I spot this lorry bearing Dell logo at Jusco Seri Kembangan this morning. Apparently, it run some kind of roadshow promoting Dell Studio. The first time I came across Dell doing such promotion using lorry@truck. The lorry is fully loaded with variety of Dell Studio line notebooks and desktops for display and trial, accompanied by big speaker with load song!
I didn’t take a look further as we’re in hurry and manage to snap 1 shot only. But it will be ‘cooler’ if Dell use bus and transform it to showroom. Between ‘Dell Lorry’ and Dell Bus’, the later sounds much better. Much like ‘Google Bus‘.
Having seen Dell Dock on Dell Studio, and Mac (have it a long time ago), I’m searching the net to get my own dock, which has brought me to RocketDock.
RocketDock is a similar application distributed free of charge that looks and behaves similar if not better than the latter. Cheers for MS 2000 and XP users since it is compatible to your OS as well.
It has tonnes of addons. You can customize the appearance by using different kinds of skin and icon. Or personalize it by adding more tiny app (docklet), to make your dock useful and cater to your needs. Apart from that, it has a feature to set the minimized application to appear on the RocketDock. Thus any movie currently palying will keep on playing even though after being minimized, like Vista isn’t?
This is how the RocketDock looks like with the default icon, menu and skin (except for Firefox icon).
This is how RocketDock in my Vista OS system looks like. It can be placed at the bottom, right or left of your screen.
Compare it with Dell Dock at the screen shot below. At a glance, it looks similar even though the function and setup beneath it is different. Dell Dock is preset with certain functions, not merely the shortcut to any files or programs. Other than that, Dell Dock icon has a child icon, which is the submenu of the icon itself. See the video from yesterday’s post
Dell Studio makes its first appearance in US Dell store on June 26th even though Gadget blogs such as Gizmodo and Engadget has smelled it even earlier.
In line with Dell’s ‘philosophy’ of making cheap laptops but with gorgeous look, the design is inspired from its older sibling XPS, but with bulkier, weightier with middle end specification. That’s why Studio was there, to fill in the gap between Dell Inspiron and Dell XPS family.
This is not a review, but merely my view as a common laptop user. So don’t expect any high tech jargon used in this post. So far, Studio comes with 15″ and 17″ screen and is only powered with no really high spec Core 2 Duo (no AMD yet). Full specification can be read here.
This is the presentation of Dell Studio in Youtube
Dell Studio, comes with a variety of colors and skin. Personally I love the new design at the middle of the photos above.
Red colour Studio closed
Dell Studio Red Open
Dell Studio Black
Dell Studio black color with Blue-ray Disc drive
Dell Studio closer look
No WIMAX yet, but with WIFI and Bluetooth
Dell studio left side port
Dell studio right side port
Dell Studio closer look.
Dell Studio Closer look, left side. Notice the CD dock?
Dell Studio Keyboard
Dell Studio Black interior
Colorful Logitech mouse accompanying Dell Studio
Dell Dock
Other than its slick design, Dell Studio’s Vista has been touched up with with an appearance of Dell Dock, a short cut menu which you can see on top of the desktop. Watch the brief presentation.
Dell Studio with a short cut menu at the top of the screen called Dell Dock.
