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59 Million Americans Prohibited From Buying High-End Dell Gaming PCs (because of state energy regulations)

Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 1 month ago to Politics
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"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."

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  • Posted by $ gharkness 4 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    You are not wrong, but finding even the components is difficult, as my son custom-building my newest desktop at the end of last year found out. We had to compromise a little bit, but then I'm not a gamer. What I ended up with was perfectly suited for my graphics design work, and fast as blazes; however my 6-year old Dell laptop isn't a whole lot slower, depending of course on what I am doing and how hard I push.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 4 years, 1 month ago
    This is the kind of thing that causes me to leave my toaster and oven on all day.
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  • Posted by TheOldMan 4 years, 1 month ago
    There are many light bulbs that cannot be sold in CA for the same reason. I typically buy them online, ship them to a relative's house (free shipping) and send them a prepaid UPS label to ship them to me.
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  • Posted by Lucky 4 years, 1 month ago
    Great business for Nevada border towns, no not that, selling personal computers labeled as Not legal in California.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I have one of those Precision Dual Xeon machines. Cost about $300 iirc, 12 cores 24Gb 3 drives about 5 yrs ago used.
    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.
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  • Posted by mhubb 4 years, 1 month ago
    that's ok
    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
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  • Posted by Dobrien 4 years, 1 month ago
    Sounds like a Nevada entrepreneur should market the gameing desk tops to the Kommiefornia rules for thee but not for me crowd.
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