Black Friday: Notebook Deals Direct from Dell

Dell is offering discounts on its full range of consumer notebooks for Black Friday, including its Inspiron, Studio and XPS models. Dell’s offering up to $370 in savings on its notebooks to kick off the holiday shopping season.

One deal that really caught my eye was the Dell XPS M1530 for $1,029. Dell’s chopping $319 off of the retail price and throwing in a Magellan 1400 GPS that’s worth $199. The XPS M1530 (E-Value Code 16254-DYPHHE1) comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (T5850), Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1, 4GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS GPU. It also comes with a two-year warranty with in-home service. You can customize the Black Friday XPS M1530 with your choice of four colors. This deal is good through 12/3/08.

You can also get the free Magellan 1400 GPS with the purchase of an XPS M1330 for $1,029. The XPS M1330 on sale for Black Friday comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (T5850), Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1, 4GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS GPU. It comes with a two-year warranty with in-home service. The Black Friday XPS M1330 is e-value code 16254-DYPHTE1.You can customize the Black Friday XPS M1330 with your choice of five colors. This deal is good through 12/3/08.

The Dell Stuido 15 and Studio 17 are also on sale if you’re looking for something with a little more style than the Dell Inspiron line. The Dell Studio 15 (evalue code 16254-DNPHUD2) is on sales for $699 after a $245 discount. It comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5800, Windows Vista Home Premium SP1, 3GB of memory, 320GB hard drive, and DVD burner. It’s available in seven colors.

The Dell Studio 17 on sale for Black Friday includes the same specifications as the above Dell Studio 15 except it has a Inte Core 2 Dup processor T5900. It’s priced at $799 after a $349 discount and can be ordered in your choice of seven colors..

The most affordable Dell on sale for Black Friday is the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. This netbook will cost just $299, a $50 discount off normal pricing. This is the Ubuntu version of the Mini 9 that comes with 512MB of memory and a 4GB solid state drive. The Black Friday discount on the Mini 9 is only good through 11/28.

If you want something relatively small, but need more power than a netbook can deliver you should take a look at the Dell Inspiron 13. It comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5800, Vista Home Premium SP1, 3GB of memory , a 320GB hard drive and a DVD burner. This configuration is only $699, which is $329 below Dell’s normal pricing.

If you’re looking for a mainstream dell with decent specifications you should consider Dell’s Inspiron 1525 (evalue code 16254-DNPHPD4). This notebook is priced at just $559, which reflects a $285 discount. it comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5800, Vista Home Basic SP1, 3GB of memory, a 250GB hard drive, DVD burner and 2.0MP webcam. Buyers get to choose from seven colors and one pattern.

All of Dell’s Black Friday specials include free shipping.

Before you get too excited about these and other Black Friday notebooks, please read this recent Notebooks.com article:

15 Tips for Buying a Black Friday Notebook (or Not Buying One)

For more Black Friday Notebook deals, visit the Notebooks.com Black Friday page.