Dell: Now with 50% more style

Dell has been traditionally known as a maker of cheap, beige machines that corporations buy up in the thousands. They are also, famously, known as the company whose CEO suggested that Apple close down shop and give its investors back their money.

Times have changed, and Dell is trying to compete with Apple in consumer computer market. News.com reports that Dell is attempting to increase the sales of their consumer offerings by creating a high priced, well designed computer. Sound like any other computer company you know of?

The Dell XPS line (that's the XPS 600 pictured above) is aimed squarely at the home market, but if that is Dell's best attempt at making an attractive computer I don't think Apple will have to worry about losing an Industrial Design competition to Dell any time soon.