Dell's putting on the neon lights for its new line of
Inspiron desktops, and as usual, customization's the key here. In addition to two body types -- slim (pictured) and mini tower -- there's eight different colors to choose from: Piano Black, Pure White, True Blue, Formula Red, Tangerine Orange, Spring Green, Plum Purple and
Promise Pink. That last one's tied to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure program, which the company currently donates to for every Promise Pink laptop it sells. Processor options include Intel Celeron, Core 2 Duo, and Core 2 Quad, and AMD Sempron, Athlon X2 and Phenom X4. Other specs include six USB ports (two in front, four in back), up to 8GB RAM on select systems, integrated Intel graphics or ATI Radeon GPUs, and up to 750GB HDD for slims and 1TB for mini-towers. If you're currently in the market for a new PC, you might want to hold off just a tad longer. These new Inspirons are due out this Spring for US and China and start at $299 for the lowest of the low-end models.
posted Mar 30th 2009 12:00PM
HORRIBLE !!! Am I 1st post?
less than your face! The piano black is quite nice, the orange too.
were they sued by *** right movement and forced to have those options?
not bad for $299
"and up to 750GB HDD for slims and 1TB for mini-towers"
Yeah, they'd never get 1TB to fit in that slim case! meh.
Another why bother product from Dell.
Another why bother Post from you ...
Booo Ya
@Jon
I did not ask for a response by you. Thanks.
No one asked for a comment from you so stfu.
@adrian
That's funny because we didn't ask for your comment on this article! Mwahahaha!
Yes, and I know in advance you didn't ask for my reply to your comment and I'm not asking for a reply to my comment so no need to reply. I know your probably busy at work and have lots to do while reading engadget articles.
Maybe because Dell simply offer the best computer deals out there?
They are not overclocker but for the rest, its very good.
These are great. I love the colors. I'd buy each color!!!
Ohh, I forgot to almost comment about the article itself while replying to Adrian. Hmm, no iCore7 option I noticed.
That's because there's not really any Core i7 microATX motherboards out there yet (I'm waiting on one before I build my next system), and the one that is on the market is $200+ just for the mobo. Start adding DDR3 RAM onto that, and you're far, far away from the $299 the super-low-end one starts at.
Your right I do work Wes. Not that it's your business. No doubt you and Shattered Ice are the sort that lounge around at home all day playing your game consoles while claiming benefits. Don't bother to reply I no longer have the time to listen.
Be careful with low profile machines - they are a real bitch to upgrade. The way Dell implements integrated graphics, if you add a video card the on board integrated graphics is disabled, so if you want multi-monitor support you need to add a card that has 2 ports. I thought I was being smart by getting the 530s a year ago, because it takes up about half the space, but I had a hell of a time finding a low-profile video card with two separate ports, and the two that I did find wouldn't work reliably (1 Nvidia, and 1 ATI) because there isn't enough power on the bus and they would brown out and crash. I finally gave up and bought another machine.
I'm sure this machine is fine as is, but if you plan on getting one to upgrade, be warned.
Not to mention, the last slimline Dell I opened up had a 250W "Bestec" power supply. I'm already surprised that thing was able to handle the mild graphics card that shipped with the system, much less any card you might purchase yourself.
That said, it's a good family computer.
That was obvious. I didnt buy any slim case because of that. You should have check before buy.
Terrible
Always good to see some color and individuality in products. I wish more companies offered color options for their products.
(makes me sad that Voodoo use to, but HP made them lose the painting department in the merger).
Who really likes chartreuse? really?
i wanna lick em unless that's lead paint.
I still find it hard to believe the level of resistance people have to computers/gadgets being marketed at various price points. It's called choice and it's good for the consumer. Every iteration Dell puts out (with the exception of the unfortunate adamo) drives the price of computers down (with the exception of the underpowered mini). The limitations of a slim line or a budget computer starting at $279 have already been listed. It's not a be-all, end-all computer. Like an 8gb flash drive audio/video player, it's not for everyone. It's not intended to be.
Is there something fundamental to audio/video players which allows for color, but not desktops? Is there a rule intrinsic to audio/video players which allows for storage/capability differentiation, but is denied to desktops?
Is aluminum, white or black somehow or another essential to the operation of a desktop?
Great to see Dell marching boldly into the 1990s. We need more innovation like this!
Instead of making the entire computer pink, why don't they just put a ribbon graphic on the side, so that respectable men might also purchase it, and so also support cancer research?
Ah, it's just the front panel. Still, there has to be something better than that.
Then buy one of the blue/black/whatever colored ones and donate $20 yourself?
...because there is greater demand for pink computers than for back computers with pink ribbons.
Of course I could also buy the pink computer and then donate separately and now cancer research is getting even more money.
The point is, I'm not trying to figure out how to buy a computer and support cancer research, I'm trying to figure out how Dell could be more effective in their charity.
English Lesson to Engadget:
Wrong: "there's eight different colors to choose from..."
Correct: "there're eight different colors to choose from..."
I wouldn't bother pointing out what some might consider to be such a trivial issue, but I see this mistake from engadget writers far too often. And don't give me any of that "it's only a blog" nonsense. This is a professional operation with a significant budget. Engadtet writers make their livings doing this. They do an excellent job in most other regards, but poor presentation can ruin so much potential.
Engadtet? Just shut up man.
Proof read before you criticize, you spelled Engadget wrong. "Engadtet"
For one, posting comments on Engadget is not my profession. I also would suggest that there is a significant difference between a single typo and a consistent grammar mistake. The grammar error that I pointed out, and that I've seen in so many other articles here, is evidence of a lack of understanding of our language. My typo is evidence that my finger slipped.
I would also defend Jorvay by saying that the commenting system here is pretty lousy. When most of the value of Engadget comes from the community of readers/comments, it really is ridiculous that you can't edit you comments or have deep threads. MacWorld had the same problem. Well, they still might. I don't visit them anymore. I'd love to find a site with community support at least as good as Digg or Slashdot so that I can replace Engadget in my Google Reader.
Well, apparently it is you that has a lack of understanding of the English language, or you would know that "there's" several variations of words as well as word combinations. "There's" being one of them. This is why the English language is considered the hardest language of them all to learn due to all the phonetic sounds and slang words.
The beauty of language is that it is always evolving with new words and combinations of words that may be different but people still understand them. But, honestly, who really cares, I read the article and extracted the information I needed from it without going through it making sure the i's were dotted and the t's are crossed.
P.S. it's "grammatical error"
There's = there is
There're = there are
"There are eight" is proper "there is eight" is no, therefore "there're eight" is correct and "there's eight" is not since the rules don't change if you use a contraction, although it is a common usage since it *sounds* OK..
Personally, I find there're to be awkward and would use "there are". It's only 1 more characters after all.
"There are eight" is proper "there is eight" is no, therefore "there're eight" is correct and "there's eight" is not since the rules don't change if you use a contraction, although it is a common usage since it *sounds* OK." - CriagJ
For a Grammar Nazi you fail. It's, "is not", rather than, "is no".
grammar nazi comments and makes a grammar mistake.
another grammar nazi catches him.
it never ends!
I'm beginning to view "with more color options" as the equivalent of "half-priced brunch special," meaning it's the computer world equivalent of "we have too much fish/meat/etc in the freezer, it's already of poor quality and will be worthless by tomorrow, so let's see if we can pawn it off on unsuspecting brunch-goers with a special deal."
I really don't think that's a valid criticism of the iPod nano. It's a great player.
I know people are to going to be attacking this because it's Dell, but I think those colors look cool. Plus, that's a really good price point.
Pretty.
I don't see these options on their website.
I'm a sucker for a blue computer what can I say...
oh. "These new Inspirons are due out this Spring for US and China and start at $299 for the lowest of the low-end models."
I needs to learn reads better.
Modding goes MAinstream..... blah it was cooler when we still had to cut our own Plexiglass, and PAINT our beige cases, and well use selmade LED lights.... an yea, use a car radiator for our water cooling system... now you can buy modding kits all over... LAME
So much more BADASS to stick a PC in a Coke case!! (just sayin)
slims and mini-towers? no thanks.
Mini tower is really fine, unless you wanna put like 6 more hdd.
A standart tower is just too huge for me. im use to mini-tower now, its light, not too huge and very clean.
I bought a Dell desktop around December last year and it looks just like those pictured? It's black and I think it was the Inspiron 'Studio' mini tower. I got a great deal on the PC - Quad core, 4gb ram, 500gb hdd and a 24" monitor for under $850.
I know people bash Dell a lot but it's been a great computer so far.
I still have my loyal duo2core 3ghz Vostro 200 as my main computer. I will change it soon for a studio xps i7 but in the meantime, the vostro is really working well. and absolutly silentful, which is a first for me!
very awesome, great colors
To hell with Octomom, its OctoDell!
im excited to see these options getting more and more popular, im happy that we have a choice of more than just components these days, size, color, style, along with components? i dont see how you can attack Dell for that, hell right now, its probably my favorite all around company.
I hope they continue to offer the Bamboo Mini desktop, the girlfriend and i want to pick one up for our kitchen when we move in about 1.5 years. its tiny, and would go very well over the counter, and looks nice. it doesnt need to be very powerful because it will be a simple 20in touchscreen/windows 7 computer used mostly for looking up recipes in both programs and on the internet.
I like the idea of having a cool color, but they didn't do the best job at choosing their hues
518, have one, had some problems, but i think I got a bad seed, but its been great. piano black when it came out!