Dell taking Art House laptops made-to-order in 2009
By Laura June 
posted Nov 13th 2008 4:59PM
posted Nov 13th 2008 4:59PM
Dell's been taking its design new directions for a while now, but it looks the company's war on boring is about to get personal. Ed Boyd, Dell's new Industrial Design Director, told BusinessWeek that Dell also plans on launching customizable computers with "scores of colors, patterns, and textures," and options that will "go far beyond the handful of choices available" from most rivals. We assume he just means the exterior, though that's unclear, so we'll keep our fingers crossed for that hot pink keyboard. There are also no details yet on which models will be up for customization or their pricing, but the other Art House models range from $649 to $800, so our uncle probably won't have to break the bank to unveil his edgy laptop graffiti when these hit sometime next year. Can't hardly wait.
This isn't the best looking one, i personally am not into that African design (like the one pictured), but other covers are much better looking.
looks more like turn of the century cubist expressionism to me. at least, that's what the voice in my head tells me.
For once, I agree with phanbouy!
the art is to trick you to buy this ugly designed machine.
they could just put a pile of cow dung on it and save everybody some trouble.
of course, they'd have to lose the dell logo. nobody likes redundancy.
Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will. I got spare time. But for now, for your customer's sake, for your daughter's sake, ya might wanna think about buying a quality product from me.
Yeah, some of the covers do look really awesome, but I would totally feel like a tool rocking the art-house designed laptop after I get out of college. Sure you can score some points with the hipster crowd now, but try having anyone take you seriously that's past the age of reason.
Dell Mini 12, Vivienne Tam edition
iEye wants one with goatse.cx on it.
I see what you did there. o_0
i thought iEye was Goatse.cx? How pretentious of him.
Are you kidding? What about his pictures comparing his iPhone and his dick? And all the Apple logos? And STEVE JOBS?! How could he not have that there?
But he wouldn't buy it anyway..
No official Apple logo, nor was it touched by Jobs.. so no orgasm :(
'i' think iEye needs one with OSX, Apple Logo, Premium Price, Premium Looks, with Steve holding it at Mac world and no Dell or Windows
I think they've actually done a really good job with the designs, OK nothing will ever be to everyone's taste but I think all the designs are a lot more 'universal' then previous attempts at arty laptops from the likes of HP which were more love it/hate it affairs.
I love HP looks
I hate HP looks
I hate HP looks
Wonder if they can make a Knight Rider Edition Dell Laptop.
And instead of Windows Vista loading screen it would have the red K.I.T.T. sensor.
I'm getting hot and heavy just thinking about it.
I always can't tell if Engadget is being sarcastic or not
looks fabulous!
Well, I suppose if Dell can't make their latops work worth a damn, at least they can make them look pretty. Congratulations to Michael Dell, on a move even more pathetic than I thought this company could get. What's Mr. Dell trying to do, drive stock prices down to 1 cent each so he can buy up all the shares?
Dell laptops are better than fine, I'd go as far as to say their latest models are "very good" - I'm in the market for a new laptop and Dell are the brand I'm going for. Informed decision.
TBH, most of them will have to be made to order. Some of the designs that they come up with are fulgy.
BUT atleast you will have some customisablity.
Dell = Done. Time for Michael Done to shut down the headquarter and return money back to the shareholders.
Mass customization....full speed ahead.
This may be a good time to demand my backlit colemak keyboard...
wasnt this just posted yesterday as well?
N0w can you make t thinner?
Looks Amazing..!!!
Why not just let us upload a picture and have the laptop skinned accordingly? An example would be what that one credit card company is doing. I understand it would be a bit harder because the laptop is not perfectly flat, but the idea could work.
"Can hardly wait." (Good)
"Can't wait." (Good)
"Can't hardly wait." (Bad)
;-)
Ehhh... I've seen better. I got my laptop done at Laptop Design USA. You can send in anything and have it done. I had my old Toshiba done, the whole thing was painted and I have a picture of my family on the lid. My Toshiba is my work computer and even with all the abuse it still looks like it was just done. I think the website was www.laptopdesignusa.com ?
Old News Really.
You can go to www.imageware.no and put anything you want on Sony Ericsson phones. I emailed them and iPhone 3g stuff is coming out next week.
Wow, the laptop is cool.
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