Dell and Barebones Systems with Standard Components
Like the Dell XPS 700’s design but hate its innards (and concomitant price level)? Well, now you can actually purchase a barebones system from Dell, and customize it as you wish without having to worry about voiding the original warranty like on full-featured Dell systems (not that a barebones system would have any sort of relevant warranty anyway).
For example, the Dell XPS 700 DIY kit starts at only US$1,120, which includes the cool chassis, power supply, an Intel motherboard, 512MB of RAM, and an Intel 930 processor.
But at the time of writing of this post, the URL for Dell’s new DIY section of their Dell.com store has yet to be disclosed.
[News via ExtremeTech]
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House of Dell » Dell Moving Away From Budget PCs said,
Pingback • July 14, 2006 @ 1:25 am
[…] And in “begun”, like any other corporation, this means a new advertising campaign. So far, it has focused on how Dell can produced customised PCs built exactly for your specific needs, whether it is gaming or video editing. In fact, you could also point to its Do-It-Yourself barebones PC initiative as another example of full customer customisation. […]