Dell Studio Hybrid: Little, colored, different… for Canada
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Since you Canadians got the Blackberry Bold first, you had to wait for these - but now the wait is over. If giant towers are cramping your style, check out Dell’s new line of Studio Hybrids. You’ll also be happy to know, if you’re at all environmentally conscious, that these are Dell’s “greenest, most power-efficient desktop.” Like all of their machines, the Studio Hybrid is very customizable and comes in 6 different interchangeable color shells or bamboo. The disc slot will handle DVDs and Blu-Ray as an optional feature. Starting at $529, here are some of the features that can be had:
- Intel® Pentium™ Dual Core T2390 (1.86GHz/533Mhz FSB/1MB cache)
- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic Service Pack 1
- 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz (1 DIMM)
- 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
Pretty good deal, eh?
Tags: Dell, Desktop, Studio, Studio Hybrid
dells trying to copy the mini mac
the mini mac will always be faster with the same specs because VISTA blows
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The Mac Mini is wildly outdated, if Apple still wants to be in this market it needs to upgrade the hardware.
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Come on Dell school starts on Thursday, where is that Dell netbook !! : !@:
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The mac mini is a marginal player in the mac lineup … and is as sexy as a k-mart appliance.
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sp1 improves vista quite a bit
@ a pimp named slick slickback
now if you wanna go OS bashing we caould also say OSX isn’t without it’s faults either compatibilty issues new vwersions son suport stuff older than 3 years
the fair play encryption in the last version of itunes an quick time will cause scrashes an lock your system up
and as usual is easy to crash a machine running it
bottom lin apple selling you an overpriced outdated POS that looks cool to sheep
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The dell studio hybrid is a little out of date too - it isn’t quite the fastest chipset, etc. But it packs way more of a punch than the mini, and can get quite powerful for more $$. Gotta love the HDMI output, thats the kicker for me. Also has DVI, optial audio out, firewire… its the ultimate behind-the-tv computer.
I’m sure you could run OSX on it if you really wanted :-).
I’m eager to see what apple will do with the next mini - if they continue it - there have been rumors for a long time that they’ll drop it.
At any rate you can’t dispute that the mac mini is an absolutely horrible buy right now considering it has had the same specs for 390 days (and counting) and is still the same price. Ick!
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I am not a big Dell fan due my previous experience with Dell machines and support. I like this one. It certainly fits my needs. Might even give it a try once I get a chance to take it out for a test drive.
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Why is it that mini PCs (and Macs for that matter) don’t have discrete graphics like the laptop motherboards they are often based upon?
The Studio lines are OK (even if they look like old skool portable drives) - as is the Mac Mini - but the deal breaker comes down to the graphics.
It’ll make a nice PC for a receptionist though, in matching corporate color, no doubt.
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well im not stupid enough to buy a mac, i have OS x leopard running on my pc with no problem, and it boots up and dose not lag like vista does, my wifes laptop takes forever to boot up with vista.
i have never seen anything boot up in the time it takes me i swear its almost 30 seconds and its ready to go. before i got rid of vista it took about a min 30 to fully boot up.
intel core 2 duo 3.0ghz
4 gig of ram
500 gig sata 2 drive
xfx 9800gx2 video card
800watt psu
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theres always linux and tweak your regeisty clean it out an defragent it it loads much fast and defrag your drive once in a whil
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yes but ubuntu does not like my graphics card, im lucky i can get halflife 2 to run at a decet frame rate, and i have a 1gig video card with a 512bit interphase i only put OS X leopard on here just because i wanted to try it. i plan on putting windows xp back on here soon. my game crysis runs funny on vista but on xp it seems a bit smoother with everyhthing turned on high.
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