Best Buy to sell Dell Inspiron laptop, desktop and XPS products
Consumer beware, computer giant Dell and retail giant Best Buy are about to go through with a deal that will make select Inspiron laptops and desktops as well as XPS computers available at most Best Buy locations.
According to Business Wire, initial offerings are to include the XPS M1330 laptop in white color only, the Inspiron 1521 (AMD based) in blue and black and the Inspiron 1420 in black. Also to be available is Dell’s all-in-one “XPS One” desktop.
Inspiron Desktop models are to include the 530/531 models.
Michael Tatelman, vice president of sales and marketing for Dell said, “In the next few weeks, people looking to upgrade to a Dell notebook or desktop in the U.S. can visit their local Best Buy to check out and purchase our award-winning line of products.”
A vice president for Best Buy said that his company is proud to add Dell computers to its retail inventory. The Dell computers will be available online from Bestbuy.com or in most stores.
Specifications of the laptops will no doubt vary and may come in one or two configurations but it’s nothing like you will be able to do if you were to order directly from Dell. One could hope that the laptops will come with the higher resolution screens and discrete graphics but knowing Best Buy and how it likes to sell “the lowest common denominator” will probably sell models with standard displays and integrated graphics but we’ll have to just wait and see what develops.
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December 7th, 2007
“will probably sell models with standard displays and integrated graphics but we’ll have to just wait and see what develops.”
That’s all 95% of users need anyway. Would like to see a Ubuntu offering as well.
December 7th, 2007
Well, those aren’t good enough for me and it’s gotten to the point that the mundane offerings of stores just don’t suit my needs.
I doubt Best Buy would sell anything running Ubuntu be it a Dell or otherwise.
December 8th, 2007
Yeah, that would be as stupid and unsuccessful as Walmart selling a Linux machine. An obviously poor business decision.
December 8th, 2007
Yes, I knew that would come up. Best Buy is (probably) heavily influenced by Microsoft whereas Walmart is probably less so. I would not expect a preinstalled Linux PC to crop up at Best Buy, in fact, at my local Best Buy there isn’t even a section for Linux operating systems, do the math, it won’t happen.
December 8th, 2007
And yet Best Buy has an actual IT support structure that could presumably profit from it. Do you think Walmart has a Linux OS section?
As far as doing the math,which OS is actually growing and which is hated by people to the point of wanting it’s OS blown off and replaced with something else. If you think the buzz generated by Walmart’s selling out a low end Linux machine and the mostly positive reviews it garnered is being ignored by other retail operations, you know nothing about retail.The fact that Dell is moving into Best Buy, and are already selling Linux machines is intriguing. Those are some of the reasons it would seem likely that Best Buy would be looking at offering a Linux machine. Do you have any logical reasons they wouldn’t, besides not having expensive retail space dedicated to widely available and free software?
December 8th, 2007
I don’t even know *IF* Walmart has an OS section at all… they’d be the LAST PLACE ON EARTH I’d buy any technology from.
The Linux PC Walmart sells is… to put it mildly, not for me. Can it export large PhotoShop Files, can it author DVDs (quickly…), can it edit video files, can it get blistering frame rates in Crysis…
I realize it is simply a computer to access the internet and do mundane/average tasks but its not for me. It’s not for me because I need to do all those things I listed quickly and with good quality.
They might and they might not, I’d lean towards not but then again they do have retails space dedicated to Macs…
December 9th, 2007
I feel the same way about Best Buy. They are the last place I go for tech. Quickly and good quality are not terms I’d use for Vista.
December 4th, 2008
It looks like Dell is pushing all hardware and software warranty support for items purchased from BestBuy to GeekSquad – so you’re pretty much screwed if something breaks ‘under warranty’.