Dell's New X18: 5 Pounds, 18 Inches 138
MojoKid writes "Dell recently combined two trending PC design styles into a single system and called it the XPS 18 Portable All-In-One Desktop. The machine has all the power of an AIO desktop system and some of the portability of a tablet. To be clear, Dell isn't suggesting you'll want to tote this thing across town in ways that you might use an iPad. It's portable in that you can snatch up the 18.4-inch Full HD display from your home office and take it to the living room to switch gears from Google Docs to gaming with the kids, or take it upstairs for some late night surfing before bed. ... The main attraction, however, is that the PC itself is a portable display featuring an 18.4-inch IPS panel with a 1920x1080 resolution and full touch support. Performance-wise the XPS 18 holds its own versus mainstream all-in-one touch PCs, but with added ability to pick the 5 pound system up go virtually anywhere with it on a moment's notice."
This looks horrible (Score:4, Interesting)
Really, its the worst of all worlds.
Re:Apples Tablet Pricing (Score:5, Interesting)
...and its hurting them across the board.
You're talking about the most popular tablet by far.
Ironically the exception was the launch of the original ipad which started at $500 the device closest to this one...and (stupidly) its latest model is still that price.
Of course. Apple typically don't reduce the price of their premium model, they just rev the hardware each year. For example it's double the dpi of the first gen.
But they do sometimes introduce lower priced models. Such as the iPad mini in this case. At $329.
This business model has made them the biggest, highest earning, most successful tech company today. Stupid? No, they know their business far better than you do.
Re:Throw away screen. (Score:3, Interesting)
" The problem is that when the computer becomes outdated, you have to dump a perfectly good screen."
Umm, we have these things called standards. I took a screen from a DV-6000 and threw it into a much older Toshiba Satellite. I'm using that screen right now to read your hilariously wrong words. The best part? I could take this Toshiba apart, and toss it inside my 32" Samsung A550 TV, and using the laptop connector cable plug it right in and it will work. I've done it before with my defunct DV-7 laptop.