Memory Expansion Beyond 4GB
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Desktops and Laptops submitted by nelson
04/23/07
Manufacture desktop and notebook systems that support future memory expansion well beyond 4GB.
In a world where 2GB is rapidly becoming the standard base memory for new desktops and notebooks, selling computers that will never support memory expansion beyond 2 or 4 GB is an extreme example of premature obsolescence.
Moore's law will force the universal adoption of 64 bit addressing support in operating systems and application software in the very near future.
A system that is purchased today should not be unnecessarily crippled 5 years from now because a Dell motherboard designer decided to cut corners and eliminate the address runs required for future memory expansion.
The only systems that Dell currently offers with significant potential for expansion are servers such as the PowerEdge SC1430, which does not officially support Windows XP/Pro or Vista.
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3GB Laptops
Operating Systems submitted by mugunth
07/03/07
We all know that, Vista (and any 32 bit OS) cannot access memory more than 3.16 GB... Hence instead of a 4GB upgrade option, why don't Dell provide a 3GB (2DIMM) option (1 X 1GB + 1 X 2GB 2DIMMs) which would be cheaper than the 4GB upgrade? When Windows cannot access all the 4GB you provide, what's the use in investing extra money?
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ZERO Noise Water Cooling Laptops
Environment, New Product Ideas submitted by ruvenss
05/28/07
  
Make a cooling system with less decibels than any other Laptop on the market. Use cooling materials, as an option, so customers can choose to pay more for a non noisy laptop.
A cooling system for every part of the laptop, even sharing the weight of the components on the screen side,. imagine a flat battery on the whole LCD screen back, now with that free space on the chassis you can split the harware components so they can breath better, also include a flat gel cooling system, to improve performance, battery life, and reduce the noise as much as possible.
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TheOpenCD.org should be an option for any Dell OS, regardless if Windows or Ubuntu
Linux, Operating Systems, Software submitted by jorge
05/26/07
Dell should offer the TheOpenCD.org CD as an option for customers to select when configuring their purchase. Again, irrelevant of Windows or Ubuntu. TheOpenCD offers the following Software Suites for Free and without the usual Bloatware that irritates customers:
Design - Blender, GNU Image Manipulation Program, Inkscape, NVU, Scribus, Tux Paint.
Games - Battle for Wesnoth, Enigma, Neverball, Sokoban YASC.
Internet - Azureus, FileZilla, Firefox, Gaim, HTTrack, RSSOwl, Thunderbird, TightVNC, WinSCP.
Multimedia - Audacity, Celestia, Really Slick Screensavers, Stellarium.
Productivity - MoinMoin, OpenOffice.org, PDFCreator, Notepad2.
Utilities - 7-zip, Abakt, Clamwin, GTK+, HealthMonitor, Workrave.
Due to an unpredictable change I alter my idea to !
TheOpenDisc.com CD should be given out if TheOpenCD.org is not complete enough for you! Its pretty much the same thing, opensource software for the price of Free yet many more apps! So a win win for all! Yeay!
TheOpenDisc
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standardise WUXGA resoloution on all dell monitors
Monitors and Displays submitted by blah
09/21/07
we don't see much of WUXGA screen res, but is required for displaying full 1080 hd. i think dell should provide an option for WUXGA 1920x1200 resolution for all notebooks, not only the 17" models, and make it standard on displays.
It is somewhat ironic that dell offers blu-ray, and doesn't have the ability to display it's hd output
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Linux Drivers
Linux submitted by fjgaude
08/03/07
Get more drivers working out-of-the-box for Ubuntu, including zen and raid.
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Support for Open Document Format
Operating Systems, Software submitted by lordshipmayhem
06/12/07
Dell should encourage support for Open Document Format:
- provide a page listing the benefits of ODF over proprietary formats (OOXML and other Microsoft "standards")
- Link to the home pages of applications that support ODF (OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, KOffice)
ODF is designed to be both platform and application agnostic: anyone who wants to write one, can create applications that allow you to use any ODF file, without losing file formatting. The objective is to allow any user to keep access to their data even if the maintainer of the application the data was saved in ends up going out of business or ending support for the application in question.
I don't know about you, but I have some files that were written in word processing software that no longer exists, in a couple of cases on platforms that don't exist outside of the hands of museums and collectors. Those files are at best extremely difficult if not utterly impossible to open now.
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Pre-install Linux with option of licensed codecs
Linux, Desktops and Laptops submitted by dominicwise
02/20/07
Provide customers with the option to have Linux pre-installed as an alterrnative to Windows when purchasing a PC or laptop. As there are a huge number of Linux distributions available it might be sensible to offer from a few of the most popular ones e.g. Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora which can be freely distributed at no cost. This would provide a competitive advantage as with zero licensing fees lower prices could be offered to customers.
Because of patent laws in some countries many freely downloadable Linux distributions do not provide certain 'essential' software such as decoders for commercial DVDs and other comon media formats as part of their core distribution. There is at least one company (whose name escapes me for now) that allows a user to purchase a bundle of licensed media codecs that can be legally installed on Linux in most, if not all jurisdictions. Offering somehing like this as an option at purchase would make it possible for users to access common media content without having to jump through hoops or risk straying onto the wrong side of the law.
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Fully Upgradeable Laptop
Laptops submitted by badblood
05/19/07
Produce a Laptop where everything can be upgraded. Asus is doing it - and here it is:
You name it: Processor, LCD, hard drive, memory, graphics card, optical drive -- take the old one out and put a new component it, all within minutes. The notebook is designed around the core principle of it being easy to upgrade.
Maybe you already have a flexible computer like this one?
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XPS Gaming Commercial
Advertising and Marketing, Gaming, XPS products submitted by robq
02/16/07
We have been building around the Purely You commercial, and considering the new Dell.com/gaming website and the new gaming forums, how many new customers really know anything about it?
I think we should run a gaming type commercial, similar to the one I helped with last year for the Game Developer Conference(GDC).
Lets show customers who are interested in gaming just how versatile and powerful our XPS Gaming systems are. We have sponsorships with gaming teams which are already recognized in the gaming industry, maybe they could be part of the commercials.
I think this would be a tremendous boost for Dell in entering the gaming industry and advertise first for an OEM company around gaming.
What does everyone think?
Lets get psyched and go after that cool factor for Dell and XPS.
Thanks,
Rob Q.
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Stop reccommending Microsoft Windows Vista
Advertising and Marketing, Operating Systems submitted by arigali
06/19/07
Windows Vista is a problem for computers. It does not improve user experience but degrade it. Maybe after its first service pack it (or second, or third) would turn into a good operating system. But now, Vista is closer to Windows Millenium than XP in terms of stability and user experience. Dell is compromising its name by promoting and reccommending that OS.
Microsoft Windows XP should be the default for new computers and Linux standing as optional, at the same level as Vista, worldwide (not just in U.S.).
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1280x1024 Ultralight
Monitors and Displays submitted by ben_k
02/16/07
There are lots of laptops under 5 pounds with screen resolutions of 1280x768 or 800, but none that will do 1280x1024. This is a real PITA when you switch from a desktop monitor which usually is 1280x1024 to the internal screen and back. Especially if you do this half a dozen times a day. How about just a little more screen real-estate for lightweight laptops?
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Keep every gaming system components at the level intended
Gaming, Monitors and Displays submitted by fiber4now
02/16/07
From a gaming point of view, many of the Dell XPS systems are high end but when you bundle the system it seems that you take short cuts value wise when you look at the default unit. For example I am a reader of Maximum PC they have a Polywell Poly i680SLI-QX that is missing just the new H2C cooling system and it would be the same system as the XPS 710 H2C. Its retail price is $4395 without display and the H2C is $5400 with a default 22" LCD. Now my gripe with the H2C is not that you used the 590i SLI board but that you would charge an extra grand and not use either a 24" or 30" display with the H2C.
This over pricing of new technology is where you have problems competing with other high end system builders. My reason for writing this is to advise you that gamers that spend this amount of money for a systems may not know that this system was designed for very high resolutions but they will quickly realize it when they read review sites running two G8800 GTX in SLI at resolution very much higher than the native resolution of your default display, and these very same review sites are receiving smooth frame rates at high graphics setting that your default Dell display can not obtain.
My Dell idea is, if Dell is going to introduce cutting edge extreme high end PCs such as the H2C then keep every component on the default system compatible in value with each other. In other words do not cheap out with someones gaming pleasure when they have made up their minds to purchase what they believe to be the fastest gaming system on earth, only to find that with the display that Dell defaulted into there system they will never have the pleasure of that performance because their display does not have a high enough native resolution. You have done this same thing product after product one or two lower valued component that takes away from the performance or the whole. With review sites and customers saying repeatedly, It could be good if Dell did this or that, as a company aren't you tired of review sites saying this? Dells response should be that Dell intends with their Ultra high end gaming systems to finish what they started.
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"Dell Gaming League"
Dell Community, Gaming submitted by john_saddington
02/19/07
I thought it would be cool to have a Dell "Gaming League" where people could participate and build community around video games.
Games like World of Warcraft, where people could register and be a part of an ever enlargening body of players who use Dell machines.
This could be married with "Contests" and such.
Also, registered users could accrue points and such for time spent as well as receive prizes or discounts for membership!
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What Dell Could Do For Linux & What Linux Could Do For Dell
Linux submitted by opowered
03/13/07
Linux has changed in the past 5 years. Linux has changed a lot in the past 5 years.
It is this change that is bringing Linux very close to the point of acceptance for personal and business use. But it still is Linux that holds the end user back to changing his desktop to a valid alternative. Why?
You should be mad to install linux unless you understand what a partition is and you are not affraid to mess up your machine because you know what you are doing.
Since I started using Linux on my desktop, I became a happy PC user, free from frustration about crashes and virusses, free from licence fees and happy about plenty of good or promising software, developped by highly motivated communities.
But why cant I get my wife to use Linux?
Because she does not know and has not learned and is affraid to change. Although she survived a shift from '98 to XP... And she uses OpenOffice.org and is very happy about it, much happier then before, but it was a hard road to get her to use it (it took a MSOffice crash, and a good one...)
She now is sure that her next PC will be a Mac. Because she has had it with problems.
I see people around me moving to Mac much easier that to Linux.
By a Mac, it works. No worries. No thank you, not for me. I'd like to see a hardware vendor deliver good looking hardware that is guaranteed to work with Linux. With or without proprietary drivers. Like most people I do not care about the fact that my driver is not open source.
I want a sweet looking, furiously fast, fairly priced beauty on my desktop and know it will run <u>some</u> distro.
Which one? The one that meets the specs provided by the vendor for usability, easy of configuration and looks equally sweet as the box itself.
Let the thing sell itself...
A distro should be clean, without flashy but overdone branding!
Software should be named 'Desk' and not 'OpenOffice.org'!
Hardware should be 'designed', not built!
I am pretty sure now is the time to do it. Not next year, not last year. Now. Get on it Dell. Amaze me. Set up a design contest. Innovate? I dare you to do so...
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No McAfee
Software submitted by doomlord52
02/19/07
I think everyone agrees here. No McAfee. i cant unistall my copy because it will take all my settings for the Microsoft firewall with it. That includes my outlook settings, internet, and just about every program. Why cant i say "no McAfee please"??? is it really that hard? use Norton....
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More AMD machines, higher graphics options, better sound integration
Desktops and Laptops submitted by pjf3rd
02/17/07
I applaud Dell for offering a few machines with less expensive AMD processors, but Dell needs to offer AMD options on more machines and notebooks, from the low end to the high end. Competition is good, sell more AMD and force Intel to reduce their ridiculously high prices.
And Dell needs better graphics options all over the spectrum. Why can't a buyer get a better graphics card pre-installed on ANY machine in the line, not just the higher-end ones?
Bottom line -- if I want to pay to get high-end graphics and sound and save money by choosing a lower-power processor and less software, why can't I?
I was forced to buy an HP notebook last year because HP offerred a 2Ghz AMD processor, 1GB RAM and 100GB hard drive + DVD-RW for under $1,250, while an equivalent Dell notebook was well over $2,300. And I got 15.4 in WXGA as well. The only HP drawback was 1280x1024 max on the LCD, but the graphics card supports 1600x1200 for an external monitor.
The last Dell desktop I bought (Dimension 8400) came with Soundblaster Live sound, but because it was a separate card and not chips on the MB, there are no front-panel sound connections. This is extremely annoying and makes sound connection changes much more difficult (my CPU is in a cabinet where it is harder to get at the back of the machine). Choosing higher-end sound should not remove convenient front-panel connections.
I have been a loyal Dell buyer since the mid '90's, and I still recommend Dell to friends and co-workers, but I will buy where the price and features are the best. Wake up Dell!
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Stop allegiance to Microsoft
Dell submitted by danielpf
02/28/07
I find the obvious allegiance of Dell to Microsoft disgusting. Most somewhat knowledgeable Microsoft users I know of in fact *hate* Windows, because the user experience with Windows is poor, or because Microsoft's arrogance and monopoly become unbearable. People are forced to use Microsoft products due to monopoly, not by choice. In this context, Dell plays the role of a servile vassal, which is bad for its image.
On the other hand Dell produces fine hardware. Each time I have bought Dell laptops I was strongly hesitating to take another brand just because off the obligatory attached Microsoft software. Some time ago I had to choose 66 high performance servers for my company: the deal with Dell was technically competitive, but the deal went to another company clearly less dependent on Microsoft.
My sincere best idea that I offer to Dell is to cut its strong ties with Microsoft.
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