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Rumor: New Dell Inspirons Take Shot At Macbook Air, Lenovo X300

While Apple and Lenovo may have started the latest thin laptop trend, Engadget reports that Dell is entering the ring with their Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735. The three laptops are said to share a similar design, with a graduated thickness from 1 to about 1.5 inches. With processors up to Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz, each model will support optional 3G and slot-loading Blu-ray. It sounds good so far, but we'll have to see how competitively they are priced if/when the first of the models hits later this month. [Engadget]

12:50 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Mark Wilson
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Darrone at 12:56 PM on 05/08/08
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Yea, for the size, thats a powerhouse machine. It's gonna be 3k easy.
daftrok at 12:58 PM on 05/08/08
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2.16 GHz? Exactly what type of processors are they using?
Joseph at 12:59 PM on 05/08/08
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Hopefully Dell starts making some funny commercials like Sprint. I still can't stop laughing about that "Hm... somewhere in this ginormous circle" comment. Is that track pad off center?
DucatiGuy at 01:02 PM on 05/08/08
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Regardless, Dell's laptops are infamously shitty... I would take a slower, weaker Lenovo, over a faster more powerful Dell...
xxenclavexx at 01:06 PM on 05/08/08
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One main reason I love apple is the fact that they innovate, then competitors are forced to innovate as well. And the consumer wins!
flyboy at 01:09 PM on 05/08/08
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@xxenclavexx:

umm not always..

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morcheeba at 01:11 PM on 05/08/08
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How did that get called thin? My MacBookPro is 1" wide all over. The thickest parts of the X300 and the Air are both thicker than the thin part of this laptop... in fact, this is about the thickness of an Air stacked on top of an X300!
kibets at 01:14 PM on 05/08/08
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I love the look of the new Dell's!
flyboy at 01:16 PM on 05/08/08
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@morcheeba:

www.thelaptopauthority.com/sony_vaio_x505.html
bms at 01:18 PM on 05/08/08
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Its still a Dell.
flyboy at 01:20 PM on 05/08/08
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@bms:

you can afford it
it works
it has a warranty.
werk at 01:23 PM on 05/08/08
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New Dell Inspirons Take Shot At Macbook Air, Lenovo X300

These are supposed to be 14, 15, and 17" laptops. How in the holy hell are you considering them competition for ultraportables?
ProjectGSX at 01:37 PM on 05/08/08
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I havent heard anything here at Dell regarding these machines being "a shot" at the Macbook Air. At 1.5" thick at the largest point, they arent even in the same ballpark.
rcpmac at 01:38 PM on 05/08/08
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@flyboy:
The newton was innovative for it's time and inspired later PDA's. First gen Newtons used 2nd party handwriting recognition which was so poor that Apple developed their own modification to it called rosetta. Newton's demise was largely due to it's expensive cost and poor reputation of the first gen handwriting recognition being lampooned in the press especially doonesberry. Palm Computing was later co-founded by ex-Apple employee Donna Dubinsky.
Wiki Apple Newton.
aaj111 at 01:43 PM on 05/08/08
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As long as they have ports.
flyboy at 01:51 PM on 05/08/08
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@rcpmac: so you are saying it was a crap product?

that was my point.

They don't always innovate WELL.
lithivm at 01:51 PM on 05/08/08
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[zoom.cnews.ru]

Here's a five year old Sony that looks pretty close to it
lithivm at 01:52 PM on 05/08/08
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[zoom.cnews.ru]

This sony looks just like it....its 5y old
Makkuro at 02:01 PM on 05/08/08
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My 2 year old Sony TZ looks like smaller and thinner, with a DVD burner build-in too. And then there was the Toshiba I seriously considered back then. Wait... who did you said started the "thin laptop" trend again?
enine at 02:27 PM on 05/08/08
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Dell didn't just enter the ring, they have had thin laptops for years. X200, L400, C400, etc.
Kaiser-Machead at 02:28 PM on 05/08/08
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How are these any closer to the Macbook Air and X300 than the M1330?
N@tedog at 02:29 PM on 05/08/08
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@Makkuro: Apple and Lenovo started the thin laptop craze like Ford started the car craze. There were definitely previous players in both cases.
DucatiGuy at 02:31 PM on 05/08/08
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The "car craze" was started long before Ford could even walk in Europe...
N@tedog at 02:33 PM on 05/08/08
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@DucatiGuy: Just an example dude.
notatoad at 02:40 PM on 05/08/08
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the inspiron 1525 also has a graduated design and was released before the macbook air. believe it or not, gizmodo, everything is not an apple rip-off.
calpis at 03:01 PM on 05/08/08
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kinda looks like lenovo's ideapad.
Sleeper_Service at 03:27 PM on 05/08/08
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@Kaiser-Machead:

My thoughts too. Dell already do a light portable with a much better processor than this.
xxenclavexx at 04:12 PM on 05/08/08
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@flyboy: haha yea, the newton.
nwilliam3 at 04:40 PM on 05/08/08
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The size sounds pretty close to my 1525. I think this is just a version upgrade. Maybe they will allow for a better graphics card on this laptop without having to go to the XPS models.
Slaughter at 11:00 PM on 05/08/08
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These are some of the nicest looking Dell's yet. And for the guy that said he would take a slower IBM, your are clueless. Dell is the only company I know of that will send me and part for the computer and let me replace it or buy any internal upgrade that I wish. Try that with an IBM. And Dell's are cheaper on the right day of the week. All laptops are manufactured by some shitty overseas company, so an IBM is no different than a Dell, or HP, ect...