Refuse to do business with partners who do not treat treat their employees well

Dell submitted by ethereal1 Yesterday

Today I ran across this story in the Associated Press:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9G6ZwWj2WPb_atL5yTpZVfiXshgD91O3QT80

Spherion, the company mentioned in article, provides staffing services for Dell. Large companies, such as Dell, often plea to Congress to let the free market work to right the wrongs in corporate America instead of imposing more government regulation. Well Dell, here's your chance to do exactly that. Spherion is ethically in the wrong here, so why not take a moral stand and discontinue doing business with them and do so publicly. Make it clear that you won't tolerate this behavior, not only from Spherion, but from any company seeking to provide products and services to Dell.

It would be nice if Dell were willing to take a stand for those who work for it, whether contracted labor or direct employees. It would certainly make me feel pretty good about buying a computer from Dell. As it stands right now, I would not feel comfortable about buying a Dell so long as it continues to use Spherion for its staffing services. 3 Comments »

Fast Computers

Dell, New Product Ideas submitted by gamer128 Yesterday

On PCWorld and PCMag, they say that when Windows is loaded onto an Apple, Windows runs faster! That is a big shame to all Windows fans. I mean if Dell could make all their computers run as fast as possible, without their preloaded junk, which I'm pretty sure that's what makes it go slow, then consumers, especially gamers would start to consider Dell's computers 8 Comments »

XPS Laptops

Dell, Gaming, New Product Ideas, XPS products, Laptops submitted by gamer128 Yesterday

I think this is the one question that most mobile gamers want to know. Will Dell make a laptop like the M1530 that is a gaming laptop? I don't mean like high end, just a laptop that can do well with most PC games out there. Think...imagine if Dell could partner up with NVIDIA to make a graphics card that is powerful to handle...like Crysis! And that when that graphics card gets old, or the motherboard, you could just get an upgrade just like the desktops. 6 Comments »

MLG Gaming

Dell, Gaming submitted by gamer128 Yesterday

You know what I think? I think that Dell should be more involved with gaming. They already have one of the greatest o buy desktops ever, the XPS 630. Plus more gamers would want to buy from Dell. Maybe even hosts their own gaming competitions for XBOX LIVE. 5 Comments »

Dell Dock available for download

Dell, Dell Web Site, Software, Laptops submitted by junior 2 days ago

for the new product line Studio, there is a release of the Dell Dock, Dell should make this Dock for download on their website for users of Windows XP and Vista. like this:

Dell.com > having a tab saying Dell Dock, new page opens, Dell Dock for Windows XP, Windows Vista tabs......opening Windows Vista tab......two option tabs saying

Windows Vista Tab

Windows Vista 32/64 bit OS
Windows Vista 32/64 bit SP1 OS

Windows XP tab

Windows XP 32/64 bit SP1/SP2 OS
Windows XP 32/64 bit SP3 bit OS
Windows XP 32/64 bit OS

Thats what I think. 6 Comments »

Starbucks & Dell

Dell submitted by yuvikaasharma 3 days ago

This is an awesome concept....I always thought that companies have a pro-active approach towards people n this is so perfect....cheers to the technology called internet...:D

I also found a few more companies doing the same thing:

see this: www.diesis.in a guitar school in india which has similar approach...rather the same apporach....thy r lookin at developing a good quality guitar education centre,...a small scale but good really good idea..:) 3 Comments »

Fedora 9 on select Dell laptops and Desktops

Dell, Linux, Operating Systems, Desktops and Laptops submitted by s33nagain Jul 3

Linux on the Dell laptops Have been amazing, so very nice. But your Linux videos completely enstate that Dell is all about choice. And, well, some users like Fedora more than Ubuntu. It doesn't have to be known this way, but some Linux Veterans lke Fedora more. And Ubuntu is more of a beginning Linux OS. I'm not saying that people who are long-time Linux user souldn't use Ubuntu.

I'm saying that some perfer a different "cup of tea" or, in Ubuntu's case, "cup o' coffee". And that's what dell is about.

In addition to the already distributed Dell computers that serve FreeDOS, and Ubuntu, we should add Fedora on select desktops and laptops. 2 Comments »

Dell.com consumer-oriented Linux page

Dell, Dell Web Site, Linux submitted by rafaelrojasc Jul 1

I know Dell already has a Linux-oriented Web page at www.dell.com/linux but it's too BUSINESS-oriented. Dell should make a small Web page explaining to regular consumers the benefit of using Linux and their Ubuntu offering (no virus, no spyware, rock stable, choice, free as in freedom), and then direct the user to Dell's Ubuntu computers, instead of the "cautionary tale" you get when you click on the "Dell ubuntu" link which says something like "Ubuntu's not for everyone. If you want Windows, come back.".

This proposed Web page can also say something like that, but it can also feature all the positives of using Linux. I mean, Apple tells you all about Macs telling you how nice they look and are, how stable it is and they don't really care if most Users go for Windows. It's all about saying "here's a choice. You can try it". Comment »

Rename Dell to Vostro

Dell submitted by napa Jul 1

Vostro is an awesome name 12 Comments »

Increase R&D - create your own competitive advantage technology

Dell submitted by pablohs Jun 25

The rule in the PC world has always been “evolution not revolution”. Dell, like many other PC manufacturers, just does “Product Development” – They take parts and pieces from many suppliers, put them together and have designers make it look nice and we get a new PC or Laptop. This is often done by simply incorporating features from other platforms. The changes are incremental and produce incremental performance boosts.

Dell needs to increase their Research and Development in new technologies that will give them clear competitive advantages against competitor’s products. I know this is just a big statement (not an idea) but I would like to list some of the technologies I believe Dell should be working on. I am sure that my fellow IdeaStorm Bloggers will add a great list of “technologies” that may produce a “revolution” increment instead of baby steps.

Processors
Cell Processors – the PS3 use a Cell Processors – when the specific cell processor in the PS3 is good for the console, DELL should be working with its partners (Intel/AMD) in a new x86 based Cell processor and a Linux based OS that squeeze all the power out of this architecture. (IBM is working on something like this but using their PowerPC)

Memory
Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) – use magnetic fields (IBM is working on this)
Nano-RAM or NRAM – use the mechanical position of carbon nanotubes
Memristors – HP is working on a memory that will use resistance

Hard Drives
Giant Magneto resistance and Perpendicular HD – GMR or CPP-GMR (Hitachi is working on these HD) this technology promise 10 times more density on HDs.
Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HMAR) – Fujitsu and Seagate are working on this technology. 1 Comment »

Change you logo to a symbol of some type

Advertising and Marketing, Dell submitted by badblood Jun 24

Because the Dell logo is made up by the word 'Dell' it is difficult to translate or be recognized by non-Latin-alphabet reading people. Also it is difficult to keep it the right way up on laptop computer lids.

So how about Dell take a leap and develop a logo that is a symbol, rather than a word. A symbol that can be identified by anyone, in any language, and no matter which way your computer lid is pointing?

How about it...... 11 Comments »

All of Dell Computers

Dell, Sales Strategies submitted by dermatologist Jun 23

Dell will fare MUCH BETTER and stand overwhelmingly strong against all other major competitors, if they can offer the best component assembled configurations of all their PC lines (especially demanding XPS lines) internationally.

Dell should test drive all the system stability at one spot in the world (regardless of the variation of component brands), and when the system is stabilised, then do they BEGIN THEIR RETAIL AROUND THE WORLD (relatively) SIMULTANEOUSLY. This will SERIOUSLY pack punches against all other vendors and competitors.

There are so many markets out there that dell did not fully penetrate. Dell provides good systems and powerful ones for the XPS, but when compared to the individual countries aimed at selling premium computers, dell cannot fully defeat the them as their parts are either not available, NOT TESTED IN THE REGION YET, or something else. If this continues, dell will never push the market frontiers.

A simple sentence to sum up is: If you have the parts, test the system and sell it all around!!!! NOT some lopesided sales and market here and there with so many loopholes for other vendors to pin your systems down.

No offences or racism or any sort of insulting remarks are meant, but why is the Asian market always the slowest in the import of premium technologies, when there are a HUGE POOL of consumers willing to invest in a premium dell system, and when 4 billion people live in Asia alone???!! 1 Comment »

STOCK SHARES

Dell submitted by wendy Jun 20

MAKE SHARES OF DELL STOCK AVAILABLE AS A DIRECT PURCHASE FROM DELL TO THE INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR 4 Comments »

Open Source Hardware

Dell submitted by simon_n Jun 18

There was an interesting article in The Economist magazine's technology quarterly out last week about hardware vendors publishing their hardware specs on-line for people to see and collaborate on:
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11482589&fsrc=RSS

Wouldn't you like to see Dell put their weight behind it too? Comment »

Dell should buy AMD.

Dell submitted by drewness Jun 7

Dell Should buy AMD and offer AMD chips on most systems. Limit Intel offerings or eliminate them entirely. I just read today that the FTC opened a formal investigation into Intel sales tactics. We know how it works- Microsoft and Intel threaten the PC makers with loss of discounts if they don't play by Microsoft & Intel rules. Very uncool bullying tactics! 25 Comments »

Acer poised to push Linux - Will DELL be left behind?

Dell, Linux submitted by phubert Jun 5

How many times have suggestions been posted that Dell raise the visibility -and the extent- of its Linux offerings?

How little have we heard back in return?

Acer is planning to push Linux on laptops now.
Isn't it TIME for Dell to join in??? ****

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/77636,acer-bets-big-on-linux.aspx 24 Comments »

Let your customers choose which Internet Search company you sell them to.

Dell, Dell Web Site submitted by jmxz Jun 2

In some ways you (and HP) clearly see see Google and Microsoft as the real "customers" (who are always right), and see Dell Users as the "product" you're selling -- in much the same way TV companies see their audience as the product they sell to advertisers.

One obvious example is where you and HP sell your users to the highest bidding search engine at the possible expense of the user experience of Dell users.

I realize that a couple years back, Google called you "its secret weapon" against Microsoft and described how they were "ecstatic" about partnering with you. And I realize that you and Google made some slightly annoying error pages presumably to make even more money from Google at the expense of your users.

It seems this bidding for Dell Users is heating up again: Today I see that microsoft signs [a new] search distribution deal with HP presumably to inflict similar annoying things on their customers.

Ideas:

Idea 1. Rather than sell all your users to the highest bidder - make a deal with both of the search companies, and let your customer choose which subsidy they want when ordering.

Default Search Engine
[_] Use Google as a default search engine - save $5
[_] Use Microsoft Live search as a default search engine - save $30.
[X] Use Yahoo as a default search engine - $0

Idea 2. Note that in the proposed form in Idea 1 you pass this subsidy on to your customer. This way people buying Dells will feel more like the real customer and less like the product you're selling to Google and Microsoft. 20 Comments »

recovery disaster plan

Dell, Software, Small Business submitted by meeliton May 31

Hi
small and medium companies when purchase Dell server and storage machines, ask for valued aded services such as disaster recovery software, Why can't Dell develope this software or make an agreement with other companis, i. e norton, or acronis?

Seeya Comment »

Start A New Independent PC Company

Advertising and Marketing, Dell submitted by gear May 11

What is now clear is that DELL's biggest enemy to doing things differently is DELL.

For example, I believe that DELL cannot get out from under the agreements with Microsoft that virtually compels the company to install Windows and Office on every single PC (except servers) sold in order to get the best price or to participate in their promotional programs.

Well, what if a handful of people were to "resign" from DELL, go out and start a brand new mail order PC company from scratch (with ahem, guess who investing) to do the things that DELL cannot do?

Like offer Linux, no OS, etc.

The company can be a virtual company and buy off the same suppliers, who would be,. nudge, nudge, willing to give the new company nearly as good prices as it gives DELL.

All except Microsoft, of course. 1 Comment »

The Third Sector

Dell submitted by kathleenscott May 4

Instead of laying people off, has Dell considered donating employees time to that employee's choosen charity or cause? Dell, the Third Sector Entity, and the employee could even search for matching funds to offset the salary of the employee. Comment »