Dell's ultra-thin LCD concept with DisplayPort going retail?
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 18th 2007 10:31AM
posted May 18th 2007 10:31AM
posted May 18th 2007 10:31AM
A look back on popular stories from today in a specific year.
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
yeah.... but.... are there even any DP gfx cards.....
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.
http://cache.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/imac.jpg
Wow. A Concept. So the tech doesn't exist, but the 'original' design does. Cool.
i don't get it. what does an imac have to do with this sweet ass display?
Are you kidding? The lampshade on your picture doesn't even come close to this DELL monitor...
It looks great,but theres no dell pc's to match the look of it,so its not for me.
I agree that it does not match up Dell.
WOW that thing is totally awesome!
Curious: What does DisplayPort have to do with screen thickness?
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.
Import = Imput
Imput = input
i cant believe its a dell!
hopefully they work on improving the other designs. their laptops are fugly!
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)
"i cant believe its a dell!"
Sounds like a great new slogan
As long as they have Fabio do the commercials.
Thanks xray :(
Wish I could edit...
the display is a copy of the iMac G4 design
O, i had no idea that clear plastic was a apple only design. damn you ziplock!
Dell monitors far outshine all their other products.
Actually, the iMac looks more like a copy of Sony's "Floating Glass" designs.
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..
which came out after 2002
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!"
Looks like something you'd see in the movie 'Minority Report'
Reminds me of "Children of Men".
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.
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.
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.
That's just way too reflective! It looks cool, but with such a
That's just way too reflective! It looks cool, but with such a gigantic glare it would be quite useless.
I dunno...I see an awful lot of reflection on that screen.
This monitor actually reminds me of the Vista Aero windows.
Am I the only one that thinks it is rather ugly?
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
Looks like somthing i made in school. (But with plexi glass or whatever you call it)
err... that thing isnt even plugged into any computer(you can see the dispay port_, how come its displaying that windows taskbar?
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.
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.
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.
Perfect.
It reminds me of a concept Apple iMac that Adam Benton did some time ago. http://www.silvermac.com/2006/new-imac-design/
http://metku.net/index.html?path=mods/transtft/index_eng
It is so nice to see Dell follows our website ;)