Dell

Dell is planning to try and sell their manufacturing plants here in the U.S. and also located in other countries. What is disturbing about the news is this statement:
Other factories could close
What this basically means is more jobs could be lost here in the U.S. if Dell is unable to locate a buyer. In […]

Dell has finally released their much anticipated mini-9 netbooks that currently come in 3 models.
A Linux box starts at $349 and comes with a smallish SSD hard disk at only 4GB in size. Next comes a Windows XP system with 8GB of storage at $399. Both the Linux and Windows systems have 512 […]

Dell has announced an extended warranty plan for certain laptop systems that use the NVIDIA GPS chips. On the Dell blog site the extended warranties apply to these models:
Dell will offer a 12-month limited warranty enhancement specific to this issue. For all customers worldwide, we plan to add 12 months of coverage for this issue […]

Dell vs Apple. Sounds kind of strange when you say it. But this might just be the case since it appears that Dell will use Zing [software that is] to do a Dell Tunes venture. But why would Dell want to do Tunes in the first place? Dell sees a possible venture which will include […]

I know that some of you have responded negatively when it comes to Best Buy and the products they service and how they handle customer support. But Best Buy must be doing something right. Dell the once only on line retailer has chosen Best Buy to sell their computer systems and now Apple is giving […]

Over at Direct2Dell they have announced a new series of business laptop computers that Dell says are going to knock our socks off. After reading some of the specifications, especially the extended battery life [19 hours], these new machines could change the way we lappy users do business. On the light side is the 12″ […]

Intel has announced it will be releasing a series of new mid-range chips which include a larger L2 cache for better performance. Front side BUS speed will be at 1333MHz and the chips will use 95 watts of power. According to this article, the new chips are already available:
Several retailers already have the new processors […]

Dell continues to amaze me in that they are now expanding their offer of Linux based computer systems. The once Windows only OEM is now offering Ubuntu 8.04 on the following models:
Dell Inspiron 530N
Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor E2180 (1MB, 2.00GHz, 800FSB)
Ubuntu 8.04 with DVD Playback
19 inch SE198WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel Monitor
16x DVD+/-RW Drive
Starting at […]

Over the years I have fixed or repaired many a computer system, involving all hardware from RAM to motherboards. On laptop systems I basically limited myself to adding RAM, replacing a hard disk and a CD/DVD player. So this morning when I read this article over at PC World about replacing a laptop video display […]

Dell is trying to obtain a trademark patent on the term ‘cloud computing’  and has filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s. Apparently the Dell request has survived the first part of the application process and is now in the challenge process of a trademark registration. The challenge process allows others time […]