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13.3", LED Backlit, Santa Rosa Laptop... from Dell
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No Sleep tonight
There is no way I can go to bed now. It's 10:30 PM here. I've had the cash for an upgrade sitting in my account for a month now and been waiting patiently, I could walk into a store tomorrow and buy one. WHOO HOO!
C'mon Steve - show me why you get paid the big dollars .....(well, dollar actually).
Does anyone know if the free iPod for students offer is worldwide or just U.S.?
It's going to be a loverly day.
http://dijital.podOmatic.com/entry/eg/2007-05-31T20_31_14-07_00
for some tunes to wait by.
There is no way I can go to bed now. It's 10:30 PM here. I've had the cash for an upgrade sitting in my account for a month now and been waiting patiently, I could walk into a store tomorrow and buy one. WHOO HOO!
C'mon Steve - show me why you get paid the big dollars .....(well, dollar actually).
Does anyone know if the free iPod for students offer is worldwide or just U.S.?
It's going to be a loverly day.
http://dijital.podOmatic.com/entry/eg/2007-05-31T20_31_14-07_00
for some tunes to wait by.Having lived with a Vaio in a past life let me draw your attention to the wisdom of Darth Vader:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....
That is all.
wasnt it Michael whatsisiname, Prez of DELL, who said he would be "happy to put/allow OS X" into his computers.
then like DRM, watch the Dominoes fall.
then like DRM, watch the Dominoes fall.
What a lame 'radical' new laptop from Dell. Only appealing thing about I can think of is 4lb weight. Released today.
If Apple does an ultra-portable it will be thinner for sure, and even if it weighed a little more, virtually everyone on MR will be saying the Dell is POS compared to Apple's solution.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/06/26/dell.m1330.and.notebooks/
If Apple does an ultra-portable it will be thinner for sure, and even if it weighed a little more, virtually everyone on MR will be saying the Dell is POS compared to Apple's solution.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/06/26/dell.m1330.and.notebooks/
I don't think I'd call it lame - it seems like a nice improvement on the previous XPSM1210 at least. As soon as Sony releases a Santa Rosa version of the SZ though, with switchable GMAX3100/GeForce 8400M graphics, I don't think this XPSM1330 will have many advantages over it (and frankly, the XPSM1330 gets pretty pricey once you configure it closer to an SZ).
Form factor, Santa Rosa, and graphics options.
Even the Inspiron line has the 8600M GT w/256 MB as an option. Not 128 MB...
I'm not sure what your point is exactly. At the base price, I still don't see how the XPSM1330 is a "MacBook killer"; how does the form factor kill it? I might be missing something but how does the XPSm1330 form factor kill it? For the kinds of stuff people use it for, what difference does Santa Rosa make? GMAX3100 graphics are somewhat better than GMA950, but still terrible. Once you start configuring it up with an 8400M GS, etc. , it gets to be a lot more expensive than a MacBook anyway.
Regarding the Inspiron line, again, so what? You can get a MBP with an 8600MGT with 256MB of VRAM as well. I won't go into detail on this again, but the Inspiron 1520 has a lot of glaring weaknesses compared to the MBP as well (6.4 pounds is pretty heavy, it's much thicker, etc.).
What's your point then exactly?
maybe that if i wasn't a mac fan and would consider to switch i would make following comparison:
i want a 13.3inch notebook and $500 more is not an issue to me.
i can get a fully maxed out dell with good graphics.
i can get a fully maxed out macbook with weak gpu.
i decide not to switch. so dell just killed one macbook sale. that makes it a macbook killer. (i'm of course a mac fan and wouldn't buy a windows machine, but for other people OS X isn't that important.)
now on the 15.4 inch notebooks apple has a good offer with the MBP. but in the 13.3 inch range apple is weak in the moment for customers who don't compare price but only features. and there are a lot of people out there like me who rather spend $500 more to get what they want (no i'm not rich, i keep my notebooks for many years. therefore i have to like them.)
my two cents.
Yes, I will admit that Apple doesn't have a premium 13.3" MacBook (or even the requested 13.3" MBP) that would compete in the $2000 range with a loaded XPSM1330 or a Sony SZ.
i can see why apple is reluctant to offer a notebook in this range. it could be that a notbook like this turns out to be too expensive and it doesn't sell. or it sells very well but draws away sales from MB and 15" MBP's. it's certainly a risk. but half of my friends and coworkers want premium notebooks in the 12"-14" range. eventually apple will have to offer something there.
i personally still don't know if i want a maxed out 15" MBP or a cheap white MB. so i don't buy. if there was a powerful (2.2GHz, 2GB, 160GB HD, Superdrive, firewire 800, medium range GPU) 13" MBP i would have bought one already.
well there is always hope....
There's been rumors floating around for a long time about some sort of premium ultraportable MBP, so who knows. Maybe later this year we'll see something, or at Macworld.