Desktop Deals - Desktop Packages and PC Deals

Dell Home offers the Dell XPS 8500 Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 3.4GHz Desktop PC for $799.99. Coupon code "0H9Q3PQ6L3744C" cuts it to $749.99. With free shipping, that's tied with last week's mention for the second lowest total price we've seen for a Dell XPS 8500 with 12GB RAM and a 1TB hard drive since Black Friday week, when we saw a similar configuration (with a Blu-ray drive) for $20 less. (We saw this same configuration for $10 less last month.) This desktop features an Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz Ivy Bridge quad-core processor, 12GB RAM, 1TB 7200 rpm hard drive, AMD Radeon HD 7570 1GB graphics card, DVD burner drive, 802.11n wireless, Bluetooth 4.0+LE, Gigabit Ethernet, media card reader, and Windows 8 64-bit. Deal ends May 30.

Dell Home offers its Dell XPS 8500 Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 3.4GHz Desktop PC (no monitor) for $729.99. Coupon code "0H9Q3PQ6L3744C" cuts it to $679.99. With free shipping, that's $50 off and the lowest total price we could find, although we saw a similarly configured XPS 8500 (with an AMD Radeon 1GB video card) for $20 less last week (since expired). It features an Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz Ivy Bridge quad-core processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB 7200 rpm hard drive, DVD burner, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 1GB graphics card, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n wireless, Bluetooth 4.0+LE, media card reader, and Windows 8 64-bit.

For in-store pickup only, Micro Center offers the refurbished HP Pavilion AMD 20-b010 AMD A4 1.4GHz All-in-One 20" Desktop PC, model no. H3Y89AA#ABA, for $299.99. That's tied with our mention from two weeks ago as the best price we've seen for any Pavilion All-in-One PC. (It's also $120 under the lowest price we could find for a new unit elsewhere.) Features include an AMD E1-1200 1.4GHz dual-core processor, 20" 1600x900 LED-Backlit LCD, 4GB RAM, 500GB 7200 rpm hard drive, AMD Radeon HD 7310 graphics, DVD burner, 802.11n wireless, webcam, two USB 3.0 ports, and Windows 8.

A 90-day warranty applies, although it's unclear who backs it.