[geeks] Cheap Octocore

[Francois Dion]

On 10/23/07, Mark <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2007, at 19:32, Francois Dion wrote:
>
> > On 10/23/07, Mark <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 23 Oct 2007, at 01:05, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> >>
> >>> "Dell Small Business offers the Dell PowerEdge SC1430
> >>> 8-Core Xeon 1.6GHz Server for $729. With $19 for
> >>> shipping, that matches our last mention as the lowest
> >>> price we've seen for this eight-core system by $270."
> >>
> >> Funny, I went through the configurator and couldn't get it any lower
> >> than $1427 with 8-core and 1GB RAM, 80GB hard drive and jack-all
> >> else. Another one of Dell's 'the price looks so good how could you
> >> not, even thought it's actually double that' offers?
> >
> > Actually, select the base unit which comes with 1 xeon 5110, then
> > select the 5310 on cpu 1 and 5310 on cpu 2. You probably selected the
> > 5330 cpus?
>
> And thus we encounter Dell gripe number 2 - STUPIDLY complicated
> pricing!

It is even more convoluted than meets the eye. They run promotions,
but also if you are a company with a "premium" account, once you are
hooked, then they start offering machines  at higher prices than joe
public would pay until you complain.

Francois