Dell's ultra-thin LCD concept with DisplayPort going retail?

Remember that super swanky Dell monitor concept we went ga ga over back at January's CES? Yeah, we still find it hard to believe it's a Dell design. Well, it'll apparently be up for sale later in the year. What's more, it features the new VESA approved DisplayPort 1.1 interface which allows Dell to keep the panel depth to a crazy thin 0.5-inches. Although DisplayPort is said to support a resolution 4x that of today's HDTV resolutions, the panel on this pup was only pumping an estimated 1920 x 1200 when we saw it. No specs or price but we expect good things given Dell's past performance in delivering top-notch displays on the cheap.

[Keef @ May 18th 2007 10:41AM]

yeah.... but.... are there even any DP gfx cards.....

[Chuckles McGee @ May 18th 2007 8:04PM]

I'm all for this display port too...but are any cards, even spanking new 8800s with display ports?


It's a very pretty monitor, but I hope they produce a model without the speakers...seems sort of pointless to have two inches of glass border around your monitor to house speakers that most high-end users will never use.

[McGinley @ May 18th 2007 10:47AM]

It looks great,but theres no dell pc's to match the look of it,so its not for me.

[mike @ May 18th 2007 10:51AM]

http://cache.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/imac.jpg

Wow. A Concept. So the tech doesn't exist, but the 'original' design does. Cool.

[mike @ May 18th 2007 11:47AM]

i don't get it. what does an imac have to do with this sweet ass display?

[weg @ May 18th 2007 1:08PM]

Are you kidding? The lampshade on your picture doesn't even come close to this DELL monitor...

[lev polvoi @ May 18th 2007 11:01AM]

WOW that thing is totally awesome!

[Merkidemis @ May 18th 2007 11:06AM]

Curious: What does DisplayPort have to do with screen thickness?

[Dubb @ May 18th 2007 11:19AM]

D-Sub and DVI plugs are very thick, while the new DisplayPort standard is as thin as HDMI plugs. The D-Sub and DVI ports on most monitors take a bit more space, along with the electronics required for each port. By only having a DisplayPort import you can reduce the thickness.

[Dubb @ May 18th 2007 11:20AM]

Import = Imput

[xraycat @ May 18th 2007 11:41AM]

Imput = input

[darkstar @ May 18th 2007 11:27AM]

i cant believe its a dell!
hopefully they work on improving the other designs. their laptops are fugly!

[Joey Geraci @ May 18th 2007 1:21PM]

Uhm, have you looked at the latest XPS 12 in notebook. Not the thinnest notebook in the world, sure, but otherwise, the design is excellent (and it is dirt cheap with my EDU discount)

[Dubb @ May 18th 2007 11:56AM]

Thanks xray :(
Wish I could edit...

[Mystic Alpaca @ May 18th 2007 11:41AM]

"i cant believe its a dell!"

Sounds like a great new slogan

[Aaron @ May 18th 2007 4:22PM]

As long as they have Fabio do the commercials.

[IDK @ May 18th 2007 12:32PM]

the display is a copy of the iMac G4 design

[mike @ May 18th 2007 2:37PM]

O, i had no idea that clear plastic was a apple only design. damn you ziplock!

[L.Rawlins @ May 18th 2007 12:20PM]

Dell monitors far outshine all their other products.

[Rob @ May 18th 2007 12:47PM]

Actually, the iMac looks more like a copy of Sony's "Floating Glass" designs.

[Hilz @ May 18th 2007 12:43PM]

It might have a mac design, but Dell is running with it and its sure to be less then an apple display! It looks beautiful, and so simple! I can't wait to see this in the wild..

[IDK @ May 18th 2007 1:14PM]

which came out after 2002

[Stephan @ May 18th 2007 12:58PM]

I swear I am so sick and tired of the ABC copied Apple, who copied blah blah blah.

Jeez it is like that scene from Swingers (you know the one that rips off Resevoir Dogs) and they make the comment "Everyone Copies everyone else so who gives a F!"

[MaXKiLLz @ May 18th 2007 1:03PM]

Looks like something you'd see in the movie 'Minority Report'

[Moe @ May 18th 2007 1:21PM]

Reminds me of "Children of Men".

[dark star @ May 18th 2007 2:47PM]

yes, i have seen the xps laptop series. they look like cheap bulky plastic boxes. the sony laptop looks much sleeker. dell desktop xps however... looks much nicer to their laptop counterparts.

[Joey Geraci @ May 20th 2007 3:15PM]

I am going to have to respectfully disagree. If you actually see the xps 1210 in person, (which is easy to do at my campus, considering how cheap and powerful they are) you will see that it looks fairly sleek and sexy.

I have to disagree with you on your comparison of Sony and Dell. Have you ever typed on one of the keyboards of those small (SZ series) Sonys? Very thin, cheap feeling keys, and the cheap, fragile feel extends to the rest of the notebook. Yes, they look better online or in print than the Dell XPS's, but in person, the Sony fails to impress. And the prices are really just ridiculous.

I'd rather have a notebook that looks and feels solid and reliable in person, is fantastically cheap (with EDU discounts), and looks rather uninteresting in print (Dell's XPS notebooks), than a notebook that impresses on the spec sheet, and in print and on the web, but looks rather cheap, fragile, and impractical in person, and is much more expensive to boot.

[duncan @ May 18th 2007 1:55PM]

if it looks like that i'll buy one and i'm a huge apple fan. dell's have always had comparable specs to the cinema displays (some specs better, some not as good), but have been too ugly for me to consider.

i have my doubts about dell's ability to go from concept to production though. they strike me as like american car companies. they display fantastic looking show cars; by the time the car emerges from the accounting, engineering, and marketing departments it looks nothing like what got people so excited in the first place.

[HenryJonesJr @ May 18th 2007 2:39PM]

I dunno...I see an awful lot of reflection on that screen.

[sam @ May 18th 2007 3:09PM]

This monitor actually reminds me of the Vista Aero windows.

[Cookie @ May 18th 2007 4:08PM]

That's just way too reflective! It looks cool, but with such a

[Cookie @ May 18th 2007 4:08PM]

That's just way too reflective! It looks cool, but with such a gigantic glare it would be quite useless.

[Jake @ May 18th 2007 4:29PM]

Am I the only one that thinks it is rather ugly?

[Court K. @ May 18th 2007 5:34PM]

If your dumb enough to buy a display that has a glass face, and is shinny.. well

It's not a cool prototype at all, just a really dumb idea

[Abhissekk @ May 18th 2007 6:58PM]

err... that thing isnt even plugged into any computer(you can see the dispay port_, how come its displaying that windows taskbar?

[Daniel @ May 18th 2007 7:19PM]

Looks like somthing i made in school. (But with plexi glass or whatever you call it)

[Chuckles McGee @ May 18th 2007 8:12PM]

Sure the XPS notebooks have a good design, but good design doesn't always equate to good looking. They're less than pretty, and while they have incredible specs that meet demanding needs of some users, their dimensions still put them in the "fugly" category. Dells mainstream Inspiron and Latitude lineups are most definitely fugly. Doesn't make them a bad choice, but they're fugly nevertheless. Samsung and Fujitsu consistently release beautiful systems whose specs can blow all but the XPS away- in a slimmer form factor too.

[Jt @ May 18th 2007 8:31PM]

Wow, Dell certainly isn't famous for good design, but I have to hand it to them this time! This looks like it was designed by Apple!

I love everything about it except for one very unfortunate, MAJOR flaw. The Dell logo.

[kehller @ May 18th 2007 9:17PM]

when will designers realize that putting a glass bezel around a monitor does not make it look "futuristic" or "cool"? honestly, the best monitor design is one that has a really thin bezel that it makes whatever is on the screen seem like its floating.

sony, sell: GET RID OF THE BEZELS!!! and dell, get rid of all that glare. i like to see what i'm working on, not what's happening behind me.

[Dave @ May 19th 2007 3:53AM]

Perfect.

[Mike @ May 19th 2007 8:35AM]

It reminds me of a concept Apple iMac that Adam Benton did some time ago. http://www.silvermac.com/2006/new-imac-design/

[Japala @ May 19th 2007 8:54AM]

http://metku.net/index.html?path=mods/transtft/index_eng

It is so nice to see Dell follows our website ;)

[Ferenan @ May 20th 2007 2:59AM]

I agree that it does not match up Dell.