Dell preinstall Google Indexing service
Software submitted by mistern
06/11/07
Dell should pre-install the Google Desktop search services, for three reasons:
- They are just the best (indexing service).
- Google pays good money.
- Google software is no crapware, it's quality work.
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Replace the Keyboard's Windows key with the Easy Key
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.) submitted by jorge
06/11/07
Dell replace the hated and useless windows key  with the Easy Key which is what all your complaining, nagging, whinning customers want even if they can't verbalize it.
Its red color will aid in tech support helping users identify the easy key and it will make all users feel good when pressing it, there will be some technical issues in jamming it in place but it will be well worth it.
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Stop Offering Vista
Operating Systems submitted by kenjennings
06/14/07
It's been out long enough for everyone to realize its a dog. It makes Dell's perfectly good, new computers run like old computers. It's buggy, expensive, unintuitive, and provides no worthwhile practical features. The people who die for eye candy are probably using Macs already. The power users who know (or want to know) how to get close to their computers use Linux. So, about all that's left are gamers -- and Vista isn't wonderfully compatible as a multi-gigabyte boot loader for games. The only real reason to keep Vista is fear of Microsoft.
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Pre-install kid friendly software and set internet properties accordingly.
Software, Desktops and Laptops submitted by gdltec
06/16/07
I am a parent and every time I start looking for computers for my kids I am surprised on how little computer makers focus on setting desktops and laptops to be used by kids.
Just pre-install applications that are used by kids, games, etc, and pre-setup the internet access so it blocks websites, chat rooms, etc that are not appropriate for kids. Hey, you could even have this as an option with different software and settings depending on the kid's age group.
Make it easy for parents and fun and safer for our kids and we'll start buying more computers for our kids.
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Dell/Yahoo Merger
Dell, Sales Strategies submitted by robert
06/19/07
Why not consider a merger between Dell and Yahoo. Bring together two companies that both need a remake. I can easily see talent from both companies coming together to make a stronger more marketable, whole. A merger could result in a powerhouse in the internet/computer world that would address all business and personal comuter internet needs under one roof.
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Dell buy/invest/advertise in the Dallas Mavericks and/or the San Antonio Spurs
Advertising and Marketing submitted by jorge
06/17/07
Dell you need to get your name up in the NBA boards and join the high rollers in advertising in sporting events that are Team oriented to use them for team building strategies for the company. This improves company moral and adds a company outing to raise moral.
My pork barrel is to move the money from auto racing to non-energy wasting sports.
This can lead to a Dell dept. tournament and increase moral even more! Not to mention increase the health of your employees and increased attendance at work.
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openSUSE
Linux submitted by jdcastro
06/18/07
Es la distribución Linux de escritorio de mayor calidad, estabilidad y belleza del momento, debería ser soportada por Dell.
O al menos debería poder elegirse entre su oferta de productos.
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Dell Quickly Create a Transformer Computer for Kids, and enjoy the coming bandgwagon of Transformer mania!
Advertising and Marketing, New Product Ideas, Sales Strategies submitted by jorge
06/16/07
Voted Best Idea! By Kids nationwide! On KidStorm.com
Dell quickly develop a case for both Notebooks and Desktops that either use or are actual transformers. The Movie is going to be out soon and if you time it right you can hit the bandwagon marketing window and cash out! As in sell a plethora of computers using this theme and without using the actual word Transformer! Kids will buy these up by the gross! You can use your outgoing product line as the guts of the transformer computers to use up the remaining P4's and Celerons you still have lying around. These computers do not have to be long lasting only hyped up to sell as a gimmick, and your new Wal-Mart deal can be used to distribute as most of the possible customers will be buying there as it is.
Car companies are gearing up, so don't miss out on this opportunity!
 
See!
Start Jul. 2nd:  provided by florida web site design
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Radio facility with laptop
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Laptops submitted by shivali
06/18/07
i want to notice you a problem which is faced while using the laptop that we cant listen to radio(FM) if we are not online so.
So why dont u place the frequency setting devies in the laptop. so that the people can enjoy it more.
According to my survey it queit cheap thing.
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Stop Offering XP
Operating Systems submitted by badblood
06/14/07
Now that I've been using Vista for a while I am happy and have gotten over my initial fears. XP isn't as good, lets face it. The only real reason to keep it is fear of change.
THIS IS NOT A JOKE.
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Retail Opportunity
Sales Strategies submitted by javeriaa84
06/19/07
I am an intern at Dell for the summer and have been noticing and hearing a lot about the high emphasis put on retail by Dell. I am a senior at The University of Texas at Austin, and as a student I believe Dell should open up personal Dell stores on college campuses and sell products to students on special student discounts. This will make the students happy as they like to grab at any opportunity for a discounted product. It will be good for Dell as majority of the students finance all their electronic purchases and by having a Dell store on campus will increase the sales for Dell products and DFS (Dell Financial Services). As Apple already started with the idea of opening stores in malls etc, this will be a new and innovative market for any electronic company to get into, especially, Dell at this point. Additionally, by opening campus stores, and providing discounts to staff and students, Dell will also be able to approach it as a community gesture; that by helping students, we understand and realize the fact that students have the burden of loans and we want to help by providing them with an opportunity to easily purchase any customized electronic product that they need and desire at a discounted rate. Who knows, we might even get a tax break out of it!
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Dell true mini-sized desktop
Desktops submitted by jerbl
02/17/07
I suggest that Dell design and sell a true mini-sized desktop CPU.
It would be similiar in size, weight and power to the Apple Mac Mini, but with Windows software.
Customers who buy a LCD or Plasma TV also prefer a CPU with a small footprint.
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Have publicly available torrents/ISOs of all driver and media discs
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Software submitted by remover
06/15/07 **NOT NOW**
As a former dell technician and now computer repair shop technician, I frequently encounter Dell machines where there driver disc is missing and or out of date. Having worked on the phones I know it's not cheap for Dell to keep these in stock and to keep shipping them out.
My suggestion: use a free peer to peer download system to distribute these discs. BitTorrent. It's free and simple to set up. Along side the torrents you could have ISOs ready for download if the person is unfamiliar with BitTorrent.
While the most common consumer may not be able to utilize it to full effectiveness, it gives local technicians and either knowledgeable users or friends of the less-than-knowledgeable users will have access to the most up to date disk images.
Just my two cents.
Scott Lyons
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Edubuntu or K12LTSP on servers for Schools
Education, Sales Strategies, Servers and Storage submitted by jkorz
06/19/07
As a Network Administrator for a large public school, I would like to see servers with K12LTSP or Edubuntu preinstalled (and fully supported). The thin client computing model is becoming very lucrative for school districts with small tech departments because these systems are robust, inexpensive, simple to maintain and can do 95% of what school children need computers for. Dell could offer a bundle of high end servers and thin clients. There could be an option to upgrade to slightly thicker clients that could run LTSP local apps to boost performance.
Schools are going to do this with or without Dell. It makes sense for Dell to get on board rather than be left behind.
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Low Power Usage Machines
Environment, Desktops and Laptops submitted by bluefoxicy
06/12/07
This proposal suggests creating specifically low-energy systems, with mid-level performance. We suggest a market for this proposal; a handful of existing technologies useful to these ends; and theoretical initiatives to continue on with this initiative.
This proposal suggests low-energy, mid-level performance systems. These systems would serve for generic tasks taken by a number of individual groups; in a nutshell, the system would function as a generic machine running Linux, although further initiatives would allow running Windows. These machines would be geared more towards tasks such as Web browsing, E-mail, audio and video encoding, video conferencing, and graphics editing; but would find deficiency in running high-intensity real time scientific applications or leading-edge 3D games. Such machines would utilize less electricity and thus cost less to run; also laptops and computers running on UPS would last longer on battery.
Existing technologies include alternate processor architectures such as Intel's Xscale ARM processor as I suggested earlier[1]; Mary Lou Jepsen's new LCD design[4] as I suggested earlier[2]; a low-power wireless chipset; and flash-based disks.
The Intel Xscale ARM processor runs at 600MHz and only in 32-bit mode, dual processor SMP could allow 1200MHz total. The high efficiency of the ARM architecture allows high performance at these low clock speeds; more importantly to this proposal, the Intel Xscale@600MMhz consumes 0.5 watts of power[3]. An Intel Core2duo X6800@2.93GHz consumes 75 watts of power[3], while a Core2duo U7600@1.20GHz consumes 10 watts. A dual processor Xscale system would utilize 1 watt of power for 1.20GHz to run the processors; this translates into lower heat production and thus reduced cooling requirements as well, further reducing power usage and also possibly allowing for fanless, quieter systems.
Mary Lou Jepsen designed a new display technology[4] for the One Laptop Per Child project. This technology uses a bright white LED and refraction to project colors to individual pixels; power usage reductions come from removing the high-power fluorescent back light. The display has color artifact issues, currently solved by applying a slight amount of blurring; sharpness falls below 200dpi. I am unsure of the potential to improve this technology for sharper displays; however it does have a wider color gamut than a normal LCD, and a very low manufacture cost.
The One Laptop Per Child project also uses a low-power wireless networking chipset. I believe this chipset uses an embedded, low-clockrate, self-clocked ARM processor with built-in RAM used to store firmware (loaded by the driver). The chipset uses, overall, a few tens of milliwatts of electricity at most; the power footprint of this wireless chipset is almost nothing. The particular chipset is an 802.11b chipset; however, similar designs for 802.11a/g/n chipsets should be possible. Having such a low power usage chipset for wireless would obviously contribute to the lower power footprint of the system.
Flash based "hard disks" (main storage) also supply a method of reducing system power usage; unfortunately, the technology carries a high price tag. Newegg sells 16GB USB flash drives for around $130, so I estimate retail price of 96GB flash storage drives would fall at $780 currently. Still, the price point moves rapidly with this technology, so in a few years this will become quite viable; I remember around 2003 things like 128MB drives cost $90, and 2GB drives cost $200 in 2005. If we look at the 2005 price and assume at least an 8-fold increase in capacity for the same price, then 128GB flash drives should fall around $100-$150 by 2009; realistically, the fabrication processes for smaller semiconductors become easier and the capacity per price grows exponentially.
Further theoretical initiatives include a hardware x86-to-ARM translator chipset; low-power 3D graphics; and static graphics buffers that can stay on without the CPU or most of the graphics chipset.
This proposal specifically suggests a low-power-usage ARM processor; however, modern operating systems run on x86. Modern x86 processors use a RISC language internally and apply translation to x86 instruction code to produce RISC instructions; in the same way, an expansion chipset could translate x86 code to ARM. The BIOS and its shadow would always run directly on the ARM; but a setting in the BIOS would control whether all other code runs on x86 or ARM. Setting this to x86 would activate a chipset which translates x86 instructions to ARM instructions upon fetch, and caches the output in an additional cache (Possibly a reserved segment of main memory, size adjustable in BIOS for performance). In the presence of a completely ARM operating system, this translation chipset could be completely disabled and unpowered, saving power.
Many desktop applications utilize menial 3D graphics, or can be accelerated by 3D graphics. A fully OpenGL 2.0 or higher and DirectX 10 or higher supporting 3D chipset could provide support to desktop environments like Aero and Compiz and simplistic games on the level of Armagetron or Nexuiz. This chipset could run at a low clock rate and utilize a low power footprint; not much power is needed to run simple 3D desktops. The chipset could alternately scale to high clock rates as needed, possibly supporting more intensive 3D applications.
The AMD Geode GX and Geode LX contain an integrated graphics chipset. This graphics chipset maintains the video buffer even when power to the processor is completely removed (power to the graphics area stays). I believe it also can maintain the display with most of the graphics hardware off, as long as the frame buffer stays powered; in this case, the same static image can stay on the screen, so as long as the cursor isn't blinking and the mouse isn't moving power usage drops drastically. A graphics chipset which behaves in this way would allow for large power savings if a properly coded operating system took advantage of it.
Once again, this proposal in general suggests low-power, mid-performance machines for desktops and laptops. The above ideas give some possible methods for implementing this; further research is required, but I believe I've given some interesting direction here.
[1] http://ideastorm.com/article/show/67331/ARM_PCs
[2] http://ideastorm.com/article/show/67334/LowPower_nomercury_LCD_Monitors
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Machine#Display
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