Dell has announced that they are now shipping Ubuntu computers running the latest 7.10 release. On the Dell blog they said that it took so long because they wanted to do extensive testing first, but I would say that it was a rather fast turnaround considering that it was such a big upgrade.
Dell just posted a $400 deal for the Vostro 1000 laptop computer, with Windows XP Home or with Vista Home Basic. That's the same price of both the Asus Eee PC and the OLPC, which are no where near full-featured computers.
Some of you probably remember the Dell laptop that caught fire at a Japanese conference last year due to problems with the battery.
Forbes has released their list of the 400 richest Americans where this year, even one BILLION dollars wasn't enough to land you on the list. As we've heard, the rich are getting richer with the minimum net worth on this list being $1.3 billion dollars compared to $300 million last year.
I was recently invited to join a group for HP regarding the future generations of laptops. They want myself, among others, to share our "." This is really a great idea, and in a way reminds me of Dell launching the IdeaStorm site.
Sales figures for the PC Market have been updated and Apple fans have reason to celebrate after Apple has reclaimed their position as the third largest PC seller in the US market. How did the other PC vendors do? Here are the top five:
Bloat-free seems to be a new trend these days, first with Dell offering an option to opt-out of some of the unnecessary “stuff” and now with Wal-Mart’s new budget computer.
Dell wants you to pick your favorite color with your next notebook PC purchase. Starting today, a new line of Inspiron home notebook computers will give you the option of selecting one of eight different colors at an attempt to boost sales.
Any time I’ve gone out to purchase a laptop, I’ve consider my options carefully and looked around to find out what promotions were going on. I don’t know about you, but I always want the best bang for my buck.
Dell has now taken the first step at removing some of the bloat from the computers they ship to consumers. Now when purchasing a computer you’ll have the option to opt-out of productivity software, ISP software, and photo/music management software. That’s good because many of those things are probably uninstalled by the users when they first get the computer.
Just the other day we announced that Dell was going to be shipping Ubuntu on three different computer models, and the time is here for you to be the first to own one of those computers. Here is a look at the three computers you have to choose from:
Dell started out in 1984 and has evolved into the 25th largest company in the United States according to revenue ($56 billion in 2006). Now to celebrate their 23rd anniversary they are offering some great deals, and there is also a new feature I caught a glimpse of.
I was just catching up on some news over at DesktopLinux.com, and noticed that there is a report that Dell will be making the Ubuntu Operating System available on Thursday (May 24, 2007). Initially they will be throwing in three different models with only one of them being a laptop:
It was just a few weeks ago that more rumors were flying around that Dell was planning to launch a Tablet PC towards the end of October. At the time, the rumor claimed that the PC would be based upon a Latitude notebook computer.
Microsoft is throwing their weight around once again, and this time they are going against free and open-source software (FOSS). The 235 patent infringements in question are largely regarding the Linux operating system. They don’t give details as to what the patents cover, but they did break it down a little:
I don’t think anyone was really surprised when Dell and Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) announced the choice of Linux distribution to ship on Dell computers later in May will be Ubuntu 7.04.
Dell has taken a huge step in the world of notebook computers…they added a solid state drive (SSD) to the list of hard drive choices available on select notebook models. The two models that received the option are the Latitude D420 and the D620. It is important to note that both of those laptops are high priced and targeted for businesses, not for consumers.
Rumors are flying once again that Dell is planning to launch a Tablet PC towards the end of October. This is far from the first time that I have heard about a Dell Tablet PC that is supposedly in-the-works, but it seems to be a lot more credible this time around.
The first result from the Dell IdeaStorm site has finally been implemented, but it doesn’t have to do with Linux. In fact, it has to do with another operating system…Windows XP. Just when you thought that Dell had completely phased Windows XP out they have now started to bring it back for consumers.
The Direct2Dell blog just posted about a new laptop that Michael Dell has. It is a Dell Precision M90 that is fully tricked out with all of the latest technologies that most of us just dream about. So what kind of specs does this bad boy have? Check them out:
