Here’s a great deal if you’ve been waiting to get an XPS 13 Ultrabook for cheap. Via Dell Outlet you can use a 20% off coupon code XR0056K7WXQ1TJ to knock the price of the XPS 13 down from an already discounted outlet price and then use the American Express / Twitter Sync offer that gets you $100 off the purchase of any item at Dell.com when you spend over $599. That means this XPS 13 I have in my cart (screenshot below) that’s $631 after coupon would be $531 after getting the American Express $100 off offer! Of course, you do have to have an Amex credit card and Twitter account to do this, but if you do the steps are easy and well worth the $100.
Basically what happens with this Amex Twitter deal is that you will be credited $100 after the purchase is made on Dell.com. If you don’t want to use Twitter or you don’t have an American Express card, the prices are still very good with the 20% off coupon.
The XPS 13 Ultrabook is a competitor to the MacBook Air that has a weight of only 2.99 pounds and is an amazing 0.71” thick at its thickest point. The XPS 13 is powered by a low voltage Intel Core i5 processor which is plenty capable of performing all the typical tasks you use a laptop for: streaming HD video, browsing the web, running office applications or Photoshop. It’s a gorgeously designed Ultrabook with an all aluminum body and sturdy design. It’s regularly priced between $999 and $1,499 new at Dell.com so the price of under $600 is amazing. Check out our full review of the XPS 13 to see more about this Ultrabook.
Link to Deal: Dell XPS 13 at Dell Outlet with 20% off + $100 Amex/Twitter Discount
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good price but this is most likely a refurb and from many past experiences there are problems that are never fixed. I’ve personally known many refurbs where people just restore the OS and do nothing else to address the previous problem- so when you buy a refurb you could very well be buying anothers problem. Manufacturer warranty aren’t that great either most of the time they will try to hardball you and not want to fix your laptop and even when they do finally decide to take a look at it you might have to end up paying to send it, to get it back, might have to pay for parts thats not covered under their limited warranty, and also you might have to wait weeks if not months before getting your tech back.
I disagree. In fact, brand-new laptops are actually more likely to fail than a refurb. Why? For a brand-new laptop, one laptop out of an arbitrarily-large sample (1,000 or 10,000 or something else) will be quality control tested to see if it works. If that laptop works, it’s assumed that the other 999 or 9,999 work as well, and the whole sample gets shipped off to stores to sell.
Sometimes a customer gets a laptop, decides (s)he doesn’t like it, and returns it to the seller or OEM. Or maybe the shipment was canceled while it was on the truck, unopened. Or it was returned before the return period (typically 21 to 30 days from shipment or something). Most refurbished items start off this way. Now, unlike new laptops, refurbished laptops have much better quality control, exactly because people like you and others are concerned about its quality. Whereas only 1/1,000 or 1/10,000 or so new laptops are actually tested, each and *every* refurbished laptop is tested to determine if anything was wrong with the system. If there is (say, hard drive failure or motherboard failure), the part is replaced with a new part. At any rate, it’s checked and steps are taken to have it pass quality control (the same QC tests that new laptops go through). Basically, they’re exactly like a brand-new laptop, but cannot be legally sold that way.
Not a laptop, but I have a refurbished Xbox 360Slim 4GB that I bought last fall and it works perfectly, and I paid a lot less for it than a new one ($150 vs $200). Also own a CPO (certified pre-owned) car, which is an auto equivalent to a refurbished item. Refurbished external DVD burner. Wii. and some other electronics I can’t remember off the top of my head. My point is, refurbished items are a great value and work perfectly fine (if not, return it like a new item).
Also, refurbished items (especially computers bought from Outlets like Dell’s) come with the same warranty as the brand-new version (for Insprion and other home laptops, 1yr depot; for their Latitude and Precision lines, 3yr NBD).