Dell still in its artsy phase

(Credit: Dell)

The formerly buttoned-up, conservative Dell is clearly still exploring its creative side. First, it started wearing a beret, next we can expect it to grow a beard, start wearing all black, and hit open-mic night at the local cafe twice a week at this rate.

After its first go-round allowing Brooklyn, N.Y.-based urban artist Mike Ming to decorate its Inspiron 1525 laptop, the PC maker has come back for more.

This time, Dell has slathered Ming's tattoo-like designs on its Dell Studio 15-inch and 17-inch notebooks. There's the "Seaweed" design, pictured above, as well as "Sunburst," and "Red Swirl."

Both the Studio 15 and 17 come in Standard and Extreme editions--Extreme gets you 3GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive, while Standard means 2GB of memory and a 250GB hard drive.

The 15-inch starts at $799, the 17-inch at $999, and they are available for order now on Dell's Web site.

[externallain]

If only they would do the entire case and not just the top. I bought my girlfriend a laptop recently with a gorgeous purple and flower design on the monitor case but the bottom is just black. IDK, maybe it's just me, but the stark black takes away from the vibrant colors.

[thespud9k]

I dunno about everyone else, but I kinda like it. I'd get one. I only wish laptop manufacturers would get rid of all those god damned stickers on the base of the laptops and make the bottoms flat, like the Macbooks. I wouldn't be surprised if Dell was the one to do it. They seem to be the only PC vendor with any sense of what stylish PC's should look like. All the others seem to try way to hard or not hard enough.