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Dell Introduces Laptop With WUXGA
Cutie Pi writes "Dell has just released the Inspiron 8500, a new 15.4" widescreen notebook with a WUXGA screen--thats 1920x1200, high enough resolution to watch HDTV quality movies. Couple that with the new nVidia 64MB GeForce4 4200 Go (much faster than the ATI Radeon 9000), and you've got quite a notebook!! Can't wait to get my hands on one!"
You realize some geeks are going to use this resolution to view more text on the screen at once and lose their eyesight that much faster, don't you?
and weighs as much, too! 6.9 lbs w/o a media drive!! and 1.5" thick. I'll keep my TiBook (or even a new 17" AlBook), thank you very much. :)
With a screen at that resolution, I just might be able to view an entire slashdot advertisement at once. Wow, no scrolling for me.
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
Was it put together by "The Customizer"?
Apple Called... They want their laptop design from 2 years ago back.
Ads for nerds. Shit that we can't afford.
There is no excuse for a 7 pound 15in notebook.
I once beat a man to death in Reno* using nothing but a Dell laptop.
*just to watch him die
Maybe I can get a headband-mount for it, that'll get the chicks to come a-runnin'.
Sweet, a new computer from Dell. Does it come with a free sample of Marijuana? Dude, you're gettin' some weed!
Ok, that's just cruel.
For every post, there is an equal and opposite re-post.
With a screen that big and a video card that powerful, imagine the battery life that you'l
Thanks for the 'news', but I'm not in the market for a laptop right now.
And if I was, I'd have found this information myself.
BTW, I'm trying to sell an old waterbed. Do you mind if I stick a flyer up on the homepage? Thanks.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Compare these two photos:
Inspiron 8500
PowerBook G4
I know, I know... it's just the bottom of the machine, but you gotta love style.
"notebook with a WUXGA screen"
Call me back when you have an Awooogah screen.
I want to use it on my submarine.
When I got my current job, it came with a Dell laptop (Inspiron 5000 series) with a DVD drive. Whee!
On my first business trip, I found out that the battery was enough to watch about 66% of a DVD.
Later that year, I found out that my battery was being recalled, but they'd apologize by giving me two batteries in return -- double-Whee! Now I would have enough battery life to watch a full flick.
I just have to pop out the DVD drive to install the second battery.
Dell: Weight: 6.9 lbs. (2.96 kg) with travel module, battery and Harddrive.
Apple: Weight: 6.8 pounds (3.1 kg) with battery and optical drive installed.
Interesting trick. The Apple weighs more if you use metric measurements!
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
Cool!
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
I seriously just dropped a chunk of change on the baddest ass 8200 money could buy yesterday and now those bastards come out with the 8500 with a better video card?
Ass-hats oops, can I say that?
I'm sorry, but that high of a resolution on a 15in monitor seems kind of idiotic to me. Everything would be tini-tiny, it would only be good for watching DVDs.
Dell should of produced a 17in 1440-900 laptop like Apple. That'd be a hell of a lot cooler.
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Damn, I have to do something about this dyslexia. I thought you said "I'm happier than a bishop in amsterdam with three thumbs up my ASS."
It's going to be a while before I forget that thought.
Oldmanrant
I used to carry a Mac SE with a jerry-rigged hard drive home every night from work on the train. The damn thing was 35 pounds by the time it was in the bag.
I was happy when we switched to the Compaq Portables. Happy, I tell you!
Oh yeah, we ate sand.
/Oldmanrant
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
Soooo....., the possibilities are narrowed. Fired NASA engineers either go to work for Apple, or Dell.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.