Fancy some Dell Ultrabook action? Dell Australia’s just announced pricing and availability for its extremely sleek carbon fibre wrapped ultrabook.
You’ve seen a thousand videos vaguely similar to this one — at least in the way it starts — but just be patient. Give it two minutes. There’s an unexpected payoff. A money shot, if you will.
I’m a big fan of small form factor PCs. Sure, they’re a pain in the arse to upgrade, but they’re less obtrusive. I’ve got a feeling gamers don’t think the same way, though — maybe Alienware’s X51 can convince them otherwise?
Engineers at Dell must be on aFast and Furious kick too! They’ve clearly decided to live life a quarter-mile at a time, and swaddled their XPS 13 with carbon fibre.
Dell’s XPS 13 is their official entry into the ultrabook market. On the outside, it doesn’t look terribly different from other ultrabooks (hello teardrop design!), but a closer examination reveals that Dell took a very interesting approach to the materials they used in their machine. Namely, carbon fibre.
Ultrabooks! They’re the pinnacle of computing if the marketing speak out of CES is anything to go by. Dell’s the latest company to join the Ultrabook army, announcing the XPS 13 today.
Netbooks? They’re already dead to us. But that hasn’t stopped manufacturers churning them out. Now Dell has announced that it’s killing them off — a sure sign they’re done.
While real geeks build there own high-end gaming rigs, there’s still a market for PC gamers who want to buy a customisable high-end machine. The Alienware Aurora is designed for that market.
Dell’s approach to letting customers configure their PCs can be a little daunting, so I applaud them for providing helpful advice. Except in this instance where an image implied that choosing a cheaper graphics card would mean a blurry desktop.
JB’s current computing deal runs through Sunday, offering 15% off Dell computing products — although sadly Alienware products are specifically excluded. It’d be well worth checking what JB’s pricing is against what Dell might charge you for the same products, naturally. [JB Hi-Fi]
