Re: UCOP-DELL Agreement for U.C. Berkeley

  Were the differences in prices with the same level of warranty? UC
standard configurations (the specials on the Premier welcome page) for
computers & notebooks include 3-year Gold Technical Support.

- Donna L Lee
  Information Technology
  Capital Projects - UC, Berkeley
  1936 University Avenue, 2nd Floor
  Berkeley, CA 94704-7027
  Phone: (510) 642-6337
  FAX: (510) 642-7271
  dlee_at_cp.berkeley.edu

micronet-list-bounces_at_lists.berkeley.edu wrote on 12/13/2007 02:14:56 PM:

>
> > To see products, create, and save equotes under this new contract visit
> > the UC Berkeley Campus Computing Dell Premier Page
> > *https://www.tsw.berkeley.edu/eStore/dell_dept.tpl*
>
> Kin,
>
> I was happy to see this so I took a quick look at this page
> and configured a Vostro 400 minitower. The total was $575.88.
>
> I then went to the Dell Small Business page. Guess what!
> An even better Vostro 400 minitower (better processor,
> larger disk drive) is $479.00!! In other words, by using
> the new UCOP-DELL Agreement to buy a Vostro 400, we're being
> penalized almost $100, which is about 20%!
>
> To be fair, I also took a look at the configuration for
> an Optiplex 755. In this case, the situation was just
> the opposite. The UC price was $807.73 and the
> small business price was $1052, for a difference of
> $245, which ironically is again about 20%.
>
> So, it appears that sometimes the UCOP-DELL agreement
> is bad for us and sometimes it's good for us. I was
> hoping the a new UCOP-DELL agreement would eliminate
> this uncertainty and leave us knowing that we're
> always getting the best possible deal from Dell
> but I guess it's not going to happen this time.
>
> By the way, disk pricing for the UC Optiplex 755
> is a little strange, e.g. a 160GB drive is included,
> or for $.30 less, you get a 250GB drive!
>
> Cordially,
> --
> Jon Forrest
> Unix Computing Support
> College of Chemistry
> 173 Tan Hall
> University of California Berkeley
> Berkeley, CA
> 94720-1460
> 510-643-1032
> jlforrest_at_berkeley.edu
>
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