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Dell needs to give us more information on the adjustability of the LCD monitors when configuring a pc.

Dell, Desktops, Inspiron products, Monitors and Displays submitted by sugarbear 11/19/07

On the Dell website when building a pc, Dell needs to show if the LCD monitors are adjustable up, down, swivel, and tilt. The four listed on building an Inspiron 530 don`t show any thing. 13 Comments »

Large Screen Monitor Giveaway

Monitors and Displays, Sales Strategies submitted by mccoy 11/16/07

Dell should give every customer a free 32inch monitor display with the purchase of every inspiron notebook - for use at the office. It's the least they can do. 31 Comments »

Put a physical bluetooth switch on laptops

Broadband and Mobility, Laptops submitted by badblood 10/30/07

So you can easily switch it on and off and see that it's on or off.... 18 Comments »

Biodegradable Packing material

Environment submitted by ewagnerjr2000 04/19/07 **UNDER REVIEW**

When I received my 32" lcd screen it had an extremely large amount of Styrofoam. Dell is working to be environmentally friendly, maybe they should consider a better packing material at least one that will biodegrade.





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Include cleaning and screen protection cloth with laptops

Monitors and Displays, Laptops submitted by jkeating 11/02/07

A nice dell branded cleaning cloth should be included with new laptops. This cloth would be used to clean the laptop sceens as well as lay on top of the keyboard when the laptop is closed to protect the screen from keyboard imprints. If a cloth is included it is far more likely that this cloth would be used to clean rather than some other cleaning device which may damage a user's screen. 10 Comments »

PCIe Flash Drive for OS

New Product Ideas, Laptops submitted by coachcg 11/14/07

This would be great to get in new Dell laptops:

SanDisk revealed Vaulter, a 8GB or 16GB flash drive that can hold your entire OS, designed to sit on the PCIe port inside a laptop. In Windows, this creates a separate letter drive, which speeds the heck out of your computer, without taking the place of your 2.5" SATA-connected HDD. It's not a Santa Rosa "Robson" thing either—it's a real drive, not some caching assistant. (In case you're wondering, Mac support is coming.) Performance acceleration comes from "pre-controlling the distribution of storage data between itself and the hard drive." The fact that it's on the PCIe port means that both storage devices can work in parallel. Now, the bad news: SanDisk is only offering it to OEM partners at first. We won't be able to buy them a la carte for a little while.

Even better if we can get them for upgrades to current laptop models. 14 Comments »

Easier way to OPT OUT of Dell selling my private information

Advertising and Marketing submitted by ninefoot3 10/17/07 **IN PROGRESS**

I rec'd a brochure yesterday saying Dell and DFS were going to share my private info with other 3rd party companies for marketing purposes. Well, it said that in about 5,000 words or so. At the end is a box stating that I may opt-out of this by calling the number listed or writing a letter (including certain info) and send it to the listed address.

I chose to use the phone method. After being shoved around to a few people, I finally got someone who could help me 'opt-out'. This involved 'opening a case' as if I had a technical issue with my account.

My IdeaStorm suggestion, hey Dell, make it easier for us to OPT-OUT of your attempts to make money off of my personal information. What's the matter? Didn't make enough money off of my patronage to Dell products and the interest rates charged? Getting an extra $1 for my name, address and age information going to help Michael Dell get a new boat? C'mon!

While I'm disturbed that Dell wanted to sell me out, I'm more disturbed that Dell made it difficult for us to opt-out. A simple URL would have been nice. I know, that would make more people opt-out and Dell would have less names to sell. It's like a mail-in-rebate or the lack of a cancel button in the account information at freecreditreport.com, you HAVE to call, and since that's a pain in the neck, most people will sloth themselves into something they don't really want. 42 Comments »

Please remove the requirement "up to 10 words" when reporting abuse.

IdeaStorm submitted by winoffice 11/21/07

When I click "Report abuse." to report abuse on an idea or a comment I see this first.

"Please indicate the type of abuse. (up to 10 words) [Report] [Cancel]"

Why is the requirement "(up to 10 words)" there? Is it so hard to allow more than 10 words? Sometimes when I report abuse I need to type more than 10 words to fully explain the type of abuse.

At least please explain to us why there is such a requirement. 8 Comments »

Making 16:9 Widescreen Monitors for PCs instead of 16:10.

Monitors and Displays submitted by vanderlot 11/13/07

If Dell make monitors like these, then we wouldn't have to worry about getting a LCD TV to hookup to our computers or to any another component to receive signals from here and there (and LCD TVs doesn't always deliver picture perfect quality anyways). Having a type of monitor that will work with everything (especially with movies without having black bars at the top and bottom of the screen and we haven't been focusing on that when it comes on to computers).

So I'm suggesting that you guys consider doing something like this and have a sleek design relative to the current 16:10 LCD monitors. The monitors may carry a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080 or more depending the size of the displays. You could still have the 16:10 monitors but separating those from the 16:9 monitors. I think it's a great idea. 15 Comments »

Ubuntu Dell Repo

Linux, Service and Support submitted by tekhawk 07/20/07 **PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED**

basicly a simple idea dell to support the ubuntu community a little bit by running a repo for its laptops and desktop if nothing more to support the software that they install on the system and to provide driver updates theses repos should be setup on the machines before shipping so that the users can get the driver updates quick and easy and offer driver on there for all the drivers that there are for dell machines that are support on linux not just the shipping lines

so that user might find that other machines then the ones you ship with ubuntu can easly be made into power ubuntu operating machines


As matt_d has said below, we have repositories for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Novell/SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, and a growing one for Ubuntu. Check it out here http://linux.dell.com.
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Reducing power use of PC attached peripherals

Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Desktops submitted by garygary 11/21/07

It is good that Dell is paying more attention to PC energy use, but on our two computers, the peripherals hooked to the computer use more power than the PC itself does. So, if the PC goes into hibernate or standby, the peripherals are still consuming power -- quite a bit in our case.

To reduce power consumption by peripherals I installed a "Mini Power Minder", which powers down all of my peripherals when the computer goes into hibernate. It knows when to do this via a USB connection.

http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Conservation/MiniPowerMinder.htm

So, my idea is, why not build the equivalent of this into each desktop computer. Basically provide one switched AC outlet on the back that powers down when the computer goes into hibernate or standby. A power strip could be plugged into this outlet, and all peripherals that don't need continuous power could be plugged into this power strip.

The savings for our two computers would be:
(54 watts + 10 watts)(7600 hrs idle PC time/yr) = 490 KWH/yr
A $50 saving in electricity and nearly 1000 lbs CO2.

Based on these measurements with a KillAWatt:
http://www.builditsolar.com/References/Half/PowerConsumption.htm

Gary 2 Comments »

alow us to chose diferent color scemes on idea storm

IdeaStorm submitted by matthew2142 11/20/07

The new look is gonna take time getting used to, but can we please have the option to chose different color schemes, 10 Comments »

Have the "sugestions: idea storm where your ideas reign" become a link to the home page

IdeaStorm submitted by matthew2142 11/20/07

The huge graphic on top. have it a link to the main page on idea storm. make it easer to get to the main page like before. 17 Comments »

Making LCD Monitors more visual friendly

Monitors and Displays submitted by vanderlot 11/18/07

In these days of technology,... LCD monitors have played an important rule in letting us see things even better and never thought possible. And now, it is so advanced that it is even becoming more unfriendly to human sight.

I know that there is alot of things to be done and if Dell can do something about the radiation or the radiant images or any other that is related to this issue of violent light that is coming out of these new monitors then people wouldn't have to worry about wearing glasses or placing something over the screens to protect their eyes.

Sales could double knowing that no one has to worry about the issue of radiation and turning to other source of help (even though people are already buying LCD monitors due to the limited existents of CRT monitors).

The key is to invent or develop something into the future monitors that can reduce stress to the eyes (especially for people who stare at their screens everyday). 19 Comments »

IdeaStorm: Add an Abstain vote option to Ideas to give people on the fence an option.

IdeaStorm submitted by jorge 11/02/07

Not all Ideas can be mote and demote, for some, one would want to just abstain.

So get another Java button ready SalesForce, and another DB field to hold the abstain votes, don't forget a counter as well so we know how many people have abstained on an idea.

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