Dell's "Lexus" Line
Dell released its "Lexus" Line this week. If it seems familiar to you, it is. Their new "brand" consisted of renaming the Dimension 5100C the XPS 200, the Dimension 9100 is now XPS 400, the current XPS tower is the XPS 600, and the XPS notebook is now the XPS M170 combine that with an upgraded level of service that should have been there in the first place. Real innovative Mike.
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Originally posted by BenRoethig
only because everyone and their mother has a dell.
...and their mothers, and their employers etc. etc. etc.
Originally posted by Placebo
Seriously though, the hardware support on Dell laptops for Mac OS X is unbelievable. The volume keys work, the nub-mouse-mover thing works, the power button brings up the power options window like it does on a Powerbook, it goes to sleep when you close the lid.
I'm sure Apple will screw it up somehow when the final version comes out.
Originally posted by Placebo
Seriously though, the hardware support on Dell laptops for Mac OS X is unbelievable. The volume keys work, the nub-mouse-mover thing works, the power button brings up the power options window like it does on a Powerbook, it goes to sleep when you close the lid.
So Hacked OSX on Dell runs better than Legal Windows XP?
Who knows. They are both going against MSFT and intel with BluRay vs HD-DVD.
Someone should seriously get all these companies in a room together and make them take a vote on a single high definition optical disk format. If both BluRay and HD-DVD come to market its going to be a quagmire.
Originally posted by BenRoethig
All x86 hardware is being held back by windows. Dual core technology would scream on OSX.
Someone should seriously get all these companies in a room together and make them take a vote on a single high definition optical disk format. If both BluRay and HD-DVD come to market its going to be a quagmire.
yah, i do not like this disk thing. Both technologies seem fine enough but i do not want to invest in one if it will lose. Maybe then, after the room, they can all get apple to make thier stuff generic.
good for gamers having more options.
Originally posted by sunilraman
hmm... proprietary liquid cooling as well, if i am not mistaken...
they don't do that proprietary RAM anymore do they?
All x86 hardware is being held back by windows. Dual core technology would scream on OSX....
agreed
Originally posted by BenRoethig
All x86 hardware is being held back by windows. Dual core technology would scream on OSX.
You're assuming that MacOS X 10.4 in its current form is finely grained enough to truely take advantage of dual core; the benchmarks have already shown that not to be the case with generic SMP setups.
MacOS X still has a long way to go in regards to finegrainess; considering that until recently MacOS X only had two giant locks; and although things have improved, there is still a long way to go; lets *HOPE* that Apple is going to concerntrate on making their operating system more scalable in their next release rather than adding any pointless eye candy.
hmmm... pointless eye candy? that would more likely be that other company releasing a certain longhorned operating system at the end of next year
but yeah seriously though there has definitely been alot of threading discussions going on on these boards re: mach microkernel ~~ i'd venture though that since according to some reports apple is lusting hard after intel's dualcore offerrings, they'll look at threading very carefully leading up to the macintel unveiling.
they simply cannot afford getting beat down by benchmarks running important windows or linux apps on exactly the same hardware.
the first macintel powerbook will most likely be dualcore, is my shot in the dark.