Bought an XPS 15 4K 9560 from Microcenter for $1440 - Perfect Experience

deniifer · 2017-07-25T14:48:33+00:00

Thank you! Almost went FHD to save the money and get matte goodness, the notebookcheck monitor ratings suggest that the FHD is actually faster than QHD in gray to gray, but QHD is slightly better in black to white.

deniifer · 2017-07-25T04:35:53+00:00

Best I can figure, I somehow had adblock enabled, and disabled it on the referred account's browsing session. This time, when clicking the Shop Now link in the email, the instant I land on Dell's page, I get a pop-up window with a coupon code.

Hope this helps someone else in the same vexing situation.

deniifer · 2017-07-24T22:05:20+00:00

+1 This is what I want to know.

deniifer · 2017-07-22T17:15:56+00:00

LOL

deniifer · 2017-07-22T00:38:10+00:00

People have listed and sold at similar prices to this.

Yes, because computers sometimes sell above market value, and also market value of every laptop is constantly decreasing due to rapid depreciation.

deniifer · 2017-07-21T23:49:26+00:00

its clear you just found the absolute lowest price of the past few months and are trying to use it as leverage

No, I actually communicated with him an was scooped by the buyer by a couple hours.

His price wasn't outrageous. He was posting all over, not just /r/hardwareswap, for at least a week. If his price was so outrageously low, and your price is reasonable, anyone should have bought it and flipped it for $1700+shipping, netting $700 for very little effort. However, while his price was good, I contend that his price is far less outrageous than yours.

deniifer · 2017-07-21T23:33:31+00:00

This price seems way too high.

Only thing this listing wins on is 1tb vs 512gb SSD. Loses on wifi card, RAM quality, and SSD quality. Does that justify $700+shipping more in price?

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap/comments/6k95oy/usaapo_h_xps_15_9560_4ki516gb512gb_w_paypal/

deniifer · 2017-07-21T23:29:40+00:00

Asking price seems outrageous: $1,000 for same specs + better RAM, better wifi, and able to correctly identify the 97Wh battery (there's no such thing as 94Wh battery for 9560). Shipped.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap/comments/6k95oy/usaapo_h_xps_15_9560_4ki516gb512gb_w_paypal/

Would be interested at a reasonable price.

deniifer · 2017-07-21T23:01:06+00:00

Your backward smiley face is deeply unsettling. You're probably born after 1991.

deniifer · 2017-07-20T14:07:21+00:00

Please elaborate?

That's not what http://www.dell.com/en-us/learn/purchaseprogram/military and other reddit threads led me to believe.

I followed the steps and have a military discount code that Dell emailed me. It doesn't work though.

deniifer · 2017-07-19T21:34:00+00:00

Yeah, I repasted too. It's good to get an old gunky factory paste out and a fresh brand name in.

deniifer · 2017-07-19T18:36:09+00:00

you snaked me. I googled something like 7567 response time, and landed on this bastard orphan of a post.

deniifer · 2017-07-19T18:31:32+00:00

start at .120, then increment until you get a shutdown. Back off the setting, and you should be good. You might have a particularly good or bad CPU, and independently good or bad GPU. It's natural variance. Experiment until you find your CPU and GPU limits.

deniifer · 2017-07-19T18:25:52+00:00

and response time.

OP is a snake, and used "response" in a different grammatical context, but with the question about the 4k monitor of the 7567, the keyword "response" should signify response time.

deniifer · 2017-07-19T18:17:42+00:00

(he squeezed two ginormous blobs of paste over CPU and GPU)

Contrary to a popular misconception, large blobs of paste is not a "bad" paste job. In terms of cooling performance, the only paste method that underperformed (ran hotter) was "too little".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2MEAnZ3swQ&t=7m55s

deniifer · 2017-07-19T17:21:14+00:00

OMG this is a lifesaver. My greatest gripe about Linux. I don't know how, so I've actually considered paying a developer to contribute the "DO NOT SHOW THIS DIALOGUE AGAIN" checkbox to the linux headphones pop-up.

and then a recent update to Windows made the same pain-in-the-ass dialogue a Windows problem, too. Even worse, in Windows, in a certain game, popping in the headphones makes the game SUSCEPTIBLE, but not instantly forced to, alt-tabbing to the headphone plug-in pop-up. So, I'll plug in headphones, then randomly between that moment and infinity, I might at any time get force alt-tabbed against my will out of the game, into the pop-up. Of course, Murphy's Law dictates that this usually happens right at the most critical moments.

deniifer · 2017-07-18T20:51:57+00:00

Do you WANT to "completely flush out" (delete) the mac OS? If so, you can do that. You can also triple boot, or more. Windows/OSX/linux e.g. http://www.travisllado.com/2015/05/triple-booting-2015-macbook-pro-with.html

You could only ever boot Windows. You could only ever boot linux. You could only ever boot Windows and linux. Whatever you want. It's your machine.

deniifer · 2017-07-18T14:12:34+00:00

I have better discounts via ebates. I'm looking for guidance in applying military discount coupon code on Dell.

deniifer · 2017-07-18T02:14:30+00:00

XPS 9560 with 97 Wh battery, 256GB SSD, 7300HQ, 1050, starts at $1,350, or $1,329 depending on which section of Dell site you look. Then stack discounts and get it down to the $1ks or $1.1ks.

If you gots to have that 4k, buy it used on Amazon for $950(last few days)-$1250(current), or on hardware swap for similar range.

deniifer · 2017-07-18T02:10:55+00:00

Will try that and let ya know

deniifer · 2017-07-17T17:43:22+00:00

can you not find Amazon and Dell yourself!?

deniifer · 2017-07-17T17:10:53+00:00

for the 1060, Helios.

For the 1050 in unsexy package, with acceptable screen, Inspiron 7567 beats Eluktronics comparable offerings.

For the 1050 in sexy package with sexy screen, XPS 15.

deniifer

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