Dell Promise Pink laptops fight breast cancer
By Nilay Patel 
posted February 7th 2009 8:32PM
posted February 7th 2009 8:32PM
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Notice how there is no blue to fight prostate cancer?
They only have laptops that CAUSE prostate cancer.
Yeah, then I might consider buying it....
They need to rethink the colors so that I would buy it as a laptop...
Like: how about black as the breast cancer color? That seems happy to me!
Heh jokes aside, I might buy it if it had a discrete red ribbon logo thing on it, but certainly not pink. Sorry, my donations go straight to charity instead of though a laptop.
And what happened to [RED]? I did like those bright red things...
XPS rulez!
"rulez" went out of style somewhere in the late 80s.
I'd rather just donate the $5 myself
I'll donate $20 to stop 4 of these Pepto-Bismols from being built!
oh god what an ugly shade of pink. their other pink color looks better. dell should just make that one the breast cancer one, just like how they made the red one exclusive to product red.
Too bad they can't prevent those NVIDIA cards from messing up a completely useful computer...
seriously if they are going to keep selling this model (and supporting it by replacing motherboards for who knows how long) wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to swap the 8400 with a 9400 or 9300?
I just had my motherboard replaced AGAIN last friday. Fucking Nvidia cards. This is like the 11th time (i've lost count) that dell has had to replace a part in my m1330 or give me a brand new computer all together. The CSR told me 1 more and i get another new one. Woot! They probably think i'm some kind of destructive computer user by now :p.
Seriously? $5?
For a laptop that is at least $500, moving up to the thousands and beyond, you'd think Dell could un-stinge and donate a little more than $5. You know how much better they would sound if they were committed to donating $1,000,000? And what more would it take? They could even charge $10 more for the laptop and advertise that it is going to the cause, and put up the other $10 themselves. I'm sure Dell would have a lot of people signing on for a deal which basically tells consumers to put up $10 and Dell will match it with another $10 to fight cancer.
this should put it into perspective
DELL = CORPORATION
Yes, I understand that the bottom line is the most important thing.
However, there is something to be said for Corporate Social Responsibility, and other tech corporations are currently kicking Dell's butt in terms of environmental friendliness, so Dell could use some good CSR here and there. Not to mention the fact that they would be doing a good thing and even the big corporate CEOs have hearts.
I was thinking of the same thing..
How much does the option for a different color cost? I remember it being something between $10 and $30 on dell.com
A measly $5 out of that??
And they're expecting to sell 50,000 of them??
I noticed this the other day... $5 donation for a $30 option. I'll just get black and send a $30 check somewhere. I hate how corporations feel that they can pat themselves on the back for doing something like this. I won't feel good about this type of thing until they donate the entire amount of cost increase for the option - or at least somewhere in the ballpark. This actually makes me less likely to buy from Dell.
Or they could just keep doing what they've been doing.... charging $30 for the color and keeping all of it.
Keep it in perspective. It's only $5, but it's $5 more than they were giving a week ago.
Apparently you are not familiar with the microscopic margins on laptops and desktops.
apple donates a small amount also, I believe $2 off of every ipod purchase to (red). They do these charity things so that people will think they actually care, and buy more of their products.
@Brian,
I thought the whole point of the extra cost of the (red) iPod was that Apple donated that money to (red), not just $2. If that is true, I would be pretty annoyed, considering different colors on dell laptops always cost more, but different iPod colors cost the same, except the (red).
It probably only costs them about $7 to make, so why not donate a reasonable amount?
$100 maybe?
i hate that shade of pink, reminds me of the "pink" razr every girl used to have.
thats more magenta than anything
Exactly. I think we should campaign for the color to be changed to black!
But ya, I'm sticking to [RED] when it comes to tiny donations from my electronics...
God that thing is fluorescent.
Just like my pubes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111111111
Your pubes must have cancer...
Haha the only area where pedobear wont be fuzzy....
Why can't they just release normal colored ones and say those too will donate to cancer...
You know, given the choice, I'd get a normal colored one, my masculinity is more important than a tiny contribution on breast cancer. If I want do donate, I'd do the Komen walk thing or donate directly. I don't want the Dell middleman.
Can't you tell? they want you to feel awkward or feel that only women (I'm being sarcastic here) can understand the suffering that people have when they have breast cancer. Therefore only women should donate! Right?
Although I completely see where you are coming from, where you would rather donate the money directly than do it through Dell, a good number of people like to display their beliefs, whether it is political, religious, or a mix of both. Think about all of the people who have pro-life and pro-choice bumper stickers, or all of those livestrong bracelets (and the thousands of variants) from a couple of years ago. Even though you can directly donate to these different groups, people like to get something that displays their beliefs. In comes (red) memorabilia, and now bright pink dells.
I think it would be a better choice for there to be a bright pink ribbon (or any color given a cause you support) on the computer, rather than have a bright pink laptop, that deters most straight males. However, I think if it gets money to a good cause, I cannot complain too much, but their could be a better implementation to attract more people.
Yeah I have to agree with you Haikibutsu. Wouldn't there donation pool grow significantly if their entire line, regardless of color, would donate the money to the cause? Seems kind of silly. Then again, very rarely does a purchase to make a donation sway me since most are too insignificant (like this one) to factor into the purchase decision. As far as I'm concerned, showing off that you donated to a cause is rather shallow. It's like trying to advertise how good of a person you are. It makes it seem like, for that person, supporting the cause isn't satisfying unless everybody knows about it.
The fight against the breast cancer is like the fight against the terrorism :we are spending billion on it and the situation has changed from bad to worst.
I don't know if that's your opinion, or if you have facts somewhere to back that up, but my wife recently survived breast-cancer. I can assure you that while there is no cure yet, there have been HUGE leaps towards detection and treatment thanks to all those dollars.
@Magallanes,
They have made tremendous strides towards finding a cure along with improvements in chemo therapy and radiation. There are more survivors of breast cancer today than 10 years ago. Considering 1/8 women will most likely get breast cancer, it is unbelievable how important the cause is.
With that in mind, I think their needs to be better implementations on how to display one's support for the cause.
A computer is a great source for carcinogens, so yes the situation is getting worse.
How about they do that with all their Ubuntu models? That way not only do you fight two cancers at once, you pay the same amount of money and Dell comes out even!
I LIKE that shade of pink.
indeed ugly
I'm with that comment about there being no purple or blue for prostate cancer. It seems that only women's issues get any play in the media.
Its disgusting that breast cancer gets so much more funding from the government and from society (about $8 for ever $1 prostate cancer gets) while breast cancer and prostate cancer kill about the same number of women and men.
Really, the UK's policy that breast cancer screening is paid for while prostate cancer screening (less expensive) isn't sums it up.
I get really tired of everything pink. I had cancer when I was 25 (27 now), and it seriously disturbs me that this one form of the disease gets all the attention. I understand it is horrible, believe me. I just feel that all these companies that try to be trendy by being pink should share the wealth.
Can I get one that donates to something actually useful? Like finding the cure for leprosy or raising Velcro awareness?
I would buy a laptop with the company donating money to charities and foundations given the same price as non-donation ones because at least it makes me feel good. However, having a laptop that is in a colour I like is worth more than $5 to me.
So basically, I'd buy it if I could get it in black... :P
Geez, the XPS 1330 is still around?
Dell's plastic piece of crap, now in pink!
misogyny itt
gfy
pink is the new black
I am really annoyed at these kinds of Charity... if you can call it that. Why do they have to wait until I buy something before donating? It's not really a donation then, it's just another form of advertisement to make money! If they wanted to Donate, then DONATE! But don't say you'll only do it if people spend money. Because then it's not DELL Donating, it's THE CONSUMER DONATING!!!!
They get the Glory, the tax deductions, and they make sales! What a SCAM!
wow a whole $5 when they probably overprice the laptop to make a profit from you anyways and all they can give is 5
I honestly think some of you could ruin an orgasm. Seriously, get over yourselves already. This is a good thing Dell is doing even if the amount donated, method of securing the donations, etc don't meet your individual expectation for what a charitable donation should be. At the end of the day, it's $250k to a good cause. Really, some of you just aren't happy unless you're finding something to bitch about.
Screw breast cancer. I'm sorry, but I'm tired of seeing all this pink crap. I don't even like pink. I purposely don't buy things that support breast cancer because too many things support it. I hate those people who dye their dogs hair pink, I hate those weird people (like the lady in Edison, NJ) who has a whole pink house, with pink car, pink flamingos, pink everything inside.
If I ever make a product I'm going to donate portions of the proceeds to help LUPUS victims. Lupus was my favorite character on Peanuts cartoon.