Stick with one naming scheme for laptops

July 10, 2012

Posted By:  Autobot

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Having used Dell laptops for a few years (and having lots of friends who use dells). They all seem to follow one basic idea when it comes to naming the different models
->Inspiron    = Buget Laptops
->XPS           = Performance Laptops
->Alienware = Extreme performance for gaming

But recently dell india has gotten rid of the entire XPS 15 & 17 line of laptops and decided to name the performance category of laptops Inspiron 15R & 17R (http://www.dell.com/in/p/inspiron-17r-se-7720/pd.aspx?c=in&cs=indhs1&l=en&s=dhs). A laptop costing INR 95000 ( 1800 $) is definitely not a budget laptop.

For lot of Dell users Inspiron always meant budget laptops and XPS always meant Performance laptops.

In practical terms, this took me a lot longer to find my new laptop since I opened the XPS (which only features ultrabooks now) tab by default in your website and found nothing there met my needs. I resisted opening the inspiron tab initially because of my eariler stated prejudice. An inspiron always made me picture a INR 30000 (550 $) laptop.

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  • Jul 11, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: IdeaStorm Moderator Cy_J

    Thank you for clarifying Autobot.  My reference to the US site was not due to a misunderstanding but rather to call out that the XPS 15 is still available in the US.  I am not sure about plans to bring it to India.  I could have been clearer in my comments, sorry about that.

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  • Jul 11, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: Autobot

    I was firstly talking about the dell india website, not US.

    I finally settled for an Inspiron 15R Special Edition costing around INR 68000 ( around 1200 - 1300 US Dollars )
    Laptops in this Price/Performance Category were previously called XPS here in India.

    It just took a lot longer to find this laptop. Previously laptops costing over INR 50000 were all XPS laptops. So I opened the XPS tab on your website and went through the entire XPS catalogue before I zeroed in on this one.

    Some of the other comments on this thread also look like good ideas.
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  • Jul 11, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: goodbyegoodhair

    Why not use a convention like:

    XPD - denotes desktop
    XPN - denotes notebook

    or XPS-D and XPS-N?
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  • Jul 11, 2012     Comment Link

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    pudgyone

    Dimensions used to be Desktops

    Inspirons used to be Laptops

    Latitudes were Business Laptops

    The should have kept them listed that way. Now when someone says I have a Dimension, without the model number, you don't know if it is a desktop or laptop
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  • Jul 10, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: IdeaStorm Moderator Cy_J

    In the US we have the Inspiron R as well as the XPS 14 and 15 which were recently announced.  What exactly were you looking for?