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Due Next Year: Dell's 19-inch Laptop
WheelRunner writes "Engadget is running a story about Dell's new 19-inch laptop. Sadly, it's too late for the only lap that could hold it, Marlon Brando's." Maybe if Apple would put a keyboard-containing lid (and a briefcase-style handle) on the 20" iMac, a market for car-battery backpacks would emerge.
If you must post fat jokes to the front page, could you at least make sure they're funny?
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Imagine some cretin in the cattle-class seats on a jet trying to open one of these things up.
"Excuse me, mind if I take over some of your very limited personal space?"
"No, mind if my baby pukes on you keyboard?"
At some point I expect these things to come with telescoping legs so you could actually use it as a portable desk.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Dell doesn't do design work, they do integration work. This pretty much proves it, though I'm sure the 5 or so that will be sold (all to CEOs and CIOs) will make excellent conversation pieces. :-)
The heat from below can burn your eyes out
made in India for 200$ or less?
or is it just tech-supported there?
When Apple does it, it ROXORS! When DELL does it, it sucks.
The massive laptop is actually part of a new chipset design by Intel - with the success of the small and light Centrino design, Intel wants to persue the larger laptop market as well. The new chipset, the Overcompenson is expected to do well among groups that purchase expensive sports cars, Hummer H2s, and respond positively to Enzyte commercials.
I got a 19" Laptop.... IN MY PANTS!
Here is a friend's prediction of 2007's Powerbook 30"
I think Dell's going by the military's definition of "portable" which is any piece of equipment that can be moved by two soldiers. It's also sometimes used to refer to any piece of equipment that can be moved by a HMMT. You know, like a portable PATRIOT launcher.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
Nothing builds character like a heavy duty Sun workstation carefully balanced on one's lap. To say nothing of more resilient balls.
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They already have made cases which can hold 19" hardware - my pants!
I have a short wooden leg, you see. Being a pirate and all...
Yup go ahead, she needs bigger anyway.
Umm... http://the-def.de/uploads/pro-noob.jpg
To prevent this day from getting worse, I'll just read ERROR as GOOD TH
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Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
"Excuse me, mind if I take over some of your very limited personal space?"
"No, mind if my baby pukes on you keyboard?"
It's especially fun to recline your seat when someone has one of those open behind you and is going on about how important he is.
Crunch.
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Everybody is screaming about 19" being "too big". Am I the only member of Slashdot who can lift something heavier than a book? I mean, Jezus people... if you're too wimpy to carry around a tiny little thing like this, get yourself to a gym (or a doctor) immediately. I, for one, would *love* to get a few of these things if I could justify the $$.
I don't respond to AC's.
You've obviously never dealt with their customer service dept.
Everybody is screaming about 19" being "too big".
This is Slashdot, a predominantly male-oriented site. Guys are used to screaming "too big!" at any mention of something larger then 6".
That's not true. Orson Welles could also have supported Dell's 19incher.
I want a 19 inch in my laptop, running Debian Woody.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
I don't know about you, but I'm going to wait for the 23" or 30" model. 19" is just too small, for a laptop.