Michael Dell and Vostro Line of products...

[bourbon_sensei]

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Yesturday DELL announced its launch of its new line of desktops, notebooks and peripherals labeled – Vostro™ –. These products are geared mainly toward the Small Business market. These products apparently are supposed to be shipped with no trial ware software as to improve efficiency in the business world. As technicians, I'm sure most of us have bought a DELL computer and had to reinstall windows from the ground up, or disable all of those DELL annoying add-ons....this hopefully would be a thing of the past.

DELL Vostro™ Notebook and Desktop specifications. (http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoffice/en/2007/2007_07_10_rr_002?c=us&l=en&s=corp)


At a conference at the launch in New York City, DELL CEO Michael Dell spoke on his views of the add-ons associated with most if not all DELL products "trial-ware" or what he refers to it as "crap-ware (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=547)" and how the new line of products would help curb that stigma.

More in this ZDnet article. (http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5624&tag=nl.e622)

[LARUTO]

you know i was just about to make a thread about these things? we ordered an XPS on work yesterday, well we ordered it b4 but got it yesterday. The XPS was the 1210 model, with the 12 inch screen. My laptop being ordered next and i was beginning to thin kthat the XPS was a bit too small, went to Dell's website and saw this Vostro, here is what i put together.
I like how it looks, much more impressive than what we got with the XPS and for a similar price. any other thoughts?

It was the Vostro 1500

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7100 (1.8GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Display with TrueLife™
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM
120G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
8X CD/DVD Burner w/ double-layer DVD+R write capability
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8600M GT
Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Wi-Fi Mini Card
High Definition Audio 2.0
Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate)
Integrated 2.0 mega pixel Web Camera
85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.08
MS Works 8.5-Eng: Basic Spreadsheet, Word Processing & Calendar Program
McAfee SecurityCenter with VirusScan, Firewall, Spyware Removal, 30-days
Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
DELL E178FP 17 Inch Flat Panel Monitor <TD class=gridCellAlt width="15%" align="right">$1,663.00

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[bourbon_sensei]

These laptops/ desktops could be promising...

Laruto did you see the dell systems that were being shipped with the ubutu OS? I can't understand how a system being shipped with a open source OS is more expensive that one being shipped with a +++price OS from Microsoft.

[LARUTO]

I think Dell may have some kind of 'obligation' towards microsoft, that's the only reason i can of to justify having a machine with a free OS being more expensive for one with a $200 OS.

I'm awaiting a quote from a Dell rep on the Vostro machine for possible discounts, if all is good i ordering this instead of the XPS

[bourbon_sensei]

Well it is good specs....I'll prob be migrating end of the year early next year so, i'm waiting to see how vista develops and also how this new line develops. I'm sure i'll get an XP machine though....I dislike Vista for now. But then again its a fairly new OS so....yea we'll see.

Let us know the quote u get.

[shadow_hitokiri]

Sigh i buy a e1705 a few weeks ago and they decide to do this....whyyyyyyyy

[soldier]

heard they releasing a new xps line when d 8800m come out?

[prozecks]

that xps line is for desktops???