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Apple logo defaced by Dell user:
I keep seeing those little Apple stickers appearing over every Dell laptop logo on the campus. It is a disgusting phenomenon.
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Dell should customized/tweaked Ubuntu for their PC/Laptop:
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Hey DELL, Why do not you customized/tweaked Ubuntu to best work with your systems, a practice already adopted for Windows OS. Thanks.
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Dell Inspiron 1721

Serious Fun

Mobile home office or portable entertainment center? Now you don’t have to choose. The Inspiron 1720 and 1721 notebooks pack the power you need for work or play, with a large widescreen display for high definition digital experience, media, photo or video editing, and more.

Express Yourself

Midnight Blue, Jet Black, or Spring Green? You decide. With 8 optional color backs to choose from, optional premium micro satin finishes and coordinating accessories, your new Inspiron notebook is all about you.

Always Connected

Whether you want to do your banking from a café or connect to the world from your favorite city park, the new 17" Inspiron allows you to get online virtually anytime and anywhere.

Hi-Def Life

Use your notebook to explore, create and play with a fully loaded selection of media features including options such as high-definition UltraSharp^TM displays, or an integrated 2 megapixel Webcam.

Smart Services

Whether you demand secure data back-up, rigorously tested quality or smart services and support, Dell has a solution that’s smart, simple, and on your terms.

Dell Inspiron 1501

The Inspiron 1501 is designed for customers looking for a notebook for everyday productivity and entertainment. With its large 15.4" widescreen display featuring optional TrueLife^TM technology you can view documents side-by-side and enjoy your favorite movies and multimedia content. The integrated 3-in-1 memory card reader makes transferring digital photos and music a snap.

Wireless Freedom

The Dell Inspiron 1501 incorporates HyperConnect^TM technology - a portfolio of wireless options providing the freedom to be connected virtually anywhere around the home³. Connect to your favorite hotspot inside or outside the house with integrated WiFi wireless. And with dual HyperBand diversity antennae, you’re set to go for mobile presentations.

The Core

At the core of the Inspiron 1501 is a reliable ATI chipset to handle photos and video with ease. You can upgrade to an optional AMD Turion^TM 64 X2 dual-core processor for increased power and run multiple multimedia applications simultaneously. Configure your 1501 with up to 2GB¹ of shared⁴ DDR2 533MHz memory, from a baseline minimum configuration of 512MB.

The New Dell Notebook Hits

Notebooks below $1,000 may grab your attention, but features can get a bit light. If you're willing to let the price float up a few hundred dollars, you'll get far more for your money. With the Dell Inspiron 5100 desktop replacement notebook ($1,456 direct, as tested), for instance, you get productivity software, decent multimedia abilities, and surprisingly good battery life.

Our unit had a fair-to-good feature set, but included nothing that would push the price anywhere near $2,000. Thus the system came with a 2.4-GHz Pentium 4—the slowest of four processors Dell offers, but still adequate—and 256MB of RAM. The monitor was the midlevel Inspiron offering, 15 inches instead of 14, and XGA not SXGA+. All laptops in the 5100 line have a pair of USB 2.0 ports, a FireWire port, and an S-Video output for a TV set. Ours included 802.11b wireless Ethernet in addition to standard wired Ethernet and a modem, a fixed DVD/CD-RW drive, and a 16MB USB memory key instead of a floppy disk drive.

There's a lot of real estate for showing off the striking finish, done in what Dell calls Moonlight Silver accented by Venice Blue. The system measures 1.8 by 13.1 by 10.8 inches (HWD), has a system weight of 8.2 pounds, and a travel weight with the transformer of 9.5 pounds—hefty even by desktop replacement standards. Some of the bulk comes from the 12-cell, 1.4-pound lithium ion battery; most batteries are 0.9 to 1.1 pounds. Nevertheless, the charge lasted 3 hours 41 minutes on our Business Winstone BatteryMark 2002 test—competing systems are hard-pressed to break 2:30. The 21.4 on Business Winstone 2002 and 29.2 on Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2003 are in line with what we'd expect from a 2.4-GHz P4 processor and about four-fifths of the scores newer Pentium M (Centrino) CPUs deliver.

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The history of Dell

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL SEHK: 4331), an American computer-hardware company based in Round Rock, Texas, develops, manufactures, sells and supports personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, personal digital assistants (PDAs), software, televisions, computer peripherals and other technology-related products. As of 2006, Dell employed more than 78,700 people worldwide. Formerly holding a substantial lead in sales of PCs and of servers^{[citation needed]}, the company recently slipped behind Hewlett-Packard (HP) in these markets^{[citation needed]}.

In 2006, Fortune magazine ranked Dell as the 25th-largest company in the Fortune 500 list, 8th on its annual Top 20 list of the most-admired companies in the United States. A 2006 publication identified Dell as one of 38 high-performance companies in the S&P 500, which consistently out-performed the market over the previous 15 years.

Origins and evolution

While a student at the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, Michael Dell founded the company as PC's Limited with just $1000^[2]. Operating from Michael Dell's off-campus dorm room at Dobie Center [6], the startup aimed to sell IBM-compatible computers built from stock components. Michael Dell started trading in the belief that by selling personal computer systems directly to customers, PC's Limited could better understand customers' needs and provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs. Michael Dell dropped out of school in order to focus full-time on his fledgling business.

In 1985, the company produced the first computer of its own design (the "Turbo PC"), which contained an Intel 8088-compatible processor running at a speed of 8 MHz. PC's Limited advertised the systems in national computer magazines for sale directly to consumers, and custom-assembled each ordered unit according to a selection of options. This offered buyers prices lower than those of retail brands, but with greater convenience than assembling the components themselves. Although not the first company to use this model, PC's Limited became one of the first to succeed with it. The company grossed more than $73 million in its first year.

In 1989, PC's Limited set up its first on-site-service programs in order to compensate for the lack of local retailers prepared to act as service centers. Also in 1987, the company set up its first operations in the United Kingdom; eleven more international operations followed within the next four years. In June 1988, Dell's market capitalization grew by $30 million to $80 million from its initial public offering of 3.5 million shares at $8.50 a share. The company changed its name to "Dell Computer Corporation" in 1988.

In 1990, Dell Computer Corporation tried selling its products indirectly through warehouse-clubs and computer-superstores, but met with little success, and the company re-focused on its more successful direct-to-consumer sales model. In 1992, Fortune magazine included Dell Computer Corporation in its list of the world's 500 largest companies.

In 1996, Dell began selling computers via its web site.