A better 17" laptop bussines line.
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Monitors and Displays, Laptops submitted by pmb
02/27/07
have severals 17" inspirons 9200-9400 notebooks and the "ultrasharp"-dimm screen stinks. In think it's a good idea to have a "middle-cost" professional alternative with a really good anti-glare (non-glossy!) screen. I not a gammer and for works we need a 17" notebooks, why don't sell a Latitude o similar 17" bussiness oriented laptop at decent price (not the overpriced M90 workstation, please!)
In have also a pair of inspiron 1300 with 15.4 screen. These screen are really very good in my opinion, why canno´t put the same quality screen in the Inspiron 9400 line??
Also the white-silver chasis it's really very ugly in my opinion. The general impresion it's they are a bulky and cheap desing copy of Mac laptops...
Please a black-silver design like latitude or maybe Inspiron 1300 it will welcome (why not a inspiron 1300 line with 17" screen option??).
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Stop the TrueLife Madness!
Monitors and Displays submitted by jmecc
03/28/07
First it was all the laptops and now even desktop screens are getting the TrueLife garbage (SP1908). Just keep the screens mat like they were - there was nothing wrong with it and the manufacturers had to screw with it.
TrueLife brings this terrible glare onto the screen that mat screens avoid. In stores, you see this fishbowl screensaver and you know why it looks good - because a real-life fishbowl is glossy! As soon as you try to get work done on these the glare is a big problem though.
Each manufacturer claims to have some anti-reflective coating, but they all look shiny. You know how to recognize something that is reflective: if it is shiny that means it is reflecting light, otherwise it would not look shiny. Please, please, please return to the mat screens!!!
450
Laptop display
Monitors and Displays, Laptops submitted by feeneyl
04/23/07
The display on the laptops that are currently sold by Dell (and its competitors) pose a problem for individuals with a certain type of vision problem. They are highly reflective making the screen contents extremely difficult to view. The surface is mirror-like. I don't want to see my reflection. I want to be able to view the screen. Please bring back a matte option on laptop displays.
450
Glossy Desktop Display
Desktops, Monitors and Displays submitted by smartmove
04/06/07
Provide an option for TrueLife glossy LCD desktop displays. As far as I know, glossy displays are only available on notebooks and the only thing keeping me from buying the 24 inch desktop display is the antiglare filter instead of a glossy filter.
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TV Commercial for New Ubuntu PCs
Advertising and Marketing, Linux submitted by josmar52789
05/03/07
Dell should produce a new commercial for the Ubuntu PCs. It could tell the consumers of America why Dell has chosen to pre-install Linux on mainstream computers and hopefully promote the advantages of this new endeavor. Plus, it's likely that Dell's Linux initiative would be much more successful.
19670
Ditch the Home/Small Business/Enterprise trichotomy
Sales Strategies, Small Business, Laptops submitted by majid
02/17/07
What products I am interested in do not correlate with myself or my company size. It used to be that high-end thin-and-light laptops would not be available in the Home segment, only the Enterprise segment. I'm sorry, just because I am a small-business owner or a home user does not mean I am ready to settle for inferior options deemed "good enough" by the powers that be.
This whole notion of three segments is a relic of a company-centric rather than customer centric marketing culture.
4043
Have Firefox pre-installed as default browser
Software submitted by robinjfisher
02/19/07 **REVIEWED**
Does what it says on the tin! Most people only use IE because they aren't aware of other browsers - they think Internet Explorer is the Internet! What would really drive take up of alternative browsers is if Firefox was pre-installed as the default browser so that when people look for the "Internet" in Windows, they are using FF.
Firefox advocates at Dell have initiated discussions and driven action around exploring alternative internet browsers and experiences. As you can tell from our response to the Linux community, open source continues to be a part of our conversations about new products and services.
118333
No Extra Software Option
Software submitted by ootleman
02/16/07 **PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED**
Would love the ability to have a clean Vista install. No AOL software, no earthlink software, no google software - just a clean, original OS.
Check out jeremy_f's update on our current software options.
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Sell OS free laptops/desktops, include the CUSTOM CD/DVD
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Linux, Desktops and Laptops submitted by tripleii
02/25/07
I applaud Dell for offering some OS free desktops and laptops even before ideastorm. It is a creative loophole in the current OEM agreement where MS must be paid, regardless of which OS is installed. Pre-installing on the laptop (where margins are already tight) means you pay MS and the time/effort/distro cost (if applicable). Here is my open letter from my blog, reposted here, as an idea to offer Linux that "just works", requires almost no effort on your part and avoids the MS OEM tax because you are still just selling "blank" computers.
TripleII
http://mostly-linux.blogspot.com/2007/02/oem-barrier-is-falling-open-letter-t...
Dear Dell,
I have been actively reading your Dell Ideastorm forums and was excited to see your announcements about moving forward offering Linux pre-installed. This action on your part will position your company to reap the benefits from the open source enthusiast community. With that said, like most who post in your forums I have advice, feedback, etc, that I have outlined below.
Laptop's without an OS
I understand and applaud you for offering some models without an OS (and more to come) and understand that this is the best you can do. If you pre-install any OS, Linux, BSD, etc, you are bound and forced to pay Microsoft anyway. Being forced to pay MS AND installing Linux on the laptop diminishes your margins even more in a fiercely competitive market. Unfortunately, for the consumer, even those well versed in Linux must go through the process of installing the distro, tweaking it to work, and configuring it completely before they can move on to the computing experience. There are also the unknowns such as "Does Wireless Work with Ubuntu?", "Can I run 3D accelerated with OpenSuse?", etc.
There is an interim solution that enables you to preserve your profit margin and virtually eliminate the problems above. As you mentioned, you are working with Novel to certify Suse on some of your desktops. Why not embrace the give and take with the open source community even more.
If you were to send me a Dell D620 (what I am writing this on right now in Mandriva 2007), I could pre-install it, tweak it with the required 915Resolution patch, set the BIOS to allow for seamless docking station operation and ship it back. Poof, you have a disk image for the D620 line. You can then create a new installable DVD from the HD (it would only 1/2 fill a single DVD). You offer this DVD to your customers when they purchase the Dell with FreeDos.
Upsides
1) No MS tax
2) Customers know that everything will "just work" when they install the image
3) Customers have the DVD image, they can restore their PC to "factory" settings in 30 minutes.
4) You, literally, have to do nothing to get your laptop certified, get an image, and heck, I'll even throw in the imaged DVD for you.
Downsides
1) I can't think of any.
Now, on a serious note, I don't expect you to ship me a laptop to pre-configure it, however, why not place the call to Mandriva, Ubuntu, FreeSpire, Xandros, etc. You probably would not even have to lend them laptops. You ask them to pre-configure their distro, exactly the way they want, pre-configured, and send you the D620 DVD, or D480 DVD and so on down the line.
On your web site, you openly have an option on all your laptops (for which you have images created) to ship without an OS pre-installed. You then have the customer select the Linux Image DVD they would like. I can see it now.
$799 for XYZ, choose an OS DVD.
1) Linspire with Crossover prepaid $45
2) Mandriva with Club Membership for a year $45
3) Xandros with Crossover and 6 months support $60
4) Ubuntu $0
5) SLED $60
Well, you get the idea.
Desktops
There is no reason you can't offer the same program with Desktops, however, pre-installing any Linux version is great. There are pricing problems as pointed out throughout your forums. In many cases the pre-installed Linux PC costs more than the equivalent Windows installed PC. There are also cases where OS free PCs cost more than the equivalent Windows installed PC.
Again, I do understand the problems you have the MS tax. If any OS is installed, per your OEM agreement, you must pay MS, even when Windows is not installed. To make the purchasing process equivalent, and to realize more sales for you and price savings for the Linux enthusiast, selling your desktops with the same type of imaged DVD would likely be a positive first step.
You see, the number one hindrance to purchasing a PC from a large OEM vendor wihtout a brick and mortar store locally is two fold.
1) We don't want to be forced to pay MS for their operating system that we will not use and
2) We have to spend a lot of time making sure the PC we buy, everything "just works".
For me, I stuck the Mandrake Live CD in a co-worker's machine, and there it was, everything working or not working for me to see. Many Linux users will literally, bring a live CD to the store to dry-run the desktop/laptop they are looking at purchasing. With your machines, that is not an option, and the uncertainty factor certainly hinders your direct sales to the Linux community.
I think you will quickly find that, if you offer to sell it any preconfigured distro CD/DVD with any of your blank laptop/desktop computers, but ask the CD/DVD to be supplied, the response will be overwhelmingly positive and swift from the community and Linux distribution suppliers. It is truly Win-Win-Win (Dell-Supplier-Customer). I buy desktop X, ask for Suse 10.2 and you include the DVD Novel supplied you, leave it in the drive, and on first power on, it installs, and everything "just works"
TripleII
P.S. Mandriva 2007 on D620, 1440X900 works great. 1024X768 on boot up, set your resolution to 1440x900 then click on "configure X-Server". It will ask you to install the 915Resolution fix. That gets you out of 1024X768 expanded mode on your screen. 3D acceleration, 3D effects and ~1500 with glxgears. If using dock, set BIOS to "Internal video card when docked".
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Matte high-resolution screens
Monitors and Displays submitted by programmer001
03/05/07
Dell unfortunately jumped on the TrueLife display for laptops.
These are good for gaming and movies because of the colors and brightness, but are bad for working because they are too much reflective. I am a programmer and the reason for which I used to buy Dell is because of the very high resolution screens (UXGA, WUXGA). In facts I would like to see high-resolution screens available in more laptop models, possibly even in the 15" ones, and in particular I would like to see MATTE high-resolution screens available, not TrueLife.
I guess movies/gaming customers probably buy low-resolution screens, while programmers like me buy high-resolution screens (UXGA, WUXGA) and these are the ones that would benefit from a modern matte screen. A good choice for Dell would probably be to provide the low resolution screens as TrueLife and the high resolution ones as matte, while now it is more like the opposite.
Please offer matte high-res screens at least as an option.
650
Totally silent notebook
Laptops submitted by mgdiakakis
02/21/07
Think of a notebook that would never fire up its blower. My dream. Thinking about it, I have come up with two ideas. A black metallic body on the base of the laptop and round up between the screen and the keyboard or, perhaps not feasible, but not necessarily, the back of the screen, properly modified (possibly featuring a striated aluminum decorative pattern) could play that role, especially with the energy-efficient new processors. Of course, such a design cannot control the energy transfer, but come to think of the position and the surface. Nor need it to be excessively heavy to make the machine easy to topple over either.
Also, given the price of flash today, it would be nice to have flash installed and recognised by the OS as hard drive, which it can use instead of the noisy hard drive for system and programme temporary storage. I believe that could well be a 8-12 GB drive. Then I will arrange a morgage with my banker to buy one.
220
Avoid Glare On Screens and Notebook Frames
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Sales Strategies, Laptops submitted by bobetsue
02/20/07
Glare and reflection from high glare screens, screen frames, and notebook computers is annoying and distract from function and use.
In stores, this may be a marketing ploy. Consumers may not fully understand the problem of glare. Online sellers like Dell should inform buyers when shopping whether the screen and case are "glare" or "nonglare."
When "nonglare" was introduced to television, shoppers considered it an advantage worthy of extra expense. In the art world, nonglare glass is considered worthy of extra expense.
How did we ever get glossy screens?
Dell should offer customers a choice between "glare" and "nonglare."
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A better 17" 1440x900 Anti-glare (non glossy) screen and a black-silver design.
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Inspiron products, Monitors and Displays submitted by pmb
02/27/07
I have severals 17" inspirons 9200-9400 notebooks and the "ultrasharp"-dimm screen stinks. In think it's a good idea to have a "middle-cost" professional alternative with a really good anti-glare (non-glossy!) screen. I not a gammer and for works we need a 17" notebooks, why don't sell a Latitude o similar 17" bussiness oriented laptop at decent price (not the overpriced M90 workstation, please!)
In have also a pair of inspiron 1300 with 15.4 screen. These screen are really very good in my opinion, why canno´t put the same quality screen in the Inspiron 9400 line??
Also the white-silver chasis it's really very ugly in my opinion. The general impresion it's they are a bulky and cheap desing copy of Mac laptops...
Please a black-silver design like latitude or maybe Inspiron 1300 it will welcome (why not a inspiron 1300 line with 17" screen option??).
Thanks and please excuse my poor english :-)
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Silent / Quiet Computers: Sound levels in decibels
Desktops and Laptops submitted by pchris
02/17/07 **REVIEWED**
I'd like Dell to provide the sound level in decibels for each of their desktops, under max load as well as at idle.
How a manufacturer can produce an expensive computer, and then have the user acoustic experience of that computer dominated by the noise generated by a cheap fan worth just pennies, for the entire lifetime of that computer, is incomprehensible. Computers are noisy when brand new, but those cheap fans begin to rub and oscillate and make additional annoying noises, frequently within a short period of time of purchase.
Personally, the peace and quiet of my personal workspace is very important to me, it's my sanctuary from the world where I can focus and be creative. To have that experience disrupted by cheap fans is sad, especially when slightly more expensive fans and some reasonable design would solve the issue. Another reason why I consider buying an Apple.
If the cost of a better sound design and fans is significant, it could be an extra cost option.
In general, Dell provides noise data of its products in the Environmental Datasheets. Tests are conducted according to ISO standards in a NVLAP accredited acoustics facility. Click here for more details
36047
No OS Preloaded
Linux, Operating Systems, Sales Strategies submitted by agreer
02/17/07 **PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED**
I have a XP Pro retail copy, will soon buy retail vista, I also like Linux: Make WINDOWS-FREE, and OS-Free an option for more than just expensive business lines.
Dell has systems available that do not have an OS pre-loaded called N-Series line. You can check them out at www.dell.com/nseries.
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