What's happened to the Athlon x2 4800+?

[mark.green]

I thought it wasn't out yet, but people are reporting having them. I
can't find any UK supplier with stock, though: anyone know what's
happened?

 

[John Weiss]

I thought it wasn't out yet, but people are reporting having them. I
can't find any UK supplier with stock, though: anyone know what's
happened?

Newegg has/had them. I don't know if they ship to the UK...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103544

 

[Ed]

I thought it wasn't out yet, but people are reporting having them. I
can't find any UK supplier with stock, though: anyone know what's
happened?

They've been out for awhile now, some vendors just can't get as many as
they'd like, and sell out fast.

May 31, 2005 - AMD today announced the immediate availability of the AMD
Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor.

Ed

 

[Lynn McGuire]

I thought it wasn't out yet, but people are reporting having them. I

can't find any UK supplier with stock, though: anyone know what's
happened?

I got one from www.newegg.com a couple of weeks ago. Very, very
fast.

Lynn

 

[Brian]

On 26 Jul 2005 09:14:12 -0700, (e-mail address removed) wrote:

They've been out for awhile now, some vendors just can't get as many as
they'd like, and sell out fast.

Speaking of selling out, it's a sad day indeed when CDW beats the
socks off of newegg pricing.

 

[Ed]

Speaking of selling out, it's a sad day indeed when CDW beats the
socks off of newegg pricing.

ADA4800CDBOX


CDW
$1,269.13
2+ Weeks

Newegg
$1,099.00
ETA: 7/29/2005

 

[Yadayada]

Speaking of selling out, it's a sad day indeed when CDW beats the
socks off of newegg pricing.

That would be a sad day. Thankfully, it hasn't yet come. I don't see how
places like CDW stay in business.

 

[Brian]

CDW
$1,269.13
2+ Weeks

Newegg
$1,099.00
ETA: 7/29/2005

Sorry, I should have told the entire story. I had our purchaser put
through a CDW government quote on a 4400+ for kicks. CDW's government
pricing isn't anything special - usually it just brings their prices
to sane/still expensive levels.

CDW Athlon X2 4400+ : $624.00
Newegg Athlong X2 4400+ : $729.00

CDW had worse prices on every other item in the quote. No surprises.

It's pretty clear newegg is gouging on the X2. They went up on the
chip by $20 yesterday, right after they ran out of stock. Classic
economics. Yep, newegg is on the cusp of stocking the chip, probably
because of the price. All the retailers who are $100 cheaper are
backordered.

 

[Brian]

That would be a sad day. Thankfully, it hasn't yet come. I don't see how
places like CDW stay in business.

Yeah, no kidding! Too many managers who think opensource=bad and
small resellers=flybynight scam?

 

[Dave]

I got one from www.newegg.com a couple of weeks ago. Very, very
fast.

Wow, he wants an UK (United Kingdom, Great Brittain or simply England) site
and you give him an USA site. Do you have shit for brains?

Obviously!

Dave

 

[J.Venning]

Wow, he wants an UK (United Kingdom, Great Brittain or simply England)
site and you give him an USA site. Do you have shit for brains?
Obviously!
Dave

Aren't you a bit hard on the girl (Lynn) ? She was only trying to help.
After all I live in Denmark, and I've had items ordered and sent to me from
newegg; so has my daughter, who lives and works in Glasgow. No offence
intended, but the Internet has opened a wide new door to shopping round the
world - for better or worse.
J.

 

[J.Venning]

Wow, he wants an UK (United Kingdom, Great Brittain or simply England)
site and you give him an USA site. Do you have shit for brains?
Obviously!
Dave

Aren't you a bit hard on the girl (Lynn) ? She was only trying to help.
After all I live in Denmark, and I've had items ordered and sent to me from
newegg; so has my daughter, who lives and works in Glasgow. No offence
intended, but the Internet has opened a wide new door to shopping round the
world - for better or worse.
J.

 

[Dave]

Aren't you a bit hard on the girl (Lynn) ? She was only trying to help.
After all I live in Denmark, and I've had items ordered and sent to me
from newegg; so has my daughter, who lives and works in Glasgow. No
offence intended, but the Internet has opened a wide new door to shopping
round the world - for better or worse.

Probably a bit harsh, but in my part of the world they don't deliver to, at
least they didn't last time I checked which was about 6 months ago. Perhaps
they changed policy in that time but it is actually cheaper to get hardware
locally than to pay the extras for currency conversion, taxes and shipping,
etc as long as you don't minding waiting a few months for volume shipping to
reach our shores. Being down on the shipping lists does have its benefits,
by the time volume shipping hits our shores, the lab rats of the USA market
have all ready pointed out the problems and we get the later and cheaper
revisions, for the most part.

I think I should have said something to the OP about being lazy and not
checking a London phonebook and googling for some hardware sites.

I am pleased to hear you and others actually got stuff shipped to Europe
from newegg. It was my impression (outdated?) that they did not want to
ship to Canada, let alone Europe.

Dave

 

[J.Venning]

(snip)
I am pleased to hear you and others actually got stuff shipped to Europe
from newegg. It was my impression (outdated?) that they did not want to
ship to Canada, let alone Europe.
Dave

I've had items shipped to me from the States by several companies,
including newegg, but like you so correctly pointed out, I had to pay those
extra charges in shipping and packaging, not to mention tax and VAT. My
colleagues and I have now found a German company which somehow can go round
all that, so we are no longer patronizing the shops across the Atlantic as
far as postal orders are concerned. I visit the U.S. once a year, so I can
have items ordered and sent to our elder daughter in Michigan and pick them
up when we get there.
J.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

Wow, he wants an UK (United Kingdom, Great Brittain or simply England) site
and you give him an USA site. Do you have shit for brains?

Obviously!

Dave

Gee Dave, talk about shit for brains. If you can't buy something in your
own country you buy it from elsewhere. I live in the US and I've bought
items from other countries when they aren't sold in the US. For example I
bought a milk frother which is no longer sold in the US (I suspect our
lawyers probably scared them away because it's possible to scald yourself
with hot milk). It was still available in the UK and Canada so I ordered
one from Canada. That was a cheap $19 item but since I couldn't get it any
other way and I really like these frothers I was willing to pay the extra
shipping charges. An A64 4800+ is over a thousand dollars so the shipping
charges are going to be trivial in comparison. If the OP wants a 4800+ and
can't get in the UK he can get it from the US.

Welcome to the 21st century.

 

[J.Venning]

Gee Dave, talk about shit for brains. If you can't buy something in your
own country you buy it from elsewhere... (snip)<

I would just like to point out that Dave had written an apology earlier
on, so let's not "beat a dead horse" - no, I'm not referring anyone as a
dead horse.
J.