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For those of you dual monitor-laptop users, the detachable keyboard lets you chose which monitor you want to position yourself in front of, which is great too.]]>May 10th 2006 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/May 10th 2006 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/May 10th 2006 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/
Actually these concepts look sharper than any Alienware computer ever.]]>May 10th 2006 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/May 10th 2006 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/May 10th 2006 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/May 10th 2006 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/]]>May 10th 2006 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/May 10th 2006 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/
I would buy the Mobile Entertainment Concept in a heartbeat.]]>May 10th 2006 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/May 10th 2006 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/
Bought an XPS laptop a couple years ago. Christ was that ever a mistake.]]>May 10th 2006 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/
Apple doesn't make gaming machines. Shut up.]]>May 10th 2006 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/May 10th 2006 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/
sorry about misspellings in advanced,
DS]]>May 10th 2006 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/
Any one who uses a laptop for their only computer would recognize what a great design the media center is with the handle/hinge. Puts the screen up where it belongs and leaves the keyboard down within good reach. A removable keyboard is awesome. Laptops are too cram packed to use all the time. They are great for on the move computing with the machine on your lap. They are terrible for long periods of time. This computer looks like the usability of a full size computer with great portability. Hmmm. Sounds like just what a gamer would use for work, then grab and go for the evenings lan party fragfest.]]>May 10th 2006 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/I hope you can upgrade it to quad stabilizing fins

---DS
Running XP does not make a PC (or a Mac, which is practically a white PC running OSX after the intel switch) a gaming machine. Macs can be great home computers but none of the them have high end graphic cards. That is why they are not gaming machines. Also MacBookPro has already overheating issues even with its low performance graphic card, it may look good but if you put the graphic card in Dell's laptop in MacBookPro it would melt... It is not like Honda vs. Maserati it is more like Hummer vs. Maserati on an outdoor track. ]]>May 10th 2006 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/May 10th 2006 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/
Is this a bit scathing? Sure is. The 1710 was a great hit, but how many quarters are you going to apologize for your desktops, before you learn that what the public wants isn't something you can just "take your best shot on". Why use an ATI gpu when you are selling literally tons of notebooks that use the Nvidia gpu's and they are getting rave reviews? Because you think you'd like to experiment? Did you bother to check a few market polls before making that choice? How many quarters of P4's not selling, and limited Conroe (it won't exactly be available by the millions at launch) before you think maybe it might be a good idea to at least OFFER an AMD desktop.

The key to a great retailer is that you offer an assortment of products and you listen to what the market deems desireable. Failing to keep the pulse of the market leads to failure. Dreaming that every machine you build will "invent its own market" is arrogant and reaps the joyous rewards of apologizing to investors why yet again you can't produce results.

While I thankfully got out of Dell a long time ago, it should be a big wake up call to stockholders. These folks little to no idea what they should do next. And what the market has clamored for them to do, they are completely unable to accomplish. 20 years from now you'll read about Dell like you read about AT&T, and think "how the mighty have fallen".

I just don't think they get it, plain and simple.
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The laptop/media center looks silly-- the black is too shiny, the screen's bezel is way too thick, you'll kill the screen on the optical drive cover, and from the width of the keyboard, it looks like it weighs a lot. The offset trackpad where the inverted-T should be looks like bad ergonomics.


They're sure thinking different, though...;P]]>May 10th 2006 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/And Dell gets two thumbs up for making some awesome machinery.]]>May 11th 2006 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/dell-shows-images-of-next-gen-gaming-boxes/
You're obviously not a designer, you might have some clue if you did. Gaming machines appeal to a particular demographic and market. While I appreciate minimalism, making it a plain white box is just not going to cut it.

I love how everyone who owns a Mac immediately becomes an expert on design. It's really funny to read these threads, just because you know there will be one of these losers.

"21. The tower's rounded bottom edge looks unstable, and the "stabilizing fin" proves that it is dumb--"

WTF are you talking about? Are you 5? You have absolutely no sense of engineering do you?

What's with some of you people? You sound like a bunch of girls, making fun of some other chick's dress. Sissys.]]>May 11th 2006 2:24PM