the last week of April were undboutedly because of the end of the quarter for Dell.

I guess I am going to have to wait till the end of July for a new one!
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Quote from trader42:

can anybody comment on the fan noise level(s) for these higher end Dells?
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What noise? There is no noise that I can hear running the puter with a 2.0 GHz Celeron.
 
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