If you have heard all this hype about the new Dell XPS One desktop machine, which is basically an iMac that’s black and runs Vista, then you might have heard of the One (PRODUCT) RED. It was designed as a limited item that would give $US80 to Global Fund from every purchase.
There is one issue though, and that is the price. The standard Dell XPS One costs $US1299, which is expensive as is, comes with Vista Home and Works. The Red comes in at $US1599 and comes with Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 Student. You pay $300 more, but only $80 goes to charity?
On top of that, it seems someone over at Engadget has worked out that you could buy both those Microsoft upgrades for as little as $US200. This means, you are paying for the software, the charity and they still making an extra $20 on you.
This whole RED campaign to raise money for charity is fantastic, but to raise money for profits is pure bad. Dell and Microsoft, this is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen, and I hope that enough people about it before they blow their money on your cruel plans.
For more info, click over to Engadget.
We had a little view of the M1730 before its recent release and now we have gotten wind of another new notebook for the ever growing XPS range of Dell’s. This will be a little smaller and a hell of a lot lighter then the 1730, with a 15-4-inch screen and slot loading DVD/Blu-Ray Drive.
Unfortunately this model won’t support dual video processors, but it will come with a choice of 2 decent nVidia’s as long as you don’t expect to play to many new games on them. The choices will be either a GeForce 8400M or 8600M GS with up to 256MB of video ram.
Otherwise it is standard affair with a 15.4-inch screen with either a CCFL up to 1680 x 1050 or LED up to 1440 x 900, Intel Core 2 Duo 1.5 - 2.6 GHz (T5250 to T7800), options for 802.11a/b/g/n, WWAN, Bluetooth, finger print reader, built-in webcam and a HDMI port (I will report this until it is standard). It will apparently weigh 4 pounds, but will wait for final word before seeing that as feasible in such a feature rich notebook. No price yet, but should be announced on November 7th.
For more info, travel over to the Engadget Blog.
Remember the heavy weight notebook we talked about a few days ago? The expensive but powerful Dell XPS M1730? Well you can now order it from the Dell website for a sweet starting price of $US2999.
For more info, click over to Dell silly.
Do you live in an apartment that is the size of jimmy the crickets matchbox home but feel that console gaming is repetitive and growing old? Well you need to get yourself an ultra mean desktop replacement notebook, like, lets say, the new Dell XPS M1730. It’s simply a beast with a 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 processor (800MHz FSB and 4MB cache), 2GB 667MHz DDR2 memory (4GB for an additional $US375), 2 x 200GB 7200RPM disks, DVD burner (upgradeable for Blu-ray playback for an additional $US550), dual 512MB nVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT with nVIDIA SLI, AGEIA™ PhysX™ Physics Accelerator, 802.11a/g/n WiFi and a neat 17-inch WUXGA. All this for the tiny price of $US4,192. Wait a second that isn’t tiny at all! You could buy yourself a bigger apparent with that cash people! Other then the possible weight of around 3000Kg’s and the battery life of negative 2 hrs, it will at least be able to run Crysis at 1024×768 with everything on extreme (I hope). Not yet released but considering you can already buy it on the Dell Website, it shouldn’t be long now.
For more info, teleport over to the Engadget Website.