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I finally bought a new laptop last week.  I had been working off a Dell Studio XPS 16 for almost three years. When I purchased the Dell, my biggest concern was performance and size – I essentially wanted a desktop replacement, and I got it.  The “big Dell” (as I’ve come to call it) was [...]

Last year, on this date, we posted that Dell was going to start selling Ubuntu-powered machines. We said: Is this the moment desktop Linux proponents have been waiting for all these years? This story came up in the “On This Day” section in the sidebar this morning, and I got to wondering about it. I [...]

Microsoft says XP is definitely dead in June, Dell says it’ll keep installing it: Dell has found a loophole in Vista licensing which it plans to exploit in order to keep selling XP machines. Dell’s going to report a Vista sale to Microsoft, but deliver an XP box with Vista upgrade DVD to customers. (That [...]

I know this is late, and you’ve probably already heard, but today Apple cut loose the new Mac Pro — the successor to the G5 Power Macintosh. Prices start at $2,199 for a dual-processor, dual-core 2GHz machine. An extra $1,100 will replace the 2GHz Xeons with 3GHz processors. The exterior looks just like the G5 [...]

XML Paper Specification: Overview: XPS is Microsoft’s planned competitor to PDF. I wonder if Dell is miffed about the name? The XML Paper Specification describes the XPS Document format. A document in XPS Document format (XPS Document) is a paginated representation of electronic paper described in an XML-based format. The XPS Document format is an [...]

I’m not sure if this is new or not, but I’ve never seen it before. I was buying a machine from Dell today, and they’re now giving the option to get “standard” reinstallation media for an extra $10. This is really good, because I despise the “Recovery CDs” that come with most OEM machines. The [...]

[H]ard|OCP – Dell Dimension XPS 400 Evaluation: This is a review of Dell’s “gaming PC” line — the XPS. The review turns into an huge rant about how much crap is installed on a Dell out of the box. These pop-ups were so annoying, and seemed very much like a spyware infection, that we downloaded [...]

I saw something yesterday about a new computer that Sony just released — the VIAO VA TV-PC — and my first thought was, “Great. Another cheap iMac G5 knockoff.” Then I saw the price. $1,999.99 for the 17” model and $2,199.99 for the 20”. Crimony! Compare that to the iMacs at $1,299 and $1,699 (no [...]

For fun, I pimped out one of the new “luxury” Dell XPS machines to see how high I could get it. First I had to set some ground rules: No peripherals (tower, mouse, keyboard only), or else it’s too easy. No monitor either — those LCDs get expensive. No software beyond the operating system. No [...]