Don't put the Dell logo upside down on the Mini Inspiron

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Don't put the Dell logo upside down on the Mini Inspiron

2310 points posted to Laptops by jervis961 May 29

I didn't notice this last night as I was checking out the pictures of the new Dell Mini but it was pointed out by JamesWeb on Dell's "yourblog" that the Dell logo is upside down.

Please don't leave the logo like that, it looks bad.

jervis961 May 29	I don't want to flood the site with Mini problems so I'll ask here and hope Dell answers. Where are the function keys?
phubert May 29	With the case closed (as it is when you approach the machine BEFORE using it, the logo is NOT "upside down"... and isn't that the POINT, to ORIENT the machine (know which side to open) to the user??? The USER will never see it upside down.
paperpilot May 29	@phubert if you sitting across from somebody with your D6 open, the logo is upside down. Isn't the point of the logo to advertise DELL to non-users?
aaron_h May 29	The logo as you see it here was the Dell standard for years. I always assumed it was because we were customer focused, we wanted our users to see the logo as they were opening it up. However, once our systems started showing up in movies and TV, I think people realized the logo would look better turned the other way. It will be interesting to see which direction the final design will use.
paperpilot May 29	CNN uses notebook machines on air. It used to be the viewer could the brand of computer the anchors were using. Now they have pasted the CNN logo on the tops of the machines so you can't tell who supplied the computers.
aikiwolfie May 29	The logo does look better the other way around. Even better would be a little swivel badge. Then it's always the right way up!
phubert May 29	This is getting silly...
elkar May 29	The logo should be oriented so that, when open, people (or cameras) behind the screen would see it "right-side-up". This is good advertising. I'm sorry, but any user who needs to use the logo as a point of reference to figure out which end ot the computer to open, has no business using a computer in the first place. Is it really that confusing?
winoffice May 29	The Dell logo should be the other way around, not upside down as it is now. Also, the Dell circle should be silver. The rest of the exterior lid should be either black or silver.
aikiwolfie May 29	Nothing wrong with red. Maybe Dell will give you the option to choose?
phubert May 30	I truly dislike red, but would put up with it if I really wanted the device, I suppose. Blue, gray, silver, black, GREEN (DARK green, not kelly pr grass)
bvasiliev May 31	What about making a "mobile" logo for DELL, that will be always readable? Your logo is round. So it will be no problem to let it float in a transperant capsule with a nutral liquid and let the gravity keep it in a proper position...
couldntgetaname Jun 1	Rolls Royce hubcaps are designed to always remain right way up - the Dell logo could utilise the same idea. Or a small secondary e-paper display could be used, which would show a user-selected image while the laptop was closed [to easily identify which of the 42 identical lappies in a meeting room was which] and the Dell logo, right way up, when open. But this really is getting silly now.
aikiwolfie Jun 1	I already said that! The cheek! :op
couldntgetaname Jun 1	I think the RR engineers would disagree that they made a "little swivel badge" :p Another alternative would be to do away with the badge altogether and replace it with a small laser projection system to beam the Dell logo onto the roof like a bat-signal.
aikiwolfie Jun 1	Umm ... the battery in this thing isn't exactly huge.
couldntgetaname Jun 2	There's another ideas thread for the mini in which if would end up just being a battery with some accessories taped to it - no way any sort of reasonable life could be expected with the suggested feature set. I was going for the - philosophy bods jump in with the correction - reductio ad absurdum.
inkslug Jun 18	I'm surprised and slightly embarrassed that so many of you care about a useless piece of corporation promoting eye candy. I'd rather have no logo at all but I know I'm probably in a group of one
jervis961 Jun 18	Actually you are not alone inkslug. But since they won't do that the least they can do is not make the logo look stupid. Can you imagine how many people will walk by and make a comment "pst, your Dell logo is upside down"?
aikiwolfie Jun 18	inkslug it gets worse. Some people on here get very upset if there's no prominently visible logo at all. If the machine does what it's meant to do, I'm happy.
badblood Jun 19	when the lid is closed the logo is the right way up and when it is open it is upside down. Maybe they should make it into a compass so that it always points north. Or maybe they could make so that it always points towards Texas....
phubert Jun 19	:-D I had been thinking of that, too, bb! A swivel logo! But the bottom line is: you simply cannot please EVERYONE.
aaron_h Jun 19	Exactly phubert. And while I am not a big fan of logos either, I have to tell you when I get on a plane and count the number of Dell systems people pull out, I do feel good about it.
badblood Jun 19	I think it would be good if a computer's design was so distinctive that you could tell what model/brand it was without having to see the logo. Currently only a few computers are like that, such as Apple.
phubert Jun 19	:-D ... yes, I can see that! I envy you working for a company you can be proud of! (and never wish that you be afflicted with working for government!)
badblood Jun 20	who, what, when, where? I don't work for a company! Nor do I work for a government!
jervis961 Jun 20	So your not a secret agent then? :D
badblood Jun 20	In disguise...
badblood Jun 20	actually I reckon that's Phubert.
phubert Jun 20	hmmmmm. Actually, bb, I'm only 19. (Well, I _was_ when I started working for CA state agencies!) And, I really _was_ responding to aaron_h above, didn't see your entry get in ahead of mine... I really don't think that guy looks much like a Conservative Republican, tho... (and I really don't look good in either red or orange! :-D)
aikiwolfie Jun 20	I always wondered what Santa Clause did in the summer months :op
paperpilot Jun 20	I wonder why the old guy doesn't have "One Computer" on his sign. He must not work for Microsoft.
aikiwolfie Jun 20	That's his new Dell-E. It's running a cut down version of XP.
phubert Jun 20	Naaawh... he's OUT there because the company GAVE HIM a laptop running Vista!!!
aikiwolfie Jun 20	LOL you're right. He grew that beard waiting for it to boot.
blah Jun 24	maybe you can change the dell logo so that it looks more or less the same upside down, like how the hp in the hp logo looks the same upside down
phubert Jun 24	Well, that IS convenient for hp... but you have a good point when it comes to graphic design. In fact, it needn't even be a NEW logo, but only a different presentation of the logo on the systems (print it twice, one facing each way?)... With a decent graphics designer, I think it could be made to look O.K. Still, what a silly complaint! The older Dell Precision workstations had a hinged, shield-shaped front cover (with a hard-to-access usb port under it)... I ripped 'em all off.,.. nothing but a pain! So, no Dell logo AT ALL on my PWS boxes!
paperpilot Jun 24	Except for the slanted E, the DELL logo is plain vanilla. Idea Storm has some talented people. Can't we come up with a better DELL logo?
badblood Jun 24	if the logo was on a free rolling bearing and had a counterweight at the bottom it would always spin the right way up depending on the angle of the computer... That'd work.
jervis961 Jun 24	How about no logo at all? People would have to ask you what brand it was.
badblood Jun 24	Reverse psychology. I like it. Actually they could just use the circle in blue...... that'd be mysterious.
jervis961 Jun 24	They could leave the circle out altogether and make a smooth lid. Mysterious and cost effective.
badblood Jun 24	Let's leave nothing to chance in case the partners get upset mind....
jervis961 Jun 24
badblood Jun 24	RIP OFF
phubert Jun 24	:-D ... now we just need a way to interpret "Dell" from that! Still, "Dell" could be inscribed UPON that - twice. Of course, then you'd have various fundamentalist groups complaining... loudly. You can NEVER please EVERYONE.
jervis961 Jun 24	Nope but upside down is bad marketing. It would be like flying the American flag upside down.
phubert Jun 24	Right. But as already pointed-out, it's only upside-down when OPEN. So your FIRST view is correct. You don't SEE it after that (tho others will, of course, if on that side of your laptop... in an airplane, they WON'T be). I still say this is silly.
jervis961 Jun 24	Dell doesn't care what we (the owners) see they are marketing their brand. They do care about what the other people looking at our computers see though and this makes Dell look like they accidentally installed it wrong. They already have a bad rep and this wouldn't help.
gorgias Jun 26	A rotating logo? Come on: this isn't a $300k Rolls Royce Phantom, it's a $300 Dell. Cool as it might be, it's not worth the cost. Anyway, my vote is for the logo to appear right-side up when the top is open.
rotthund Jul 2	Will the logo glow?
jervis961 Jul 2	I doubt it, but you never know.
newbs Jul 8	agree. simple change. large benefits.
anandbalajib Jul 29	Please Include a Webcam \ Microphone and a S-Video output option, The current Vasto 13.3 inch does not have a S-video output
hollyberry Aug 1	apple's logo on the macbook is right side up when you open it. AND it glows!
aikiwolfie Aug 1	Apple also has a 2% market share! Who cares!
phubert Aug 1	a bit more than that aikiwolfie... more like 6% I thought and ~66% of recent > $1,000. sales.
badblood Aug 1	I hate that glowing apple. I always want to smach a pen through it.
hollyberry Aug 1	ha! i don't like macs, that's just one good feature about them. the vostro 1500 has the dell logo right way up, btw.
aikiwolfie Aug 1	You people all have far too much time on your hands! :op
hollyberry Aug 2	i just know someone with a 1500. and since the 1500 has it the right way around, i would guess the rest of the old vostros has it right aswell.
hollyberry Aug 2	so does the latitude D620. I know someone with one of them, and I just checked. So the old latitudes have it right too.
jimmyfingers Aug 6	What about a cool ambigram, just for laptop cases? I could make one, probably.
hollyberry Aug 6	you have fun with that jimmyfingers.
jimmyfingers Aug 6	Took me about 10 minutes to come up with a basic, simple one... www.jimmyfingers.com/dellambigram.jpg There's a guy in New York who could destroy me by doing one better.
aldeal Aug 6	a swivel logo would add to uneccessary production costs anyway @jimmy fingers you beat me to it :) i was thinkin somewhere along that line, like a mirror /reflection DELL on bottom & top (like upside down) I think it would be cool to have jimmyfingers logo on dells
hollyberry Aug 7	HA! JIMMYFINGERS IS A MAGICIAN?????? http://www.jimmyfingers.com/
hollyberry Aug 7	nice jimmyfingers.
jimmyfingers Aug 7	That's only when I'm not managing Wayne mansion... I'd rather be a designer/inventor, but I don't have a degree or formal training. I just design all of my own magic, and lately I've been using laptop and product design to exercise (exorcise?) my mind.
aikiwolfie Aug 7	Exercise. "Exorcise" is what catholic priests do to demons during an exorcism.
jimmyfingers Aug 7	You got it! I guess that I was supposed to put a :) after that... Or maybe a };)>
hollyberry Aug 7	hehe.
aaron_h Aug 15	Speaking of logo's, did anyone else notice the computers the judges were using during the Women's All-Around gymnastics event? I don't think they were Lenovo's. ;)
phubert Aug 15	Apple? :-D
jervis961 Aug 15	Acer? :D
aikiwolfie Aug 15	Lenovo are the official suppliers to the Olympics.
hollyberry Aug 15	THEY WERE DELLS!!! xps i think.
hollyberry Aug 15	and on CBC the broadcasters use latitudes.
porkus 3 days ago	this is a good idea. I think it makes Dells look better if it is the other way. Seriously I have not ever looked at the logo as i opened up the computer. I have noticed the nice Apple logos in coffeehouses, however.
aaron_h 11:58am	I hope we will have some pictures to post soon. There are Dell computers and monitors all over the Olympics. :)
jackie_c 12:17pm	If you want to see a few pics, please see the Dell at the Olympics post in Storm Room.
winoffice 1:16pm	phubert, "I really don't think that guy looks much like a Conservative Republican, tho..." So you are a conservative Republican? Considering how much you support Linux, I doubt that you are a conservative (at least in technology).
aikiwolfie 4:14pm	You go Jackie! Fly the flag! :op ... BTW IdeaStorm really does need smilies!

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