Dell Studio One 19 reviewed, deemed totally sufficient but not awesome
By Laura June 
posted May 19th 2009 12:02PM
posted May 19th 2009 12:02PM
posted May 19th 2009 12:02PM
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No theres no...?
*not
Maybe he meant after his lunch break.
Laura's a man?!
I wish they'd stop using "after the break" - it's fucking stupid.
This thing could bend over backwards whilst sexually gratifying the owner but it isn't an iMac, so it will never be awesome in you-know-who's eyes.
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Yep, especially since the ads are after the article's over.
What ads?
It's actually something I'd consider for my parents, but then again, the touchscreen would go largely unused - getting my mom to use a touchscreen is an endless round of bickering about how it makes the screen dirty and how that just can't be right. Go-go typewriter generation.
Well, on the pictures in the link there are som juicy photos...
On-topic: Looks like a good "all-round" computer for those who are short on budget and still wants design and quality.
My opinion: Perfect for first-timers like children, elder people and so on :P
yeah, dump the touchscreen and its a nice solution for a kitchen computer.
Touch is an option and even if you get a touch, no one forcing you to touch it with dirty fingers :P
or dump the keyboard. I'd rather clean off a touchscreen than never clean a keyboard in my kitchen.
I'm pleased with the progress Dell design is making, but I'd like them to remember that it takes a unix(like) OS to fight one.
How odd, Windows seems to to be holding it's own against other OSes, despite being "DLL hell."
If "20% of the computer buying population is willing to pay twice as much for a machine to NOT have your product on it", then sure, Windows is 'holding it's own'.
Guhh, you know what I mean.
@Dafrety, "Dell hell" doesn't really work any more. They are quite possibly the easiest tech ever to deal with. Got a problem open the chat box type the problem 15minutes later they have you registered for an in house tech to stop by and fix/replace the part.
They even do in house repairs on the weekends.
Templarian, I think he may have been talking about dynamically linked libraries, and my experience with Dell was MISERABLE. I had so many repair return boxes I was using them as furniture until I gave them to my mom to pack other things in.
Where do I find this 20% who are trying to avoid Windows? Macs have about 3% worldwide marketshare and Linux is so small that nobody bothers to count and they just talk in terms of each year being the year of Linux. Meanwhile, Linux got raped on Netbooks by Windows.
Why do things always have to be so black and white? First off, I'm not quite sure where you get your 20% number because as of November of 2008 Windows held 89.62% of the market. Mac had 8.87% and Linux had a whopping 0.83%. That being said, I hardly think everyone that buys a Mac (or a Windows machine) is condemning the other operating systems. If I buy a chocolate cake it doesn't mean that I hate vanilla, it simply means that I like chocolate more. It just so happens that I started out on a Windows (actually DOS) machine and I like the degree of customizing that Windows allows me. I can build my own machines and customize them to my delight.
I have nothing against Macs and I could care less what system other people choose to use. I admire Apple and their elegant designs but I hate their "it's our way or the highway" mentality. I do think they are drastically overpriced as well. That being the case, I'd still love to have a Macbook to sit next to my Windows machines but money, like many things, is finite. As for Linux, get real. The average computer user (Mac or Windows) can hardly figure out how to get a picture onto their machine let alone how to use an operating system like Linux. Linux will forever remain a hobbyist's OS, like it or not.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/18638/
I remember seeing that when I was watching the keynote live on engadget.
I love the degree of customizing that Ubuntu allows me. I always felt constrained by Windows.
Linux is not an OS. Gentoo will forever remain a hobbyist's OS? Okay. Whatever. Slackware will.. fine. I didn't mention the kernel. Why did you?
Oh, that was jakem, sorry. Linux based OSes didn't rock very hard on netbooks because they were used wrong.
I'd take OS X over Linpus or Xandros any day of the week.
@ethana2
What are you talking about? First off, let me quote from http://www.Linux.org..."Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world." So I'm a bit lost when you state that Linux is not an OS. As for Gentoo, what has it got to do with anything? Maybe you just sneezed while typing and made a mistake? Whatever the case, so what? The market is what it is and whether you like it or not, Linux is at the bottom.
As for your 20% statistic, if you read the story it states that Apple had 20% of the retail laptop market in July and August of last year only in the US. The last I checked laptops were only a part of the total market and the US was only a part of the world economy and July and August are only a part of the total year. Apple sales ARE increasing, which is a good thing. Competition is a good thing and can only help make both Windows and OSX better products. This is proven true by the upcoming release of Windows 7. From all accounts this latest Windows release is an awesome OS.
I'll concede that.
20% of the laptop buying population in the US, sorry.
The people who call Linux an operating system are confusing terms. It is only one part of a modern desktop OS, along with a userland, package manager, X11 implementation, sound server, desktop environment, and many other components.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8&sample=35
Linux is an umbrella term for many different distributions.
The kernel was invented/written by Torvalyds.
As Moblin 2.0 has shown us, Linux is 1000% more customisable than Windows.
Ubuntu stikes a good balance between hobbyism and ease of use, and is the best supported in my eyes.
Without meaning to respark this flame war, Windows is dominant in the market because of aggressive business tactics, and because they assumed (rightfully so) that the average PC user was either an idiot, or an office worker.
There are things i dislike about linux, and there are things i dislike about Windows.
There are however very few things i dislike about OS X...
@Oli D
nice rationalization, but no. windows appears dominant in the market because it IS superior.
customisable, yes, but nevertheless remains inferior. all the time.
Looks very cool, but no robust graphics support is a no-no. Can we hope for an Ion option in the future?
Sure we can hope, guess what?
I'm staying in the hope with you ;)
I would be satisfied if I could get that wireless keyboard/mouse combo separatedly for my actual setup.
Anyone know were I can order it?
not sure if want...
Hmm stylish, expensive, and underpowered......What does that remind me of....
You must be thinking of the Dell Adamo of course.
Cloth screen surround... gross
I want to see this level of power in wii/asus eee box shaped boxes.
It looks like a Star Trek computer!
"Computer on . . . Hello computer?"
Dell has this new invention they made to go with this....its called a keyboard....too bad its patened because i want one....they also invented something called a mouse or something....to bad its patened too....