Leaked Dell laptop brings the sexy
By Ryan Block 
posted January 14th 2008 4:11PM
posted January 14th 2008 4:11PM
posted January 14th 2008 4:11PM
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That looks awfully MacBook Pro like.
This has two buttons over the touchpad and a touchpad that is smaller, plus the MacBook Pro doesnt come in black. Not to mention that chrome trim around the edge which makes the sides look flat, instead of the complete round-ness of the MacBook Pro around all edges.
Night and day difference. Sony's look more like Apple laptops, or is that the other way around?
OH NO YOU DI-IN'T!
...I... I'm sorry...
Why, because it's a thin laptop?
Um, if you mean it has a keyboard, integrated webcam, and a fold-down screen, then yeah. Otherwise, not sure how you can say this looks like a Macbook. And I'm an Apple fanboy.
Nice work, Dell. If only you'd realized that spending a little bit of money on nice designs can help move hardware a little sooner. Maybe you wouldn't be worth only a third of Apple now (see? told you I'm a fanboy).
Wow, easy there, Apple haters. I thought it looked like a Macbook Pro because it is a laptop, and Apple invented laptops, and computing for that matter.
Except boxy, bigger, and uglier. Seriously, this doesn't look that great. Maybe it's just the angle showing off it's chunkiness.
You forgot to mention that Apple invented black and large icons on touch sensitive devices.
Thanks for reminding everyone about the color black invention. So true.
Along the same vein, didn't Al Gore heavily rely on input from Steve Jobs to create the internet?
steve jobs invented al gore
steve jobs invented al gore
@trevor
God I'm so sick of this annoying BS floating around. Go research what Al Gore actually had to do with the public internet before you post FUD. Stop being a fucking sheep and get a clue.
@Sam Winter
Get a sense of humor. It was a joke to go along with the troll saying Apple invented everything.
I actually thought of Macbook Pro because of where the speakers are placed... Other than that... Pretty nice design.
Why the hell is Sam Highly Ranked? Since when do people get voted up for being stupid. Rank his ass down! "Stop being a fucking sheep and get a clue." I dunno, man, I'd say the sheep was the one who brain wasn't good enough to get the joke...
Is this another rebranded ODM? (read: Sager)
Could this possibly be the 16" laptop that was rumored before?
*Throws out MacBook Pro 17"*
It does look a bit wider than a 15.4. This looks like a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Well the rumored 16" laptop actually was known to have a 16:9 ratio screen and dubbed as a multimedia machine. I really think that this is what it is.
Now THAT is sexy.
OS aside, of course...
..but Dell's working on that.
www.dell.com/linux
Please people, let's not get started calling our THIN hardware sexy now. Look what it has done to all those pretty curvy women. We don't need anorexic laptops. We need laptops with nice personalities. It's about what's inside that counts!
@ Sander de Regt
Well said... I couldn't stop laughing at the thought of a laptop with an identity complex.
Wow, I want NOW!
I can't wait to hear the price on this one, are we going to pay Mac money or not?
@ Ryan.
are you from Baltimore?
And where does it put the sexy after it brings it? Looks like it left it outside in the car. Or maybe lost it on the road on the way here.
Pitty it wont run OSX native.
That's Apple's fault, not Dell's.
Forget Macbook Air or 3G iPhone, give me OS X for PC, and I'll be happy and Apple will make lots of money
No. Apple will *lose* lots of money. If you can buy any PC to run OS X on, who's going to buy Macs any more? And what is Apple? That's right, Apple is a *hardware company*. They make money by selling hardware, not software. Licensing OS X to run on any PC is instant fail.
Apple should have been split into two companies by the US government. Locking software to hardware via TPM is unconscionable. Using the DMCA for the purpose of preserving a business model is specifically, according to its signers, evil, and constitutes abuse of said law.
But it's all good in the end. Apple will pay for their incompetence-- see, they could have had the whole OS market. Now Linux has caught up to them and surpassed them. In five months, Ubuntu Hardy will be released and Dell will have deployed it on half of their consumer level machines, according to their stated intent.
OSx86 begs to differ. It will definitely run OS X native.
@ Ethana
That makes absolutely no sense. Thanks for the comedic posting.
My guess is since it's made by Dell it's still gonna suck balls no matter how good it looks.
Funny if this comes out before tomorrow as I hear Steve say....Apple Macbook Air/Lite is the thinnest laptop at 0.8 inches....
Someone from the stands says "Nope! Dell's got the 0.78 inch! Sorry Kiddo....back to formula."
Very nice. I'd buy more Dell if it looked like that.
Indeed. Now finish this off correctly Dell and make sure it is light.
On an unrelated note, do people still really piss and moan about Vista?
Mac fanboys still piss and moan about it. I've been using it since release, and I don't see how people say XP is better.
is 'bout time! to hire a real designer for their products.
Finally, their purchase of Alienware will pay off...
Yeah because Alienware is known for it's well designed thin and light notebooks.
WANT!
Like...now. Or better, yesterday!
I am a Mac guy but I have to use a Dell at work. I would not dread using my Dell if it was more like this.
this does look like a macbook. it is just silly to deny that the form factor is very similar.
Agreed. Smart man this Kyle Fellow.
nah, the hinge is totally different.
Yeah, it has a screen and a keyboard. Ripoff!!!!!
If it's new, then why is it running XP? And don't tell me cause vista blows, we all know it does. But it would make sense to advertise a NEW laptop with a NEW operating system