Dell Inspiron 15R SE Laptop: Core i7 3632QM 2.2GHz, 15.6" 1080p LED, 8GB DDR3, 750GB HDD, AMD Radeon HD 7730M, 6-cell, HDMI, USB 3.0, Win 8 $700 + Free Shipping (expired)

tax... are there other companies that won't charge Ca sales tax? kinda hurting this one for me at ~$70.

tax... are there other companies that won't charge Ca sales tax? kinda hurting this one for me at ~$70.

You have no option if you're purchasing a Dell from Dell or an authorized Dell reseller. Sorry.

Though I don't feel this laptop is that great, I did purchase one on a friend's behalf just a few minutes ago. Price was $724 after tax, and they are sending me a $35 gift card, bringing the total purchase to $669 shipped.

was that a refurb? this is new.. and if new, pls share the link, thanks

Check out this link. Compare the specs and the prices. Increased performance worth the extra few bucks?

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrar...D9B20ED2FB

Mine handles youtube videos and most websites just fine. One of the primary uses of this PC for me is using ssh to connect to my university's cloud computing center where I have access to some powerful machines... don't need much juice on this end for that.

However, I also regularly have up ~20 chrome tabs, excel, word, pdf reader, notepad++, and terminal software open all at once with little to no slowdowns.

The core 2 duos were awesome cpus for their time. For example, based on synthetics, my cpu (T5600) has similar computing power to the lower end AMD APUs (A4/A6) that just came out last year. I'm not saying it's a multimedia powerhouse, but it still gets the job done for me.

$35 gift card??? How?

I am a Dell premier partner.

Free 2 day shipping, free support upgrade to premier, $15 discount, $35 gift card.

Estimated delivery date 3/12.

I'm going to return the 750GB drive to Dell and get another $150 back.

Basically for $840 - You get 1 TB HD, 16GB SSD, 2 GB GForce 650M and way better styling. Is $150 more worth way better performance?

I am a Dell premier partner.

Free 2 day shipping, free support upgrade to premier, $15 discount, $35 gift card.

Estimated delivery date 3/12.

I'm going to return the 750GB drive to Dell and get another $150 back.

Basically for $840 - You get 1 TB HD, 16GB SSD, 2 GB GForce 650M and way better styling. Is $150 more worth way better performance?

Experiences certainly vary person to person. I have had both good and poor experiences with them. I assure you however, as a whole the products and services provided by Dell are frequently below par.

I highly doubt the authenticity of this statement. Were you in a position that requires you to input a great deal of data, you won't be using the 10key on a laptop regularly -- and especially not a 15 inch. My brother owns an accounting firm. He and a couple of his employees all use a USB 10key HID, even in lieu of the full-sized keyboard. It's like buying a mechanical keyboard for gaming. When you are inputting at a rapid pace, the device makes all the difference in the world. I also don't buy the whole idea that your "statitician friends" would be opposed to using an external 10key HID. They weigh practically nothing, and if you're really doing that much work at home, Spending $10 to have one on both desks when you need it is nothing. More likely, you are a student and the "statisticians" you're referring to are fellow students that may be taking a class in statistics, in which case having the 10key on the laptop is more for convenience, yet palpable as they don't really do much in the way of data entry.

Actually, they both work for the Census Bureau, and they both prefer to have the 10-key on their laptop for convenience. They do happen to do the majority of their work on computers at their office, but they also do work on their laptop both at the office and their homes. Also, my response was not specifically about the 10-key on a 15-inch laptop, but one does have a 15-inch, and the other has a 17-inch.

But feel free to doubt whatever you want, and make whatever presumptions you want. I'm offering my experiences to help inform others; you apparently are just trying to be an idiot.

Can non-premiere peons return the drive too?



If you're gaming or doing graphics work/modeling, probably. If not, maybe not. So that has both a SSD and a stndard hard drive?