The Intel Core Duo 2 finally appears in the chinese market as the “Dimension 9200”:http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/dimen_9200_cn?c=cn&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn. They have a great “promotion”: right now where if you pay an extra 4000 RMB ($500), you get 2GB of memory and a 20″ monitor. Given that they make them in China, not a bad price and they deliver too!
Totally outfitted, it is 11,000 RMB or $1375 including 2GB of memory, 320GB hard drive and 20″ monitor. Not bad!