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Love the Dell M2010
by Mark Pulham November 13, 2006 2:36 AM PST
I have a 2010 (well my wife does but I took it from her) and I love it. Sure it's bigger than the usual laptop, but as the video showed, you can use it with no bother. I'm an ex Londoner now living on Vancouver Island. I probably would never use it on a bus or the tube anyway, but drop into a local Starbucks with it's Internet hot spot, and you have one seriously impressive machine. I love Dell, all of my computers have been Dells since I arrived here in 1990 thanks to the first person I talked to at Dell asking me what I wanted the machine to do, not here's what I have take it or leave it. My current desktop has a 24 inch flat screen which is great for games, but the 20 inch on the 2010 is almost just as good. I saw it on Dell's website very early on and just couldn't believe the size of the thing, but I have to say, who wants a small screen when you can have one this size. It's great.
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I'll Have One!
by GeneBuettner November 13, 2006 4:10 AM PST
As soon as someone comes out with a wheelie bag for it. That should be in about a month, I'd reckon.
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Other Uses for the M2010
by lbot November 13, 2006 6:37 AM PST
You can come up to a pretty girl, while holding the laptop in your hang, and tell her you came from the furture and you need to save her.
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Huge Hybrid Desktops are Hateful
by nairb221 November 13, 2006 6:42 AM PST
referencing these huge 20" and 20# laptop/desktop hybrids-I consider them a tragic case of affective overdose, hugeness for the sake of hugeness. I prefer a reasonably priced 10" screeen with decent security and wireless provisions and good speakers, this would be a machine for travel-sadly only sony has come forward and the price is excessive at this time!
BF
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Flash video
by LarryH November 13, 2006 11:19 AM PST
I noticed that from my work location I could not view the video (we're behind a corporate firewall/proxy server). However, when I went to the UK site from the link in the story I could view the Flash video just fine. I would suggest the US group learn how the UK group got this to work so the CNET videos are viewable to folks like us.
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Great production
by lee.gee November 15, 2006 11:42 AM PST
Loved the vid - keep it coming!
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Ordered one..
by YerOwnStupidity April 3, 2007 5:34 PM PDT
..and maxed it out. Actually the size kind of intimidated me at first, but after the video I realized it probably wasn't so bad. And as I used to sling one of those huge casette decks in the 80's, 18 lbs. is peanuts.It's not really a notebook its classified as a 'Desktop replacement', and it would be unfair to compare it to a notebook.....for the notebooks. This system would be perfect for a bachelor suite or that young professional still living at home. Its an entire entertainment suite in an 18 lbs. package. How could you go wrong? As soon as I saw it, I started to think of HOW I could use it,if you stop limiting it as a notebook its horizons really grow.
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