Dell laptops are getting pricy ! :)

[jpb]

Was just browsing the dell uk website and found that the base price for the 5530 is apparently over 13 million pounds!

Screen shot attached.

[JackJones]

Marked down from £20M, a bargain!

[MrMobodies]

Engineered to excel. Designed to impress.

Ventilation looks good with two heatpipes and fans on both ends.

Intel HD Graphics, for that price?
I am NOT impressed

Looking at the cost of the processors and memory and SSD's that cost a tiny tiny fraction I thought £13m was a mistake but no.

[DimitriP]

Adding it to the basket takes 35% off ( - £3,500,753.08 )
Now that's a deal !

[schmitt trigger]

Does it qualify for free shipping?

 

[rdl]

Discount of 81.79 for going with Linux? That actually seems like a lot.

[MrMobodies]

Sounds like you are paying for the design which seems dis-proportional to the hardware.
I think it is more of a mistake and the on site charges are set automatically.

2 Year basic onsite service £0

5Yr ProSupport Plus and Next Business Day On-Site Service
- £6,499,299.03[

Just as much as the design.

I wouldn't want my laptop thin so it can be bent easily.
Looking at the illustration I see one board.
What value will that depreciate to after 5 years?

On the other hand doing a simple search shows sites selling less than £2016.89

There is a news site that confirmed it but they put it in dollars instead of pounds.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/07/dell_13m_precision_5530/

I wonder what they are playing at.

Sorry forgot and just attached image.

[GreyWoolfe]

That is apparently special pricing for the old Dart as Dave would say.  Only a 100 fold increase over pricing for us 'muricans.

[TERRA Operative]

Intel graphics on a Precision?!?

No option for Quadro? I wouldn't have bothered purchasing my last two if there wasn't the option for a discreet GPU....

[MrMobodies]

Intel graphics on a Precision?!?

No option for Quadro? I wouldn't have bothered purchasing my last two if there wasn't the option for a discreet GPU....

Precision 5530 "With enhanced graphics".
Intel HD graphics found in everything else.
Now That is Snakeoil.

I would also like a pointing stick and some dedicated buttons than a slidy touchpad.
It certainly doesn't impress me.

[vtwin@cox.net]

...and I thought my $11,000 Precision 7720 laptop was expensive.

[TERRA Operative]

I'm currently rocking a 4k screen, Xeon CPU Precision 7520, managed to get a US model shipped to my sister in law in Manhattan who then brought it over when she visited.

It was double the price here in Japan!

[TheNewLab]

Ha! Ha!
That looks like a manufacturer or authorized distributor ad

I have seen items repeatedly listed 10, 100, 1000 times over price..Chinese sellers sometimes do not know where to but the decimal mark US, or mix up decimal and comma.

I learned that business sellers use high price as a place marker when out of stock, (avoid having to re-enter everything?)

[Wan Huang Luo]

There have been times that I went to computer makers' websites and customized the crap out of a machine to see how expensive I can get it. I think my record was about $64,000 for a Mac Pro a number of years ago 

[SiliconWizard]

Or maybe that's when you buy from Venezuela...  

[Wan Huang Luo]

I learned that business sellers use high price as a place marker when out of stock, (avoid having to re-enter everything?)

Yeah, they learned quickly that pricing things at 0.00 or something low like that ends up getting 100,000 orders within the hour; that results in a lot of angry customers when the orders are inevitably canceled.