Do A Deal With Tesco (www.tesco.com)
Advertising and Marketing, Sales Strategies submitted by aikiwolfie
11/17/07 **IMPLEMENTED**
Tesco are the biggest if not one of the biggest supermarket chains here in the UK. They buy in electricals in bulk and sell them cheap. Cheap PCs with a decent spec will sell like hot cakes. I just bought a 40" TV for £500 in store. I don't know what the price would be in the US but here that's an amazing prince. Similar products were £1000+.
The more people using Dells the better.
Please see our Direct2Dell blog about retail expansion in Europe and Asia.
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Offer More Broadband Carriers for built in cellphone Signal Internet
Broadband and Mobility, Laptops submitted by agazza2
11/16/07
Currently on Notebooks you can select to add the optional broadband service to have Internet access anywhere you have cellphone coverage. The only providers you can choose from are Sprint, Cingular(At&T), and Verizon. I would like to see the Broadband service (built in card) being offered by T-mobile, which offers a lower priced monthly plan. You could also offer various other providers.
Or offer a unlocked card that supports various SIM cards that could be added by the user. I am looking at the XPS 1330 and would like to have this option for T-Mobile.
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Michael Dell, boost customer and IdeaStorm relations by...
Dell Community, IdeaStorm submitted by phubert
11/15/07
Michael Dell, on your next visit to India, PLAN to drop-in on active IdeaStorm participants from India: premcv and Petzy!
Many of us at IdeaStorm would appreciate this!
I think YOU would benefit from meeting such outstanding and supportive individuals.
They are participating here constructively and faithfully.
It would further cement Dell relations with India and India staff.
WE think they're great and Petzy, especially, thinks YOU'RE great!!
As @sugarbear suggested in a comment:
** consider at least SENDING A LETTER ***
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Restore disk for Ubuntu
Linux submitted by limerat
11/13/07
People who use Windows get a restore disk,people who use Linux should get a restore disk as well.
I just bought a Dell last week...The update manager stopped working in Ubuntu.. So I went to the Ubuntu forums and pasted in the correction into the terminal which should have fixed the problem.-
It did not work.
I reinstalled the OS.
The machine would no longer go on line.
I finally end up at Dell tec support for Linux where I'm told there are missing drivers..So since Dell already knows about this,why are the drivers not installed on Ubuntu or supplied on a recovery disk,along with instructions for people new to Linux?
Anyway, I'm sent to a web page to download the drivers. Lucky for me a friend has let me borrow her computer,or I'd be up the creek without a paddle. I have yet to burn the disk though,as I'm only a guest on said computer.
I have to wonder who else this has happened to and if they can't download the drivers,what have they done? Have they set the machine on the curb for trash pickup?
This foul up is going to make a lot of people really unhappy and Dell needs to have fixed this before they decided to load Linux on their first box. There is no excuse for such inept sloppiness on the part of a professional company.
Had I known about this, I NEVER would have bought a Dell.
Anyway,I just so you know,Dell did provide a video drivers disk with Ubuntu...The problem was the disk had only Windows drivers....Which is useless..
Somebody at Dell needs to get a clue.
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No OS Preloaded
Linux, Operating Systems, Sales Strategies submitted by agreer
02/17/07 **PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED**
I have a XP Pro retail copy, will soon buy retail vista, I also like Linux: Make WINDOWS-FREE, and OS-Free an option for more than just expensive business lines.
Dell has systems available that do not have an OS pre-loaded called N-Series line. You can check them out at www.dell.com/nseries.
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Linux Customer Survey
Dell Web Site, Linux submitted by aikiwolfie
11/12/07
I've noticed Dell likes it's on-line surveys. So why hasn't one been done for Linux? If it has can we see the results?
Conduct an on-line survey of customers asking them if they have;
1 ) Heard of Linux?
2 ) Used Linux in the past?
3 ) Intend to use Linux in the future?
4 ) Currently use Linux?
5 ) What are/were the systems specs of the PC Linux was installed on?
6 ) Which distributions have they used?
7 ) Which distribution do they prefer?
8 ) Why did they stop using Linux?
9 ) What problems have they encountered using Linux?
10 ) If they haven't heard of Linux, what do they think Linux is?
11 ) Do they want to buy Dell PCs with Linux installed?
12 ) List the applications you use the most on Linux.
13 ) Are there any applications you would like moved to the Linux platform that are not currently offered on Linux.
14 ) Is there any particular piece of hardware you'd like to see supported in Linux?
15 ) Would you like to see better hardware virtualization support, better bleeding edge support and better thread handling (processors are hardware too)
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Start offering DELL products to the general public in Poland
Dell, Linux, Sales Strategies submitted by lukasz.wisniewski
11/12/07
According to today's local newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza [1], by 20th November, 11:30 to be more exact, Dell will just have manufactured their first notebook in Lodz, Poland. Unfortunately, even though I am inhabitant of this city, it is more than unlikely I will buy DELL notebook anytime soon.
Firstly, the current policy of your company in Poland is "Only for enterprises and institutions" (original in Polish: Tylko dla firm i instytucji). Such a approach seems to me to be more than just bizarre. Do you happen to realize Poland is something like 38 milions of your potential customers? Just for instance, in my city, there are two big public universities, several private ones - you see the universities but not the students. Is this of your concern? I guess not but Apple is already there offering discounts for students.
Secondly, start distributing preinstalled Ubuntu for Poland as well. I actually do not see the point why you do this in UK, Germany or France and not in Poland. People of Poland are more eager to install open-source products, just let me remind you that according to XiTi monitor [2] open-source Firefox browser has market share of 39.6% in Poland, whereas in Germany - 38%, France - 23.9% and UK just 18.7%.
Thirdly, by preinstalling Ubuntu I mean making it an option anywhere where there is an OS selection option on your website. I clearly see no reason in the world why you keep offering such a miserable Ubuntu notebook in Europe instead of something more powerful - Inspiron 6400n with Intel T2130 processor. In your opinion, how impressive is that nowadays?
Last but not least, DELL, please stop participating in this devoid of good sense campaign "Dell recommends Vista..." which is sarcastic. You really do not have to put down this sentence on your website as in Poland you force people to use Vista leaving no other choice.
Take all these remarks under your consideration unless it is OK with you that Poles should travel to Germany in order to buy your notebooks. Hear our voice, DELL!
Signed,
Lukasz Wisniewski
student of the Computer Science
Technical University of Lodz
Links:
[1] http://miasta.gazeta.pl/lodz/1,35136,4662983.html
[2] http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/browsers-barometer/firefox-july-2007/index-1...
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Dell for Soldiers
Dell Community, Service and Support submitted by haler
11/12/07 **UNDER REVIEW**
My step-son is leaving for Iraq in January. His mom can't afford a laptop for him and neither can I, but I thought it could be done if everyone in the family could contribute via a site, then when there was enough, you could ship him a laptop!
This could be a great "community" PR thing for Dell -- Set up a website, soldiers could register -- somehow they are qualified, then anyone could go and give $5 to a few people. When the solider gets their laptop, they could receive a list of email addresses of the contributors if the contributors cared to share it -- then they could be pen pals too.
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Check out the fastest Vista laptop PCMagazine tested - and try to make something competitive.
Operating Systems, Laptops submitted by jmxz
10/29/07
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html
The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year--or for that matter, ever--is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware. The $2419 (plus the price of a copy of Windows Vista, of course) MacBook Pro's PC WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88 beats Gateway's E-265M by a single point, but the MacBook's score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn't care less whether you run Windows.
Interesting who has the fastest Vista laptop. Best thing is that that vendor doesn't even force you to get Vista. Dell, there are 2 Ideas to copy from this model (which is selling very well):
- copy them in making a very high performance laptop.
- copy them in not requiring Vista on the very high performance laptop.
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Support Space Ship One
Dell submitted by badblood
10/31/07
Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne completed the first privately funded human spaceflight on June 21, 2004. SpaceShipOne was developed by Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan's aviation company, without government funding. On October 4, it won the $10-million Ansari X PRIZE, by reaching 100 kilometers in altitude twice in a two-week period with the equivalent of three people on board, with no more than ten percent of the non-fuel weight of the spacecraft replaced between flights. Development costs were estimated to be $25-million, funded completely by Paul Allen.
Developing the capability to escape the boundaries of our home planet is one of mankind’s most spectacular achievements and has enormous potential significance to the future of the human race. Already, our limited exploration of space has changed the way we live and think, from instant global communications to a better understanding of climate change. Space travel to date though has come at enormous expense, not just in financial terms but in its environmental impact and the personal safety of those involved.
Dell should recognise that private sector innovation is often the key to radical improvement. Dell needs to improve its history of promoting and investing in breakthrough technologies.
Dell should acknowledge that it is in mankind’s interest to develop our knowledge and understanding as well as our access to space. For this reason Dell should undertake to support the development and commercialization of this completely new approach to manned space travel - made possible by Burt Rutan and SpaceShipOne. In doing so, Dell will enable many thousands of people across the world to experience space for themselves and help to unlock the potential benefits that will come from safe and affordable manned space access.
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Release Ideastorm under the GNU General Public Licence
IdeaStorm submitted by badblood
10/31/07
"The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users...."
Release Ideastorm under the GNU General Public Licence
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New holiday commercials with the Dell dude!! (forgiveness and second chances)
Dell submitted by jervis961
11/08/07
"Oh, how the mighty have fallen: Ben Curtis, famous just a few years ago as "Steven the Dell Dude," is now a waiter / bartender at Tortilla Flats in New York. Although the Steven ads were hugely popular and generated tons of buzz (and revenue) for Dell, the company eventually dropped the campaign after Ben got arrested for buying pot in 2003 -- shocking no one who actually watched the commercials, but apparently not the message Dell wanted to send the parents fronting the cash for all those
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/08/dude-youre-getting-a-drink-dell-dude-now-a...
Here's the idea.
A new commercial series staring our older Dell dude but not the conventional type that Dell usually does. Have him at home explaining to a friend that he needs a new computer. His buddy can say something like "you aren't thinking about buying from THEM are you?". Then just end the commercial without even mentioning Dell.
Not actually mentioning Dell will get more people to talk about it out of speculation. Is it a Dell commercial? Is the Dell Dude working for HP?
A new commercial could come out a few weeks later to continue the story of him reconnecting with Dell. It would be a good holiday thing about forgiveness for past mistakes and getting a second chance. Not only does this apply to the Dell Dude but to Dell itself.
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Keyboards Upfront for Notebooks / Laptops
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Laptops submitted by samsonik
11/08/07
Before the arrival of Windows 3.1 all laptops had the keyboard upfront which was easy to use !
Shortly after the deployement of 3.1 everyone put the keyboard at the back and the touchpas upfront.
At the end of the day professional IT people use conveniently a mouse.
But in any case scenario, the keyboard at the front of the PC was MUCH MUCH EASIER to use.
Could we come back to the keyboard logically at the front of the laptop, with the mouse pad behind, as a backup in case the mouse is out of order !
F.Bourrigaud
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Dell XPS Club
Dell Community, XPS products submitted by av1945
11/06/07
Why not have an XPS Club for XPS owners where they can enter compitions to win Dell stuff, answer questionaires, product updates, wallpapers and more. Sony has a 'Club Vaio', why not a 'Club XPS'
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