Dell shows Its 81 percent Smallest Mini Desktop Ever

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Dell’s tiny new PC may bring attention back to desktops.

Dell CEO Michael Dell on Tuesday previewed what he called “the company’s smallest and most environmentally-responsible consumer desktop PC.” Dell previewed the desktop as part of Earth Day at the Fortune Brainstorm conference being held in Pasadena, California.

The small form-factor desktop is 81 percent smaller and uses up to 70 percent less energy than a typical desktop mini-tower, said Anne Camden, a Dell spokeswoman.

She declined comment on hardware specifications, brand name or pricing. Details will be released later this year when the desktop is released.
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The desktop, which stands on a holder, will come in recycled and recyclable packaging, Camden said.

It will most likely compete with Apple’s Mac Mini and Everex’s MyMiniPC, mini desktops with full computing capabilities designed to save desk space.

Inspiron 1525, Dell Blu-ray laptop for $879

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Dell tells us as it launches a Blu-ray laptop for under a $1,000.

The Inspiron 1525 is Dell’s affordable consumer offering with a 15.4-inch high definition wide aspect display with 720p resolution – that won’t show you the best of the Bu-ray experience to be fair – but there is an HDMI port for connectivity to high resolution displays and HDTVs.

The Blu-ray player disc drive is fully backwards compatible, and will play as well as burn traditional DVDs and CDs while a Blu-ray burner drive is also available, at extra cost.

Available today on dell.com, (and apparently coming to Europe but no sign as yet on the site) BD-lovers can get the Inspiron 1525 with optional Blu-ray disc playback starting at $879.

 

source:pocket-lint

XFR D630 Dell’s first fully ruggedized notebook

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The Latitude XFR D630 is Dell’s first fully ruggedized notebook. Designed for outstanding performance in virtually any environment, the XFR meets strict military standards for extreme conditions, MIL-810F.

The Latitude XFR D630 meets environmental challenges by offering a variety of innovative usability options, including:

* Industry’s first fully rugged 14.1″ wide-aspect LCD with DirectVue(tm) technology
* Optional touch screen supports finger, gloved or passive stylus inputs
* Next generation performance with Intel®  CoreTM  2 Duo processors

The rugged laptop, intended for government and commercial customers, is available now in the US and starts at $3,899.

source:dell

Google and Dell to announce gPhone hardware?

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Marketing Week reports that “speculation is mounting that Google is plotting the launch of a mobile phone in partnership with computer giant Dell”.

Citing “senior industry sources” the site says that the two companies are due to reveal their plans to the world at next month’s 3GSM event in Spain.

The first handsets are expected this year running Google’s “Android” mobile phone operating system, but Dell has not previously been hotly tipped to be one of the first manufacturers to market.

Pocket-lint will be attending 3GSM and will bring you all the news from the event as it happens.

source:sky 

Dell, Microsoft Team on Product Red PCs !

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Dell and Microsoft are teaming up to release a Product Red computer, donating up to US$80 for every one sold to fund AIDS-fighting drugs in Africa.

Dell will start selling two (Red) laptops and one desktop running Microsoft Windows Vista on Friday. The two companies will donate US$50 for a laptop and US$80 for a desktop to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.

(Red), founded by U2 singer Bono and Bobby Shriver, works to develop co-branded products with companies such as Motorola, Apple and Gap, which then donate a portion of the proceeds for antiretroviral drugs.

Microsoft said it expects “several hundred thousand” (Red) Dell PCs to be sold in 2008. The PCs, designed in part by Bono, will have a distinctive red casing and the Windows interface will feature a red background and sidebar.

“My job is to put some poetry in the machine, put some funk in the machines,” Bono said in an interview with Reuters.

(Red) has raised US$53 million for the Global Fund since it was founded in 2006. Bono, who expects to exceed that figure in 2008 alone, said the organisation lost some potential partners after a critical article in Advertising Age questioned the effectiveness of the campaign.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who provided some of the seed money for (Red), defended the group, saying it has saved lives that would have otherwise been lost.

“I guess you can criticise even life-saving activities. I don’t know how, but if somebody has a better idea than (Red) to save more lives, we are all ears,” said Gates in an interview. “I put it in the category of a creative use of capitalism.”

Gates, Dell and Bono are expected to announce the partnership formally this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The Dell products offered under the (Red) brand will be a XPS One desktop and XPS M1330 and M1530 laptop computers. The products will sell for the same price as regular Dell models.

The computers will go on sale Jan. 25 in the U.S. and then the product will be available in 30 countries on Jan 31

Source: itnews