AMD Based Dell Laptops Are Expensive

Last week, Dell announced its first mobile AMD based products. All things considered, this idea is not among the brightest Dell had but nevertheless offers an alternative to the all present Centrino platform.

However, one might expect these new products to be cheaper than their INTEL based counterparts, since a Centrino notebook can usually sustain a higher battery time than a Turion based one. And, when you get to the performance part, AMD loses in the same manner the desktop CPUs do.

So why would Dell put such a high price tag on his AMD line? If you make a quick comparison between a Core 2 Duo @ 1.83GHz and the Turion TL-56, you roughly get the same 2GBs of Ram and the same 80GB hard disks. Why should you pay $1049 for AMD when you can pay $1019 for INTEL? And to complicate things even more, if you choose Centrino, you can customize the platform way more than the AMD based one, which has several limitations.

I don’t get Dell’s move. Ok, maybe one can understand why they are so eager to mass release their AMD laptops, but how come they get to be more expensive than INTEL ones? Is it because Dell itself launched several rumors that there is a channel shortage concerning laptop components and that the production of mobile gadgets is going down and now it’s trying to prove that they’ve solved the problem? If they created and - at the same time - solved the problem, why not charge as much as possible for their products. People who fall for the story will buy them anyway.

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