9 comments

Yuck. Looks disgusting!

JCK, on June 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

What do they plan to call this line? The InspironXPSGLX-83589XXXL? If there’s one thing that irks me about PC marketing is that they never think of the consumer’s experience (For example, I doubt many consumers could even think of the name of their PC model).

Haven’t they tried selling cases in different colors recently? I guess they keep forgetting that color is just one element of overall design.

As for the dock feature, I’m not surprised. It only took them like 7 years to get it.

C Rolls, on June 26th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

can’t polish a turd.

different computers, on June 26th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Dell is calling the line “Studio” and they come in 15″ and 17″ flavors.

Lonnie Lazar, on June 26th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Lonnie:

Thanks for blogging about it. We’ve been shipping colors on Consumer laptops for about a year. We’re adding more color options with the Studio Line.

The dock.. no question it was a good idea. Kudos to Apple for that.

Thanks,

Lionel Menchaca
http://www.direct2dell.com

Lionel Menchaca, on June 26th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

It looks like someone at Dell saw RocketDock (a free software program) and is using a similar idea for their computers. I am a Mac, but whenever I have to setup a PC, I usually include RocketDock. It makes things more intuitive (like a Mac).

Fr. Ignatius, on June 26th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

already done: http://rocketdock.com/

free download of the “best software ever written” apparently.

mlc, on June 26th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Yeah - I’m gonna go with the folks who see the uncanny parallel between this and RocketDock. Frankly, since RocketDock is free, its likely that Dell just snagged a copy and started adding it to its OEM images.

phoenix, on June 27th, 2008 at 8:34 am

Actually, it’s similar to Stardock’s Objectdock (which is free), because Stardock developed the software for Dell.

bob, on June 30th, 2008 at 1:26 am