Dell Desktop Price Increase

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thenew3@reddit

Yup, our quotes have dropped from 30 days valid down to 15 days down to 7 days. Now it seems sometimes a quote given in the morning has gone up in price by the afternoon of the same day.

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SpotlessCheetah@reddit

Been known for months...

https://i.redd.it/edi18zhei6xg1.gif

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OhioIT@reddit

Is it expected to level off or decrease later in the year? I have desktops to buy later on

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HJForsythe@reddit

Yeah dude computing is over unless you are a trillion dollar company. It's only going to get worse.

If you want to see the most obvious evidence look at SNDK's stock.

It's gone from $30 to $1000 within a year.

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Main_Ambassador_4985@reddit

Lenovo laptops are 3x or 300% price of last April. In the $6k to $8k range each.

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drozenski@reddit

Bull shit. Just bought 10 today tricked out for $1750 each.

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Main_Ambassador_4985@reddit

Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen3 with Quadro 4000, 64 GB of RAM, and 1 TB nVME?

I buy 200 at $1,700

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black-buhr@reddit

Yes. Our Dell rep said that they once they run out of their supply in 2026, they won’t be able to fill orders until May of 27

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jmbre11@reddit

We just got a quote for 7 servers the servers about 10 k each the ram on the other hand is like 7k a stick

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gmaneac@reddit

Yep its not just desktop pricing. Its anything thats using RAM/SSDs right now. Everyone is blaming data centers.

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Embarrassed_Log_9964@reddit

Yep. We've basically stopped assuming any quote is valid for more than 24 hours at this point. Hardware budgeting has become a nightmare.

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Cotizo servidores dell a diario y llevan 8 meses subiendo un 7% cada dos semanas. Echad cuentas vosotros mismos... la vigencia de las ofertas son 7 o 14 dias con clausulas de que te pueden subir el precio aunque la quote tenga fecha vigente. Apestan.

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DestinyForNone@reddit

Yes.

We had the same configuration for devices go from $950 to over $1800 in the span of two weeks.

Talked to our rep, who got us requoted for close to the original price... But, don't know how long that's going to last going forward

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hondakillrsx@reddit

R760 that I paid $7000 for two years ago is now $17000. Nothing crazy, single socket Xeon. I hate everything...

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Stonewalled9999@reddit

Did you see the post where guy that pulled all the DDR3 in DDR4 out of all old servers and sold and made like 40 grand now granted he had a lot of servers but that’s just ridiculous

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Old_Ad_208@reddit

DDR3 still has value? We just recycled an old server with 256GB of RAM. We would have kept the RAM if we thought DDR3 still has value.

Is the best place to sell on EBay?

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Stonewalled9999@reddit

Sorry, I think I wasn’t clear I believe in the post was they sold the DDR for memory and used all the DDR three member to beef up old machines to say 16 or 32 gig instead of replacing them with new machines and getting creamed done pricing

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ihaxr@reddit

We need a new blade chassis and blades... it was like $400k a few years ago, $950k now

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MistaPeppah@reddit

Our $22k R760 jumped to $65k. Good times.

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Tamrail@reddit

Damn make my R660 $22k to $49k seam like a bargain

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FLATLANDRIDER@reddit

We had an R350 quoted in October. Division said they wanted to wait. Now they got it required for over 2x the cost.

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Hot-Comfort8839@reddit

Tariff policies and there's a war on that's blocking a massive glut of petrochemical derivatives from being made, and shipped to American manufacturing.

You're paying an artificially inflated price due to overwhelming demand, and artificially short supply.

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GhostandVodka@reddit

Not to mention Nvidia bought the entire industries ram chips for the next 3 years.

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Hot-Comfort8839@reddit

They didn’t do a very good job. China is literally overflowing with RAM right now. The bottom is dropped out of their market and it is functionally dirt cheap over there.

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DandadanAsia@reddit

the type of RAM that Nvidia bought is not the type of overflowing RAM in China.

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SpotlessCheetah@reddit

AI build out has more to do with it than tariff policies/war. Tariff policies mostly exempt a lot of things that are in desktops and laptops.

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Hot-Comfort8839@reddit

This only applies to completed electronics goods- there’s still a fuck ton of materials that go into a supply chain that are not the finished product that are extremely expensive right now.

Diesel fuel, for example, Naptha, all the derivatives needed to make plastics, cheap stamped steel for servers & systems enclosures, everything is 200-300% more now.

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SpotlessCheetah@reddit

You are not wrong but simultaneously, you are incorrect. Your belief is the war is driving up the costs more than what was actually coming. Which we talked about back in November, December, January, and February multiple times on this sub.

Adding the war situation exacerbates it a bit more. The real demand was known to be back in August 2025 when Jensen Huang showed that he had a 500b dollar backlog of orders.

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NetworkCompany@reddit

Wait till you see servers. Not only 245% increase but several months lead time as well, and you just can't get SED storage of any kind unless it's a spinning disc.

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timbotheny26@reddit

Don't they now also have clauses in their purchasing agreements that allow them to change the price even after you're committed?

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IAmSoWinning@reddit

Yes

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reilogix@reddit

Fuck it, I'm spinning up the PowerEdge R520 in my garage. These prices are NUTSO.

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Tulpen20@reddit

I have a trusty old R510 happily running along. There are a short stack of R630's loaded with RAM sitting next to me doing nothing because when we went cloud, I thought it was a shame to toss them. Now, however, their value may become invaluable.

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Stonewalled9999@reddit

I’m pulling R430s out of storage and seeing if I can eBay them

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radraze2kx@reddit

The computer repair side of my business is looking to have a bright future if the cost of replacement keeps going up.

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monstaface@reddit

What are the thoughts on if prices will go back down in the next 8 - 10 months because the supply chain is able to catch up? Trying to sort out if waiting a year to buy new hosts is worth it. Its a gamble rn.

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Excellent-Program333@reddit

Does anything ever come back down? My mentor once told me this. And I agree. Once it up, its the new normal.

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J-VV-R@reddit

One of the companies I do contract work for wait for the Quart deals.

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mrbostn@reddit

Dell Outlet is where I shop

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Old_Ad_208@reddit

That doesn’t work so well when you’re buying dozens or hundreds of laptops with the same configuration to make imaging and support easy.

I buy laptops for myself there, but I am buying one unit every five or six years.

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heavinglory@reddit

Top secret tip of mine since 1999.

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MrJoeMe@reddit

New here?

Seriously tho, our CAD spec laptop is up $500. Servers are 3x more and have random delivery dates from 1 month to "order is confirmed".

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xXNorthXx@reddit

Ordered the same configuration power edge servers for virtualization hosts under a year ago to now is just over a 300% increase.

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Ferretau@reddit

This is what happens when flash storage / GPU's are now focused on the AI/ML build out in data centers and no longer cares about the endpoint market.

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Coldsmoke888@reddit

Yeah. $800 to $1350 or something. No customization either, just a 14 and 16 version both with 32gb RAM.

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Small_Editor_3693@reddit

We are going full macOS this year

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TruthExposed@reddit

Their go to response is 'RAM shortage in the market'.....sorry my world's smallest violin has decided to play the song of "I'm off to your competitor".

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Own-Slide-3171@reddit

Ya were looking at 50-100% a month lately depending on model some way higher

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GhostandVodka@reddit

Bro...Is this yourr first day on the internet? the poweredge servers we bought 5 years ago cost us $400,000 are now $2.5 million

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JwCS8pjrh3QBWfL@reddit

This is the part that gives me serious schadenfreude for my old org. They were limping along R840s from 2017 that hadn't had support in years because they're cheap as fuck and refused to CapEx unless there was a gun to their head (I came close ngl), and now servers are going to be at least 3x what we were quoting a couple years ago. Idiots.

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Pyrostasis@reddit

We havent seen 245% but we have seen a $500 increase.

Our $1000 laptop is now $1500 and our $1500 is now $2000.

Getting damn close to gaming rig prices...

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weekendclimber@reddit

Wait until you look at gaming rig prices!!

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JwCS8pjrh3QBWfL@reddit

My primary SSD died recently. Even a sketchy 2TB NVMe is around $275 now; A brand name one is well over $300.

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Pyrostasis@reddit

yeah thank god the wife and I both upgraded last year so we should be good for another 2

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FearAndGonzo@reddit

Same, our basic standard laptop went up $500. We got wind of the price increase and ordered a about 200 of them three days before the jump.

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ciscotree@reddit

Yeah, same here. About 500 buck increase for the 32GB models. 16GB models are about 500 less. Getting a new 16GB laptop would basically be a lateral step for many of my users. All my new PCs are 32GB.

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mrbiggbrain@reddit

Are you speccing out a bunch of memory and storage? Those are the big cost centers that are seeing increases.

Went to order the exact same memory kit I got for $100 a few years ago only to see it was now $900. My NVME drive went up 450%.

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Pyrostasis@reddit

We're just doing laptops mainly. Seeing 30% to 50% increase over the last 6 months.

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chillzatl@reddit

yah nothing like that for us either, laptops that were $1200 are like $1600-ish now. Not great, not terrible.

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thewunderbar@reddit

Have you been living under a rock?

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Jealous_Crow1346@reddit

For the past 11 days? Probably.

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Comfortable_Lead_561@reddit

I think the shock of a 245% in 11 days is what is surprising to me, and I’ve been following the price hikes.

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EyeDontSeeAnything@reddit

Some don’t forecast as well as others.

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csjc2023@reddit

Coworker walked in with a box. Asked him what it was, it was 12x 128GB DIMMs. $60,000. $5000 per DIMM.

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Stonewalled9999@reddit

I’ll sell you my 64GB DIMMS for $1800 each !!!

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draggar@reddit

Please tell me 245% is a typo? I can see 25% increase (which if you have a good VAR they would have given you a heads up if they got one).

But yea, $900 laptops 5-6 months ago are now $1500.

Considering the increases in RAM and hard drives, systems are costing roughly 2/3 more than what they did 6 months ago.

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GhostandVodka@reddit

8TB SSDs for our new poweredge 500t are $23,000 a piece

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draggar@reddit

Honestly, today, 1-2TB SSDs should be the standard with an upgrade to 4TB for roughly $100.

But, 512GB-1TB are the standard still, with a 2TB upgrade that's over $100.

4TB at BestBuy and NewEgg are $1,000.

Same with RAM - 2x8 or 2x16 should be the standard but nope, single chips are.

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Stonewalled9999@reddit

You do realize that server SSD‘s are completely different class than the stuff you buy does buy right

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Stonewalled9999@reddit

Good golly you could have 24 disk direct SAS 10K spinning disks and 50 TB in RAID50 for that

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RestartRebootRetire@reddit

Outlet refurbs now look to be priced what I was paying for new ones a month ago with our discount.

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RestartRebootRetire@reddit

Cloud adoption by economic strangulation.

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Ichabod-@reddit

Our $700 standard build with educational pricing is now $1100.

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sgt_easton@reddit

You should chat up the guy that was complaining about server storage prices yesterday. Honestly, I'm jealous of the bubble you two live in.

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jbanelaw@reddit

A Dell Rep told me today to order now because they thought another 50% increase for many popular configurations was coming at the end of the month....

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ccsrpsw@reddit

Yep. End of April/Early May is next round. Have your Dell rep take it to finance if you have upcoming purchase numbers and or have spent a few mil or more last year.

Also Nothing like going from 1-2 per site per week to a few hundred at a time for cost saving if you can.

They should have a lot more wiggle room on monitors and peripherals if you can bundle those in the request too I’m told.

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rcook55@reddit

They've been screaming about price increases from the rooftop for at least the last 2 months. There is banner saying as much when you login to Premier.

This isn't new at all.

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old_cypherpunk@reddit

They sent out warning emails, even to partners in our firm who don't normally talk to Dell. Fortunately we did a full refresh earlier this year plus a few extras.

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IFarmZombies@reddit

Yes with Lenovo workstations

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stufforstuff@reddit

Wow, paying todays outrageous prices and going with the brand with crappy service and poor quality - you must be a masochist.

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cantsleepclownswillg@reddit

Mid march had a quote for 55 precision workstations at around £350K

Two weeks later told that they weren’t taking any workstation orders as the had 22,000 in line and enough hardware to fulfil 2000

And then the next week they stopped server orders.

Then HP quoted £1.4Million for the same spec.. with the caveat that they could change the price at any time up to dispatch.

Lenovo quoted similar daft prices with a 4 month lead time.

It’s fucking mental out there.

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PsychologicalAioli45@reddit

Strange, I've only seen a small increase in desktop prices on my Premier site. Servers have gone up a lot though.

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TerrificVixen5693@reddit

You can’t seriously just be realizing this can you

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ADynes@reddit

So something weird is going on with dell. Pretty standard desktop I order is a Micro Tower with a core 5, 16 gigs of ram, 256 gig ssd. Nothing special. Last one I bought was $700. Had to order one yesterday exact same config was $1300.

However in my Premier pages I have two standard laptop configurations and they've barely moved. Dell Pro Plus 16, core 5, 32 gigs of ram, 512 GB hard drive, touch screen, went from 1620 to 1680. Just bought five of them in the last 2 weeks. I don't know if the standard configurations don't get pricing increases? Which seems like a huge oversight and probably not true but I also can't explain why the price hasn't really moved.

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veechip@reddit

what config are you using? mine only increased about 15%

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Velvet_Samurai@reddit

The model of Lenovo laptop I buy went from $800 to $1300. I knew it was coming, my rep mentioned every time I ordered one, and I stopped ordering only 1, I was buying them 2 at a time all year long. Was hoping to make it to August, but April is all I got

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disposeable1200@reddit

By end of May RAM and SSDs are at 400% compared to November...

So uh yeah, not surprised

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Rio__Grande@reddit

And even if you order it, it may go unavailable and you'll have to pay an increase