Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on November 19, 2007 by CyberNet.

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.

That magic price tag can also save you a lot of frustration if you were planning on getting one of the similarly priced laptops being offered the day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday). You can order the Dell from the comfort of your own home without needing to sit in line for countless hours, just to find out that you didn’t get to the store early enough. We’ve been there and done that, and I would much rather have ordered online than sit in line.

And the specs? For the price I was rather surprised at how good they were:

• AMD AthlonTM 64 X2 Dual-Core processor TK-53 (1.7GHz/512KB)
• 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Anti-Glare Display
• 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ, 2 Dimm
• 120GB 5400RPM Hard Drive
• 8X DVD+/-RW w/Double-layer DVD+R Write Capability
• ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory™ (integrated)
• Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Wi-Fi Mini Card

It’s important to note that this laptop is available through the Dell Small Business site, but under their terms it seems like anything qualifies for Small Business. I’ve ordered from the Small Business section for years, and when asked for the name of the company I just use my own name. I’ve never been questioned about it. Heck, if you sell stuff on eBay every now and then it’s practically a “side” business.

Note: Shipping is free, but taxes will be applied.

Vostro 1000 Laptop with Windows XP Home or with Vista Home Basic
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John Thode, Dell’s Vice President for mobile devices, has shared a Honeycomb-flavored snippet of his company’s tablet roadmap with CNET. The 10-inch Android tablet that we saw at CES and suspected could be with us this month will indeed be making its debut in the summer, according to Thode, but its launch market will be China, not the US. He points to a number of “inhibitors and barriers to success” in Dell’s homeland — such as mobile carriers dictating pricing models that stifle the adoption of tablets and users being unaware of “what exactly Android is bringing” — as the causes for Round Rock’s atypical decision. The Streak 10 Pro, as it’ll officially be known, comes with a Honeycomb-standard 1280 x 800 resolution screen, an edge-to-edge glass surface, two cameras (one of them reaching a 5 megapixel res), an SD card slot, a thickness of 12mm, and 1080p video playback capabilities courtesy of an unspecified NVIDIA Tegra dual-core processor. An additional dock will allow the 10 Pro to act as a USB host, while augmenting its connectivity with HDMI, Ethernet, and, obviously, a set of USB ports. The US may still get to enjoy this bounty of options, but we’re told it won’t happen until 2012. By which point we’ll probably have a taste for fresher, icier versions of Android.

Update: Dell has confirmed all of the foregoing in a blog post.

Dell Streak 10 Pro tablet to launch in China this summer, US may get it next year originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember how Microsoft unveiled that whole “Windows 8” thing earlier today? It’s back for more: here at Computex 2011 in Taipei, prototype ARM-based Windows 8 slates and smartbooks are coming out of the woodwork. Foxconn, Wistron and Quanta all unveiled early hardware for the new OS, with chips from Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and NVIDIA powering their live tiles — including NVIDIA’s upcoming Kal-El, which got both a tablet and a super-slim prototype notebook to call its own. Dell’s also got a XPS development station up on stage, which Microsoft used to demo the UI — it’s bulky and ugly as such things are, but it suggests that Dell’s also likely to have a portable Windows 8 machine at some point. For its part, Qualcomm is promising a chip that can instantly wake from sleep, and one of the devices showed that USB host support works fine and dandy. Unfortunately, none of these machines will make their way to market, but it’s nice to know that the OEMs care enough to show their solidarity here.

Update: Video now added after the break.

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Microsoft reveals ARM-powered Windows 8 prototypes (eyes-on) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’ve been following along, you know that a phone enthusiast named DJ_Steve has kept the Dell Streak fresh, thanks to a series of hacked ROMs, dubbed StreakDroid. The latest version, 2.0.0 (or GingerStreak, if you’re feeling cute) brings Gingerbread to the 5-inch smartphone — expanding on the last ROM, which gave hackers the option of selecting Gingerbread’s app launcher. As always, though, dear Steve has noted a handful of bugs in the ROM’s early stages, including issues with the Superuser app, less-than-stellar graphics performance, and the fact that both GPS and 720p video recording require an engineering baseband and DSP to be flashed. As of this writing, all of the comments are from Streak owners eager to download this for themselves. We assume you are, too, so let us know how the new ROM works out for ya.

StreakDroid 2.0.0 gives the gift of Gingerbread to Streak hackers originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 May 2011 01:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft this morning added Acer, Fujitsu and ZTE to its stable of Windows Phone hardware partners, but look at that image above and you’ll find one name missing. Yes, Michael Dell’s surname is a notable absentee from the group of Mango manufacturers, which prompted us to reach out to someone in charge to see what’s what. A Microsoft rep informed us that the company has nothing to announce on that front at present, but urged us to “stay tuned,” whatever that may mean. If you’re wondering where Nokia is, fret not, it’s still very much in Microsoft’s future plans, it just got a separate mention. As to Dell? Not a peep in the entire keynote. This comes only a day after a Wall Street Journal article mentioned Dell’s intention to reduce its presence in the consumer market and focus on its enterprise strengths — could an abandonment of Windows Phone be one of those steps?

Update: Dell is not off the list of WP7 hardware manufacturers. Microsoft told us that the Round Rock gang simply isn’t one of the “partners ready to go” do the Mango tango right now.

Dell curiously missing from Windows Phone ‘Mango’ hardware partner list, Microsoft says ‘stay tuned’ (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 May 2011 11:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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