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I'm looking to buy a 4700 series machine in the near future, to
replace a Dell XP600. Am I better keeping my buying impulse on hold
until after Xmas, or just going for it now. Dell has what seems to be
a pretty good deal ( free flat panel display upgrade ) now. Also, I
read on another thread that Dell isn't shipping OEM O/S disks with new
systems, which concerns me. Can someone confirm if that is true?
Thanks in advance for any info.

Jeff

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figaro911@hotmail.com (Jeff Innis) wrote in
news:62eb5b56.0411131925.5dd50000@posting.google.com:

> I'm looking to buy a 4700 series machine in the near future, to
> replace a Dell XP600. Am I better keeping my buying impulse on hold
> until after Xmas, or just going for it now. Dell has what seems to be
> a pretty good deal ( free flat panel display upgrade ) now. Also, I
> read on another thread that Dell isn't shipping OEM O/S disks with new
> systems, which concerns me. Can someone confirm if that is true?
> Thanks in advance for any info.

Don't know about the US, but in Canada a friend has found
that the best prices of the year are the latter part of November.
The second best are late summer.

--
Dave Patton
Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
http://www.confluence.org/
My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

the best deal on the 4700 that i have ever scene is going on right now...
go to dell.com then small business then outrageous deals where they have a
dimension 4700 for $868 + free shipping + $? sales tax - $100 rebate for
3ghz/800mhz, 512mb, 80gb, dvd drive, cdrw drive, modem, floppy drive,
integrated video (and pci/express video card expansion slot), integrated
sound, integrated nic, windows xp home, e173fp 17" flat panel monitor,
speaker bar for e173fp, 2 year warranty.

like your expressed, my sense is that prices will not be aggressive until
some time after the holiday season is over. however, you never know, and
after the downgrading of their (and other computer retailers) stock based on
projected sales being weak they may surprise us with lots of aggressive
pricing this quarter.

as for your question about cds being supplied with the computer, the answer
to this question is not mysterious... when configuring a system on dell.com
look at the operating system choice and select one that says "with media" if
you want the cd (as opposed to "no media" ). eventually they will not be
able to offer the choice as microsoft is forcing oem retailers to phase out
the supply of cds.

"Jeff Innis" <figaro911@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:62eb5b56.0411131925.5dd50000@posting.google.com...
> I'm looking to buy a 4700 series machine in the near future, to
> replace a Dell XP600. Am I better keeping my buying impulse on hold
> until after Xmas, or just going for it now. Dell has what seems to be
> a pretty good deal ( free flat panel display upgrade ) now. Also, I
> read on another thread that Dell isn't shipping OEM O/S disks with new
> systems, which concerns me. Can someone confirm if that is true?
> Thanks in advance for any info.
>
> Jeff