This whole marketing scheme is ridiculous. If you want to configure the m1330 red to something decent (more than 1gb memory, slim lcd, discrete video card, better hard drive), you now you have to pay an incredibly huge premium over the other xps m1330's, and only a trifling amount of that premium goes to charity.
Basically you're paying for the red color (which you USED to be able to get on a regular m1330) and the special vista program (which I could care less about). Add on to that the features I mentioned above and it's now about 800 dollars more expensive than the plain m1330 in red used to be. Dell makes a huge profit and charity gets hardly anything. Dell really should be ashamed.
What a dweeb. Why don't you share with us just how much YOU gave to charity this year? The Product Red program is a business model as is stated in their own manifesto. Why should Dell be ashamed that they're giving quite a lot of money to charity? I'm about 5 minutes from hitting the button to buy a red 1530. The price rings up to about $80 more than the black one. Not much considering you're getting Vista Ultimate instead of Premium. If you were to add on Ultimate to the black model it's an extra $150. So then, maybe you should redo your math. But, then again, you're probably too busy working with your many charities.
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This whole marketing scheme is ridiculous. If you want to configure the m1330 red to something decent (more than 1gb memory, slim lcd, discrete video card, better hard drive), you now you have to pay an incredibly huge premium over the other xps m1330's, and only a trifling amount of that premium goes to charity.
Basically you're paying for the red color (which you USED to be able to get on a regular m1330) and the special vista program (which I could care less about). Add on to that the features I mentioned above and it's now about 800 dollars more expensive than the plain m1330 in red used to be. Dell makes a huge profit and charity gets hardly anything. Dell really should be ashamed.
What a dweeb. Why don't you share with us just how much YOU gave to charity this year? The Product Red program is a business model as is stated in their own manifesto. Why should Dell be ashamed that they're giving quite a lot of money to charity? I'm about 5 minutes from hitting the button to buy a red 1530. The price rings up to about $80 more than the black one. Not much considering you're getting Vista Ultimate instead of Premium. If you were to add on Ultimate to the black model it's an extra $150. So then, maybe you should redo your math. But, then again, you're probably too busy working with your many charities.