Very original. Did you come up with that yourself?
But seriously, competition may make us all better off, but Dell and their kludgy spam infested dreck make the world worse. The same spam that a) they get paid by the software makers to install on YOUR PC. b) they'll offer to not provide for a nominal fee.
So their either charge you, or the software guys. Either way, Michael Dell was asked about the future of the company, the direction, the new technology, new markets... all he could come up with was to start bragging about *cough 7% profit margins, or some such drivel.
I agree. This looks great -- it's what I was hoping the "ultralight" Macbook would be, until it turned out to be 'premium small' rather than 'stripped down and cheap small'.
Something to mess around with, websurf from the couch while watching TV, etc. I think there's a huge market for something like this, as long as it's well-executed. Cheap and middling performance is okay, huge corners cut is not.
Unfortunately I'm just not willing to deal with Windows more than I have to, but perhaps it's time to see what the latest and slickest Linux distros are. Something lightweight, pretty, and fast fast fast. Hard to believe I haven't run a Linux desktop in over 5 years now, after doing it for 8. It would be interesting to see how things have changed (or haven't).
eh, preloaded programs mean that computers are cheaper. If they took $50 the price, they could load as much crap on my computer as they wanted. Not that hard to get rid of it...
MacBook Nano? If Apple was going to make an ultra-portable, don't you think they would have done it by now? They had a shot to make an ultra-portable and they made the Air instead, and it will probably be a few years before they put out anything that will cannibalize Air sales.
The funny thing is that these are the first "minis" that actually look decent and appealing (visually) to me.
For all the climaxing Engadget does over the EEE w/e the actual laptop looks fugly in my opinion. Plus I don't understand why exactly this is such a huge trend and why people want such small laptops to begin with. It would be hard to see and type on such a small thing for me.
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keep em coming... competition makes this world better...
Agreed.
Say goodbye, little guys. The Dell hath arrived!
Very original. Did you come up with that yourself?
But seriously, competition may make us all better off, but Dell and their kludgy spam infested dreck make the world worse. The same spam that
a) they get paid by the software makers to install on YOUR PC.
b) they'll offer to not provide for a nominal fee.
So their either charge you, or the software guys. Either way, Michael Dell was asked about the future of the company, the direction, the new technology, new markets... all he could come up with was to start bragging about *cough 7% profit margins, or some such drivel.
I don't know about you mike, but I think a discount on my computer is worth the 15 minutes spent uninstalling crapware.
I agree. This looks great -- it's what I was hoping the "ultralight" Macbook would be, until it turned out to be 'premium small' rather than 'stripped down and cheap small'.
Something to mess around with, websurf from the couch while watching TV, etc. I think there's a huge market for something like this, as long as it's well-executed. Cheap and middling performance is okay, huge corners cut is not.
Unfortunately I'm just not willing to deal with Windows more than I have to, but perhaps it's time to see what the latest and slickest Linux distros are. Something lightweight, pretty, and fast fast fast. Hard to believe I haven't run a Linux desktop in over 5 years now, after doing it for 8. It would be interesting to see how things have changed (or haven't).
This is why you wipe out your machine when you get it, then you load your OS yourself.
@mike
eh, preloaded programs mean that computers are cheaper. If they took $50 the price, they could load as much crap on my computer as they wanted. Not that hard to get rid of it...
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MacBook Nano? If Apple was going to make an ultra-portable, don't you think they would have done it by now? They had a shot to make an ultra-portable and they made the Air instead, and it will probably be a few years before they put out anything that will cannibalize Air sales.
The funny thing is that these are the first "minis" that actually look decent and appealing (visually) to me.
For all the climaxing Engadget does over the EEE w/e the actual laptop looks fugly in my opinion. Plus I don't understand why exactly this is such a huge trend and why people want such small laptops to begin with. It would be hard to see and type on such a small thing for me.
But to each his own.
Hopefully Dell delivers a decent product.