I just bought a XPS 17 ($1100 with i7 2670, 17" FHD AG screen, 8GB ram, DVD, 3GB GT 555M, 2 x 750GB HDD) - been waiting for new XPS 17 laptops from the Dell outlet for months…
There are quite a few XPS 17/XPS 15z left…be quick! :)
They are with slightly different config hence price. But I noticed the price/spec is not always correlated (eg. sometimes a laptop with only 1 HDD is more expensive than one with 2 HDD while all other specs are the same). Looks like Dell is manually assigning prices to them. You just need to pick out the bargains (like I did LOL).
Is the laptop you bought in the list? Can't see it there.