I found this article to be very interesting. It's nice to see that Dell is going for a higher caliber of product, it should make things interesting in our space. Even more interesting is the reporter made a point that Apple doesn't need to spend as much on advertising because of their cool designs/brand. They basically get PR based on their cool products, reminding me of Voodoo in many ways.In any case, this story is worth the read.
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Haha interesting look...Looks like a amplipher to a car
cool...that's something I sunk into...
What makes it better other than the fancy looks?
Dell to me has always been a good choice for robust, simple, cheap systems. If they start to jazz up the outside, and increase the price, im not certain I will go with them. I mean how many real gamers and modders and power users are going to buy from dell? These people should be building their own systems.
Bathrooms..R2K..Rocketry.
My good friend has the first generation of the XPS laptop. His mom got it for him for a high school graduation present. He built a computer about 3 months later because his "gaming laptop" wouldn't even run COD without making you go insane. To me every Dell gaming computer has been a dissapointment. I was just at their website and it was basically 5 grand to build something decent (still had Intel in it though, boo). Dell in the gaming business just doesn't make sense because anyone who doesn't want to build their own will shop at alienware or voodoo or somethign like that. With dell you also get that crappy Dell bios thing where you cannot change anything.
Apple may have a "cool" look but if you want to play a game ever (besides WoW and Warcraft 3) good luck. G5 towers are great for graphic design though.
now we need something xps level in a 5lb package. I heard you can mod an xps or inspiron 9300 to accept a 7800gtx
I'm a big Dell guy. I have an XPS P3 733 that's been a tank. So when I couldn't take the slowness anymore, I picked up an XPS 600 at launch since it was less than $3000 even with the 20 inch LCD digital widescreen. Plus the XPS only support queue is a nice perk.
The problem was that it pretty much came DOA, while the shipping box and packing was fine the media card reader was three inches into the case (it must has shifted), the DVD writer wasn't appearing under hardware profiles and after the first boot, it never came back up. I did however dig the lights on the case.
Now Dell did me right, they returned the system and let me keep the monitor for a small up charge that was still way less than the if I bought the monitor by itself while I tried to figure out my next purchase.
I ended up going with an AMD X2 4400 with SLI system from XI Computer since they were able to customize it to my specs and delier it to me for a lower price (due in part to AMD's chip prices) before I could get another XPS 600.
- Start whinning here -
I wish I had the coin for an Omen..
- End whine -
But it will be interesting to see how the XPS line picks off those fringe consummers who might go with a high end build. Especialy if they suck it up and sell AMDs in their rigs (you can get them in the Dell shop which is just odd)
Thanks for the post Rahul
that, is one of the most ugly things i have ever seen. *shudder* *hugs Powerbook G4*
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