59 Million Americans Prohibited From Buying High-End Dell Gaming PCs (because of state energy regulations)
Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 8 months ago to Politics
Excerpt:
"Approximately 59 million Americans spanning five states can't buy Dell's high-end Alienware brand desktop PCs "due to power consumption regulations."
When one goes to the Dell Alienware online configurator to buy an Aurora R12 gaming desktop, a special notice appears which reads:
This product cannot be shipped to the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to power consumption regulations adopted by those states. Any orders placed that are bound for those states will be canceled."
"Approximately 59 million Americans spanning five states can't buy Dell's high-end Alienware brand desktop PCs "due to power consumption regulations."
When one goes to the Dell Alienware online configurator to buy an Aurora R12 gaming desktop, a special notice appears which reads:
This product cannot be shipped to the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to power consumption regulations adopted by those states. Any orders placed that are bound for those states will be canceled."
Lol
Fortunately my business partner usually catches and corrects my error ;^)
I don't have any games installed on them. Just computing power!
i am ONLY buying a Dell as my company swapped to them
and they are having issues getting them
so much for saving money...
i'll buy a used one, Dual Xeon processors from eBay, 12 cores, 48gb ram
My 3 yr old 6-core i5-8500k (homebuilt) is much faster on both single core and multi core tasks, runs cooler, and uses 40% less power though.
The high end Dells might be of interest to serious gamers, but real throughput on other normal tasks they are not noticeably faster.
http://Userbenchmark.com is a good site to do real world comparisons, imo.
Gamers probably will build their own. Hard for the state to intervene.
Ebay enforces a full refund on the seller if they don't work - unless they are advertised as not working. I had such a refund on a gpu and the seller didn't want it shipped back. (As it happened, it was still under warranty and the manufacturer replaced it for the cost of shipping it. I'm using it today and they sell for about $200 used on Ebay. Sometimes you win.;^)
Used parts: Cpu, motherboard, cpu heatsink, gpu.
I bought new memory and drives from newegg.com.
I've been doing this for the past 10 years since there haven't been any performance breakthroughs in about 12 years. So far, so good. I had a used motherboard fail 5 years after purchase, used cpus and memory still good after 7 years (and to be sold on Ebay.)
Software issues today may be more of a problem for me since I won't 'upgrade' to W10.
Prices of used gpus have been affected by demand from farms of gpus being used to make cryptocurrencies. I haven't heard of other supply issues though.
Hell, I'd even offer to buy one for any resident of those states and ship it to them -- for a fee ;^)