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low cost laptop

Sales Strategies, Laptops submitted by dicky.parhar Jul 15

If Nicholas Negroponte can do this on meager donated money, why can't Dell - a multibillion dollar corporation - do the same. Strategicaly, it will bring in lot of goodwill and halo effect for the dell products. 6 Comments »

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Media Direct 4 for everyone

Software submitted by mrzero Jul 15

Dell, it makes no sense not to allow users of Media Direct access to the new version (version 4). Version 4 (see http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=... for details).

Consider posting this as a download... 8 Comments »

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World Wide Hotpoint (WWH)

Broadband and Mobility submitted by roderic8 Jul 16

Hotpoints should be like cell phone coverage. With WWH you would sign up for a service like ISP but WWH is set of towers that transmit wireless signal. This would standardize the wireless network. 3 Comments »

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University students should get more discounts

Education submitted by ankitkhare Jul 17

University students should get more discounts 9 Comments »

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Have a series of laptops geared towards students.

Education, Sales Strategies, Laptops submitted by hollyberry Jul 17

I think there should be a series of laptops geared towards students looking for a laptop with word processing and internet at a cheaper price. students don't need a fancy laptop with a fancy pricetag. they just need a basic, small laptop that is affordable to them. 4 Comments »

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Goodbye Dell, you'll be missed...

Desktops and Laptops submitted by okroger104 Jul 14

Recently bought an HP HDX 9000 and a Pavillion TX2500 tablet.

Why?

Styling, function, and price was just right.

What did I have to compare the HP's to before buying?

Nothing.

And that sums up the usefulness of this website. I can see why HP rocketed to #1 past Dell in such a short time.

As a long time customer of Dell and one who still uses their products that I purchased a while ago, it's somewhat sad to see Dell no longer on the cutting edge.

These HP machines are well designed with excellent build quality. Their customer service so far has been above and beyond. (Sure, maybe I'm just lucky.)

So have fun folks. Fight the good fight. Hopefully in the future I can return to being a Dell customer.

And so you may ask, what is the idea in this post? if it's not self-evident, then you need to get out more and see the rest of the computing world. 25 Comments »

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Wishlist

Inspiron products submitted by edoovel Jul 15

I hope that Dell Inspiron Mini has:

1 GB RAM (DDR2)
At least 40GB (i dont mind HDD, although SDD is better)
Intel Atom processor
At least 533MHz
Windows XP Home
6-cell batteries (at least for better battery life)
Large keypad (black wqith white letters)
The mouse pad please don't like Acer Aspire One or HP Mini
Fast startup
Good broadband speed. 8 Comments »

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cell phone

Broadband and Mobility submitted by jt4615 Jul 15

A viedo conference phone as well as a pocket pc. 2 Comments »

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Targt Disk Mode over Firewire and USB

Operating Systems, Desktops and Laptops submitted by ravi723 Jul 15

This is a feature that has been on Macs forever. It allows your to access your computers drives as if it was a firewire/USB external drive. This makes it easier to retrieve data off of a machine who's OS is having problems booting up. 8 Comments »

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smaller screens more available

Monitors and Displays, Laptops submitted by hollyberry Jul 15

I think that in your products there is an absence of 13.3" and 12.1" models. The only low priced 13.3" model is the Vostro 1310. I believe that in this age where mobility is a must, there should be more machines with smaller screen sizes more readily available at a lower price, because there are many people who are travelling around a lot looking for a small screen size for better mobility and a lighter laptop. Thank you for reading my comment and considering my idea. 5 Comments »

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Provide clean Postscript Drivers

Printers and Ink submitted by pfismvg Jul 16

Network printers with postscript support should have clean drivers available for download. Nowadays every printer seems to have a bloated driver with some useless per printer custom port monitor. If you have only one printer on your computer that is usually no problem, if you have a few they may allready make your system unstable. if you have lots ln your windows 2003 print server it is a nightmare.

After some digging I found that you can always use the default windows PS printer driver as long as you have a correct PPD file.

but finding the PPD files on the Dell site is a nightmare and you need to download a lot of huge files before you get everything.

I created a driver pack with the following printers (these I have on my network)
Dell 1600
Dell 1700
Dell 1720
Dell 1815
Dell 3100
Dell 5100
Dell 5110
Dell 5200
Dell 5210
Dell 5310

To find all correct files I had to download more then 200 Mb
the final version is only 2 Mb and supports XP/2003/Vista 32 and 64 bit

http://cid-5059424a2ac3e7cc.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/PrinterDrivers/CleanD...

please check the above file and start providing drivers like this for all your networked postscript printers. I know lots of System administraters will love this. 4 Comments »

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New Product idea

New Product Ideas submitted by sdweddington Jul 12

Create a fingerprint reader for retailers. make the reader coinside with their credit or debit cards. I think this would stop idenity theft(a great precentage). When the customer runs thier cards, the fingerprint will have to match the buyers. Then maybe this could even go for bank tranactions. this would create an convenience for alot of consumers. It would actually have to be put in financial institues first. 4 Comments »

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Glow in the dark letters

Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), New Product Ideas, Laptops submitted by badblood Jul 14

There's lots of ideas here for a back lit keyboard or for little lamps to shine on the keyboards of laptops, so that we can use our computers int he dark. Proble is, both of these can contribute to battery drain.

So why not put glow in the dark letters on the keyboard. Illumination from the screen should be enough to keep them bright and easy to see.

19 Comments »

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Subwoofer for Dell Studio

Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Laptops submitted by bobmil Jul 14

Please Provide a subwoofer (and possibly Dolby Enhancement)
in your "muldtimedia ready" Studio line of notebooks. 1 Comment »

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Future Screens

New Product Ideas, Software submitted by nivek Jul 1

Dell needs to be ready for the O-LED technology. Work with Microsoft to have the most compatible Drivers and Software for touch-screens made from O-LED's. By the time Windows 7 comes out, O-LED's will be cheep enough for everyone to use them as wallpaper, then you could have your computer screen on all the walls of your house! If Dell and Microsoft partner and work together, Windows 7 will be the best Operating System to Run your O-LED wallpaper on. Just think, you could take your finger, draw a square on the wall, and choose if you want it to be a digital window or a Television! If Dell and Microsoft can recognize this amazing concept and work as a team, the competition (including Apple, Sony, Toshiba, and more) will not stand a chance and be forced out of business. 12 Comments »

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Training default on laptop

Service and Support submitted by jamiowen Jul 1

The Microsoft help is hard to use. Maybe you could have training applications pre-installed (or links to them) for features. 1 Comment »

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Rename Dell to Vostro

Dell submitted by napa Jul 1

Vostro is an awesome name 12 Comments »

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THE LOUNGE

Dell Community submitted by charisse212 Jul 1

THE LOUNGE WOULD BE THE NEXT MYSPACE. IT WOULD BE A PLACE PEOPLE CAN COME AND TALK TO ALL OF THEIR FRIENDS AT THE SAME TIME. INSTEAD OF JUST BEING ABLE TO INSTANT MESSAGE EACH OTHER ONE AT A TIME, ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS WOULD BE ABLE TO VIEW AND PARTICIPATE IN THE CONVERSATION. YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO CUSTOM DESIGN YOUR OWN ICON WHICH BE A CHOICE OF SEATING ITEM. FOR EXAMPLE YOU CAN CHOOSE A STOOL, CHAIR, COUCH, LOVESEAT, ANYTHING YOU CAN LOUNGE IN AND RELAX. 10 Comments »



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