A 19" laptop?!?!

[~Shard~]

Dell just wants to be cooler than apple.... For the moment

Good luck with that Michael.... 😎

 

[dotdotdot]

cool... 19" of... WAIT - 20 LBS! lol

 

[JeffTL]

I remember when the Inspiron XPS first came out and was more expensive than a Dell desktop plus a 17" PowerBook. I think they may be cheaper now than then but I don't know for sure.

I guess I just don't get the whole LAN party thing beyond the point of lugging a tower or a SFF PC.

Why not just get a Power Mac G5 and carry it by the handles?

 

[zach]

I think the problem with this picture is that Dell's 17" laptop already weighs at LEAST 8.6 pounds... If you scale this up by the same percentage as the PowerBook 15" to 17" (which is completely inaccurate, as the increase would be MORE than this, but as I don't have a numerical mind like Doctor Q, I can't give you perfect stats), Dell's 19" would weigh at LEAST 10.5 pounds, and probably quite a bit more.

I can't see carrying that beast around, lol.

 

[mkrishnan]

Dell's 19" would weigh at LEAST 10.5 pounds, and probably quite a bit more.

Hope that thing comes with a free gym membership! 😱

Time to praise the virtues of 12" and smaller notebooks! 😀

 

[homerjward]

does anyone actually make a decent-rez 19" widescreen panel? the only 19"ers i know of are 5:4 1280x1024😕that would suck for a laptop.

 

[~Shard~]

does anyone actually make a decent-rez 19" widescreen panel? the only 19"ers i know of are 5:4 1280x1024😕that would suck for a laptop.

Sometimes people do things without thinking first. 😉

 

[mkrishnan]

Sometimes people do things without thinking first. 😉

I'd almost think it'd have to be a new screen...it's going to need a lot more res than 1280x1024! 😱 But I just can't imagine strapping a 19" notebook to my back. Maybe they'll only sell it to really, really big people. 😱

 

[~Shard~]

I'd almost think it'd have to be a new screen...it's going to need a lot more res than 1280x1024! 😱 But I just can't imagine strapping a 19" notebook to my back. Maybe they'll only sell it to really, really big people. 😱

Like I said before, sometimes I see the 17" as too big in some respects...

 

[calyxman]

This is meant to be an outright desktop replacement, where portability remains an option but it's secondary.

 

[~Shard~]

This is meant to be an outright desktop replacement, where portability remains an option but it's secondary.

Isn't that the Mac mini? A desktop which is essentially portable? Throw it in your pocket almost, take it over to friends/family, hook it into their display and bam, there you go!