Dell's leaked E6400 ATG for mustachioed, overall types (just not Mario)
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Mar 24th 2008 6:06AM
posted Mar 24th 2008 6:06AM
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When I read that first line, I thought you were gonna do another one of these:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/12/iriver-s10-now-with-bluetooth/
Better luck next time.
Can't...stop....feelings....of...console.....likeness...Must...eject....battery...and....blow....on....it...to...boot
Why would Mario need a laptop while going around pipes fighting Bowser?
Last I checked, Mario didn't really have a strategy that demanded the computing power of a Dell to save Peach.
Maybe if he did, he wouldn't keep losing Peach to a dumb fat lizard and his army of flying turtles.
Guess you don't watch 24. All threats (even Bowser) can be stopped with computers these days. Just open a socket and use your parallel processor to restore the contents of the broken flash chip and decrypt the remaining file fragments to find the location of the guy who can be interrogated to reveal the location of Bowsers's castles secret back door.
if only mario had a gravely voice and a fugly chick that works computers.
Eh... is this really enough to give Panasonic a run for its money?
If Dell pre-installs its classic set of crapware on this I'll still go Panasonic.
Anytime you buy a PC with an OS preinstalled you should be formatting it the second it comes in the door and reinstalling. Nothing is as clean as an OS straight off the CD/DVD.
Jamar,
First off if you don't like the crapware reinstall the OS. Secondly Dell isn't doing this to go after Panasonic. Rugged laptops are a niche market at best. This is simply to give corp accounts the option of getting a rugged Dell if they need to deploy one in the field. If a company has a Dell corp account and their entire fleet of laptops are Dell they generally don't want to place a one off in their environment just for ruggedness.
And why complain? Dell DOES provide you with discs for performing a clean install of the OS.
Eh... been spoiled by Panasonic, I guess, then. I like being able to use my computer out of the box. Turn it on and go. 1 day not wasted (why no, I'm not so good with OS reinstallations).
And I hardly think that Panasonic is in a niche market. They're certainly not in the same category as HP/Toshiba/etc, but they're not unique either. I'd consider my Let's Note (JP model, called a Toughbook in the States) CF-T5 on par with some upper-end Sony laptops.
Standard dell crapware? when i got my d630 6months ago it only had Google desktop search on it. which takes all of ten seconds to remove.
Bowser: Dude, you're getting a DELL!
Mario: Noooooooooo!
Wait, that's a laptop? At first glance, I thought it was a paper shredder.
I thought it was a cutting board.
Looks like an electric sandwich maker or a grill to me.
Altitude resistant?? What a joke! I spent a month in a town 3500M above sea level, and the Internet cafes were working just fine with ratty, 10yr old computers.