Dell Lineup of 2006

Last edited by A_Pickle on Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:54 pm; edited 1 time in total

Dell has a fascinating lineup set for 2006. My choice favorite among the new products featured on this page is the XPS Laptop Design Concept. Featuring a 20.1\" 11ms LCD screen. The actual model, I imagine, would contain a Yonah processor with a Geforce Go 7800 GTX.

I like it a lot because I've been wanting PC makers (secretly, I've been wanting Dell) to come out and design something truly unique to snub Apple's product lineup. Those dang Mac fans always reiterate Apple's marketing about the Mac platform being, \"Secure, stylish, stable and speedy.\" Well, Macs are generally completely unprotected from online malware. Stability-wise, OS X is not computing nirvana, in fact I'd argue it's the operating system from hell. Speed-wise, G4's are slower than a frozen turtle going uphill, and G5's are essentially even if perhaps a bit slower than PC equivalents...

...so the only argument those Mac fans had was style. And now, finally, perhaps not massively, but sufficiently, we have a truly unique, high-performance, good-looking model. Hopefully Dell can put a competitive price-performance pricetag on it.

-Pikl

yea i also am very interested in the XPS concept is looks very nice/lets hope so

Last edited by Greg M. on Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:05 pm; edited 1 time in total

Dell sucks!

Nah, but I still hate them.

For the sub $700 PC, they make some dang good computers.  I would prefer to go with custom/ABS/Hypersonic if I was going to get a gaming computer... not because of the quality, but because of the price.

I'm sure the new \"Quad SLI\" system will have a sky high price.  Not to mention it will be paired with a P4, instead of a 4800+ dual core.  It's a shame :(

As far as styling, I'm not a fan of Dell.  They all look \"office-y\" or like their trying too hard to me.

Their monitors look alright, but not nearly as sleek as apple.  However, they are amazing considering the prices.

That \"laptop\" scares me!

yea i like dells and yea its going to be EXPENCIVE but its nice to dream and to know its out there and it is a shame [p4 not 4800+dual core] lol i never thought of it as scary

The case on that Renegade looks nice. :)

true true but i also like this XPS dezign just as well i think is pretty cool but maby it could be less bussiness-y and more modern-ish

has any price for it been relased or leaked yet? cause i havent heard any like number ammount

I can only imagine in the 4K range, at least.

thats what i was thinking around ill like never have enough to buy it lol but its nice to dream eh?

Yeah, I guess so.
I'd rather build my own comp if I had 4K to spend. It would be TONS better than any dell could be.

yea but u and i know this world is jacked full of greed

A 20.1\" laptop? I think they're running out of lap space.

lol mydrall i think thats like all of my lap space and u watch the screens will keep getting bigger

I dunno. The XPS 600 Renegade is nice... but... nyeh... it's gonna be ridiculously expensive. SLI on it's own pisses me off, let alone quad-SLI. Whoever calls any of that \"technology\" needs their head examined. SLI doubles the space and power required to operate, and in return you achieve maybe a 70% performance increase.

One graphics card is plenty, and respectfully, if we want to talk about greed, it's all over at Electronic Arts and other game making studios. They don't need more available system resources with which to abysmally misuse with game titles that are badly coded due to their being forcefully rushed (prior to optimization) to the market. Why is it that I purchase an ATI Radeon 9600 XT in 2003, and that gives me enough graphics \"umph\" to last me into 2005 with high settings, but then I purchase an X800 XL in July of 2005, and I'm unable to make it past November without a game release that my card struggles to play at higher settings?

F.E.A.R. is a prime example of this, right next to it's bed buddy Doom 3. These two games are not technological triumphs in game programming, they're overtaxing ones designed to \"make use of\" the two graphics cards now available to them. One card struggles on BOTH games. yet my 9600 XT is more than capable of playing Half-Life 2, released AFTER Doom 3? Hell, my 9600 XT is currently making itself useful on a Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz system with 512 MB of RAM, and IT CAN PLAY LOST COAST. :angry:

I dunno. I refuse to subscribe to this \"technology.\"

The laptop, like the rest of Dell's laptops, I think is incredible. As I said, it's nice to see a truly unique laptop design come from a PC maker. Hell, Apple's laptops are simple and nice-looking, but even they aren't terribly unique. Dell might have something going with this, that \"laptop\" looks... wow. Looks incredible. It'd be half-embarrassing and half-awe-inspiring to carry that thing into your college classroom for some... uh... \"note taking.\" Hehe.

Whee. This year I'm going to be looking to buy a laptop, but I dunno if I'll be able to have a Yonah-powered one. I intend to spend well in excess of $2,500, possibly all the way up to $3,500 on my laptop, and so... if I get one, I might be able to order one with Merom in it. Of course, Merom will be dual-core, 64-bit, have 2 and maybe 4 MB of L2 cache and at least a 1066 MHz front side bus. I can't complain. :D

Guess I should get used to calling Yonah a \"Core Duo\" now... that name is kind of like Windows Vista. The first thing I thought of when I heard both names was, \"Ghey.\" But now, both Vista and \"Core Duo\" have kinda grown on me. I wonder if Merom will re-implement the Pentium M name. I don't particularly care -- they just better make Conroe the Pentium V, and Woodcrest better remain a Xeon. Good names.