Harold Ancell wrote:
I checked Dell.com, and their "we want you to buy this higher end home
machine" offer has a 320GB stock drive, but highlights a 500GB just
below it with a bolded "Dell recommended for photos, music, and
games!", for an extra 120 US$, about 10% of the machine's price.
I'll bet a lot of people take them up on that.
Interestingly, I was online recently comparing Dell, Frys.com, and Apple
Store prices (for a research project). For a sampling of products exactly
the same, Dell generally had the worst prices, Frys the best, and Apple
more often matched Frys than Dell. Specifically, for a 500 GByte disk,
Dell was asking $189 versus $129 at Frys. I couldn't directly compare
Apple's price because they don't sell raw disks, they sell "modules" which
cost 2x the price of an external drive listed right next to the modules --
go figure.
As the old saying goes, it pays to shop around.
-- richard
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