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June 13 2008
Dell challenges the Eee with... the E?!?!
Shared by Josh Bancroft
I'm quite interested in the smaller one, running Ubuntu Mobile. Especially at $299.
Competition in this area is heating up! Eee PC, MSI Wind, and now the Dell E. So hard to choose!
The sleek, whore-red Dell subnotebook Gizmodo spotted Michael Dell wandering around with at All Things D has been officially announced and named, and it's called the Dell E. I love it. It says everything about Dell: they put together pretty good computers for not a lot of money, but they're so creatively bankrupt that they don't even blink at stealing the product name of their biggest competitor. I mean, you'd at least expect a moist sound of embarrassment to gurgle out of Dell's PR orifice, but nothing! Oh, Dell, you shameless hussy!
That said, I still really like the looks of these. There will be four models of Es. The standard E is their 8.9-inch contender, while as the E Slim is a 12.1-inch MacBook Air challenger, only 0.8-inches thick. Then there's the E Video and E Video+, which offer more RAM, flash storage, webcams and bluetooth in the 8.9-inch chassis. The operating system will be Windows XP, apparently, but with an instant-on Linux-on-a-chip solution for rapidly booting up and checking your email or doing some browsing. And I'm still guessing that Ubuntu's Netbook Remix OS will at least be an option on these, given Canonical's past history with Dell.
The Dell E will be released in August in a variety of colors, starting at $299.
Dell and E Slim revealed [Engadget]