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Mr. Anderson said:
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hhhmmmm.... battlestar galactica...
 
Haha Dell. You're funny. No, really, where's the real design? :D




Hey. I just noticed. How come every other company has like a billion logos on their designs. Like "DVD" "Recordable" "CDRW" "Intel", and on top of that, have multi-colored stickers with the specs on them? On top of that people DON'T take them off!!! What are they trying to prove, is the box not enough proof? They look hideous! :confused: :confused: :confused:
 
Come on, guys, it's not that bad. The laptop only weighs 8.6 pounds and is 1.67 inches thick. That's tiny, right? And it comes with Dell's excellent suite of music, photo, and video software. And WordPerfect, too! Wowser! I'm sold!
 
Mmmm...I think the 600m design looks better than this one. :(

Speaking of cylons... please tell me all those red lights on this laptop are either not real or at least don't flash?

I'm having trouble understanding what's luxurious about this too.... Why would I want this instead of a thinkpad?
 
Mr. Anderson said:
Again, the words Dell and Design should never be used in the same sentence....

Some other pics from the web site (below) seem to have been influenced by original Cylon designs from the 80s :p

That is too funny... and unfortunately for Dell... seems to be true. There is no denying the similarity!
 
Those aren't flashing red lights on the Dell notebook. That is a coal furnace. Everyone likes burning coal!

"Another Delleterious Innovation"™.
 
Sedulous said:
Those aren't flashing red lights on the Dell notebook. That is a coal furnace. Everyone likes burning coal!

Maybe it's powered by coal? No need to recharge the batteries! Woohoo!
 
Its a gaming laptop. I don't understand why they associated "gaming" with "luxury." It has amazing specs, and I wish Apple would offer specs that were just as good (or slightly worse to keep the PBs at 1" thick).

I mean, their 6000 model isn't bad. My professor has one. Another friend has that 700m 12" Dell, and it looks nice (until you touch it and feel that it's cheap, but that's just a matter of using different materials.....the design is okay).

If they make a "luxury" line, don't make it hideous. If I'd be embarrassed to use it at a meeting, it's not "luxury."
 
eva01 said:
that laptop honeslty looks like it would weigh 8 pounds
Dell XPS, 8.6lbs, costs from $2760 (how about this one link)

Yes, it's faster than the PowerBook, 2.26GHz P-M, with 1GB RAM and 100GB HD, but weighs almost twice as much, and runs Windows. I can't see why anyone would want such an enormous laptop. If you prefer a thin and light laptop, you still pay for it in the PC world.
 
plinden said:
Yes, it's faster than the PowerBook, 2.26GHz P-M, with 1GB RAM and 100GB HD, but weighs almost twice as much, and runs Windows. I can't see why anyone would want such an enormous laptop. If you prefer a thin and light laptop, you still pay for it in the PC world.

It's a desktop replacement then. I know a few people who's in the marked for such things... something powerful that can be easily moved. A smaller laptop whouldn't be powerful enough, any form of desktop whould not be portable enough.
 
Blue Velvet said:
Whatever the specs, they still look cheesy. Hang some fluffy dice off them.

I am so glad you have returned and are writing concise and accurate reviews.

:D
 
ColoJohnBoy said:
Come on, guys, it's not that bad....it comes with Dell's excellent suite of music, photo, and video software. And WordPerfect, too! Wowser! I'm sold!
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Yeah. I know it was sarcasm.
 
Yeah, that is one of the ugliest designs I've seen in a while. But look at those specs! Can you imagine how fast a 2GHz Pentium M would be? My friend has a 1.3GHz Centrino notebook and iTunes & Firefox run soooooo much faster on his computer than mine (1.33 GHz iBook). Everything just "snaps" into place on the screen. Apple can't switch to Intel fast enough.
 
jamdr said:
Yeah, that is one of the ugliest designs I've seen in a while. But look at those specs! Can you imagine how fast a 2GHz Pentium M would be? My friend has a 1.3GHz Centrino notebook and iTunes & Firefox run soooooo much faster on his computer than mine (1.33 GHz iBook). Everything just "snaps" into place on the screen. Apple can't switch to Intel fast enough.

As far as I understand, the way OS X redraws the screen is slower because the process is more complex (not because the G4/5 is slower). When Windows Vista comes out... it too will loose "the snappy" because Vista renders windows like OS X (big surprise).
 
chucknorris said:
I don't understand why everybody is so impressed with the specs...they don't even come close to making up for the OS, manufacturer, and vomit-inducing design.
Yes, but that's what we can hope to expect in the Intel PBs, which is what is exciting at least many of us.
 
Any Laptop with the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX will be that big and heavy. I wouln't mind a PowerBook that big if it had that speed: 2GB of DDR2, 2.26GHz Intel Pentium M, 100GB 7200-RPM Hard Drive, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX with 256MB ...It's super fast...and it would be cool if it ran OS X.
 
chucknorris said:
I don't understand why everybody is so impressed with the specs...they don't even come close to making up for the OS, manufacturer, and vomit-inducing design.

Well, Dell understands how marketing works. Corrugated materials are tightly associated with class and luxury. Here are some well known uses for corrugated plastic and aluminum:

class:

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luxury:

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Dell:
 

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whenever I see the title of this thread, it makes me think Dell rented a cruise ship
and is now cruising the oceans
forcing people to use Dells.

and I'm just baffled!
I mean, they have sea sickness to contend with AND using a dell?
Come on Dell, wake up.

I hear the shade of blue used in the BSOD only amplifies motion sickness!

WHY DO YOU HATE THE SEA-FARING PUBLIC, DELL? HUH? WHY!??

/ewww.. dell cruise...
//wouldn't mind going on this cruise
///when I googled it, geekcruises.com wasn't the first or 2nd result.. I had to go to a macrumors archived post!
////MacRumors owns the internet?
/////I want 90% of all profit. Please?
 
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