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Dell Shows Off Its Eee PC Rival
Tom Moreland tips us to photos of Dell's answer to the Eee PC on the Direct2Dell site. Dell posted these after an attendee at the D conference spotted Michael Dell carrying one. The company hasn't released any details, so you can take these with a grain of salt — from a commenter to Dell's post: "Here are the specs for the Dell Mini Inspiron: Atom 1.6 GHz, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, Card reader, Kensington lock, Adapter socket, Mic/line-out, VGA port, screen resolution at 1280×800. Scheduled to be released before the end of June 2008. It costs less than $500."
OMG, I have an USB-port on this computer that I'm not currently using! Oh why do they force me to pay for stuff that I don't use?
Just suck it up. If you think that the features and the price are acceptable, then buy it (even if you plan to use a lower resolution). If not, then don't. No-one is forcing you to pay for features you don't need, since you always have the choice of not buying anything.
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Let me clarify what I meant by the "M$ limits for such devices." If my link didn't work, it's because your kludge of a M$ browser doesn't support GOPHER.
Bill Gates is all, like, 640k should be enough for anyone. Depending on the value for k, that can be as little as 640,000. But, 1280x800 is clearly 1,024,000 - much more than 640,000. Thus, it's beyond the M$ limit. And obviously, they're greedy capitalist bourgeois oppressive demon whores for contemplating free XP for only low resolution systems.
And, if Dell knew what the market looked like, they'd be selling marijuana. "Duuuude, you're getting a dellllll...."