Studio XPS 16 OLED concept laptop hands-on
By Ross Miller 
posted January 8th 2010 5:20PM
posted January 8th 2010 5:20PM
posted January 8th 2010 5:20PM
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oled is the future
@007
Not if the manufacturing process doesn't get easier and cheaper. Currently manufacturing large OLED screens is not efficient nor is it cheap. This is the reason why LCD is so rampant these days, several displays can be made at once on a single sheet of glass and the process is quick and cheap now.
OLED has to be competitive now or another display technology could come in and steal it's limelight away and be skipped completely. Kind of how we went from CRT/Projection to LCD and Plasma was merely a blip on the map, OLED could be another blip.
I like OLED, but unless they can make it readily available to the masses at a halfway decent cost and offer sizes relative to their LCD counterparts I really don't see this technology breaking away from small handheld devices where costs can be controlled a little more.
@7egend Ahh Plasma was never a blip on the map. In fact, the Pioneer Kuro Elite displays are still the best around right now.
@7egend Yeah I remember when LCDs swept the globe in a week.
@Canizorro No, Sony BVM CRT monitors are still the best.
@007 Dell better get on your OLED bandwagon pretty quick because Mirasol and Pixel Qi displays are already moving toward market! Dell's got a pretty short window do capitalize on it, if it does prove economically viable. My OLED MP3 player is a couple years old now and I'm still waiting for someone to put out the laptop.
Excuse me while i head to the restroom...to clean myself off
man, the RGBLED screen option was already the best of any laptop already, Dell definitely could spark the interest of more graphics professionals with this
@JeremyBenthem
yeah the screen is definitely not where the improvement should be made. It's comforting to see that oled is here for near-future laptops, though.
@JeremyBenthem
I agree, the RGBled screen is pure awesomness but the thing that people need to know is that the core i7 studio xps 16 has serious throttling issues with the current BIOS and the 90w power adapter it ships with
With charging the battery and using the CPU and GPU at full power, your performance reduction can be as bad as half of the CPU power
@JeremyBenthem yea im using one with the RGBLED screen right now, and i can confirm that it is an amazing piece of work, so the oled screen must be insane.
I think the dust on the machine is kinda embarrassing.
@technotechie
that's what the "do not touch" sign is for
@technotechie I heard if you can't see the dust it doesn't exist--like wind. Therefore white laptops don't attract dust.
@n49o7
To rub it in your face that you can't touch it, even though you'd have a legit reason?
drool. all i can do right now
Ooo... pretty!
Dell should put this into Adamo series. It will be expensive, but we need this type of low volume flagship technology in such devices. It wouldn't make them much money, but would attract attention. It would be the Veyron of PCs!
It would probably be like $5000.
Looks like a nice screen
too bad it'll probably have the same throttling problems as the current 1645
What is up with Dell and their keyboard layouts? Now they are back to what my 6-year old Dell Inspiron had with PgUp/Dn/End etc vertically on the right.. and they are STILL wasting the 2" on the left/right of the keyboard.
@gregmac
That's the price you pay for having quality speakers.
@gregmac Its a full size keyboard. What more do you want?
Wait...so why are we critiquing the wrist panel in an article a new screen?
Oh right, Dell made it not Apple.
Wow! That screen looks 10x times better than the screen I'm viewing it on!
This is pretty cool. I know that anandtech was already thrilled with the good color range and representation of the XPS models but does anyone know if the consumer monitor calibration equipment works well with Glossy screens? How about the LED or OLED ones?
If monitor calibration isn't possible yet, these screens won't be picked up by photo shops (hah) first either...
Now the only thing to do is release it and make a unibody version of it...much like the hp envy's
Before you try to flame... I'm currently using my own xps studio 16 in piano black XD
This shit is awsome next to a macbook
The rest of the laptop is nothing new, why are you taking pictures of it?
This makes the MBP's screen look like $ h i t!
i'll buy the unit on display, should be cheaper
0.004ms? Holy shit. I mean, I know OLEDs are fantastic for being thin, using less energy, and having both unbelievable contrast and color depth, but I didn't know they also allow for such incredible response times. Damn. If they could some how get this baby out and in production before August I might get me one to go off to college, lol.
@kenny goo
Even if ti does, it'll probably cost as much as your entire year's college tuition.
About last year I was still hoping OLED laptops would exist by summer, it looks like theres a 0% chance of that happening now.
Arrandale and SSDs will have to suffice.
@fel
You won't be seeing widespread OLED screens until 2013/2014 and beyond time frame.
$5000 and you still have to add bluetooth and wifi N before checkout. its a dell!
@MVMNT
Trackpad is made for ewoks, I like the large pads on Macbooks is the one thing I jealous for Mac compared to my PC.
@MVMNT The RGB LED on the current XPS 16 is already pretty special. Probably the best color gamut amongst laptops today.
I have this laptop and it's so painful to keep it looking clean, especially the speaker grills.
@Raffi256 LMFAO even with the OLED?
if not you have the RBGLED?
would be cooler if they had a backlit keyboard. i'm recently bought a G11 for my home pc and after using it for a while my next laptop has to be backlit.
@deancollins um, the studio xps 16 does have a standard backlit keyboard
@jeifei72 cool thanks, didn't see it on in the photos.
@deancollins you need to use the keyboard for the back light to light up, it saves battery life. the do not touch signs would make that difficult.
Wow, the only difference between this one and my XPS 16 is the awesome OLED screen. (Mine even shows dust. :-P)
Why aren't they using an AMOLED display? AMOLEDs are supposed to cost less and enable the creation of larger screens.
@dcfvgb Uh, AMOLED=Active Matrix OLED, hello?
Will this OLED screen be day-light readable? Because frankly until laptop manufacturers start including day-light readable screen as standard, the laptop or netbook will never live up to their potential as portable devices.
@aikiwolfie
did u just come from 1998?
Since it is still prototype model,better for dell to redesign the dell studio xps 16 keyboard layout with integrated numeric keypad and move the speaker above the multimedia control also 4 usb port.For better connectivity and typing comfort.Change the keyboard layout and launch it with the new keyboard layout.Need your support.=)