When is the best time to buy a Dell?

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<p>So right now Dell is having a "Gifts For Grads" Sale. I was planning on waiting until the summer to buy a laptop for college, but should i just buy it now? Is Dell likely to have a 'back to school" sale later in the summer?</p>

<p>Also I am planning on buying the Dell XPS m1330. Does anyone have experience with this laptop? Would you recommend it?</p>

<p>Thanks for the help!</p>

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<p>Dell will most definitely have a back-to-school summer sale.</p>

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<p>where is this sale you speak of accepted…</p>

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<p>Possibly from the manufacturer themselves.</p>

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<p>Never. 10chr</p>

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<p>The best time to buy from Dell to get the best prices is in the last month of their financial quarter.</p>

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<p>English please ^</p>

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<p>Dell always has sales. Wait until about a month before school starts, and watch the sales.</p>

<p>Also, your school may offer a special on recommended configurations.</p>

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<p>April, July, October, January. Start looking in the second week of the month. The weaker the economy, the better the deals.</p>

<p>I have a Dell XPS M1330 as a backup for my 17 inch MacBook Pro. It’s nice for traveling. I find the screen a little small for serious work. If you get one of these, don’t order it with nVidia discrete graphics. They will put out a lot of heat and possibly require motherboard replacements. I’ve run into many with multiple motherboard replacements on this system with discrete graphics. I have the 2.0 Ghz Merom processor and find that startup and shutdown are slow. You can get faster processors but I think that the bottlenecks are Vista and the hard drive.</p>

<p>Keep an eye out for Dell Coupons. You can go into Google and type Dell Coupons XPS M1330 and it will return coupon websites.</p>

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<p>I don’t own the XPS M1330, but I highly doubt that Vista is the bottleneck. I ran XP Pro SP2 before switching to Vista Business, and startup and shutdown are significantly faster under Vista than under XP. Maybe it’s just a case of YMMV.</p>

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<p>I’ve read that Vista startup and shutdown time are much better with Business than with Home Premium - anecdotal. It doesn’t matter that much if you sleep it and then wake it instead of shutting it down and restarting it but I just prefer to shut it down and then restart it out of old habits.</p>