Dell Studio Hybrid Desktop Is Just Like a Candy

I'm a fan of small PCs and even dreaming to install a mobile PC in my car. At that time, I only able to build a PC based on Mini-ITX motherboard. It never materialize as I was searching over and over again for a suitable casing. When the Apple Mac Mini introduced, it was awesome but the price still on the steep side (need to fork another thousand ringgit for the display). Then, Dell came up with this gem called Dell Studio Hybrid Desktop. Wow...



Features:

• 7 interchangeable sleeves colour
  
• 80% smaller than most desktop PC
• Come with optional wireless keyboard & mouse (great bargain for sure)
• Use 70% less power than typical desktop PC (energy saver means less electrical bill to pay)
  
• Analog and Digital sound outputs
• Built-in Draft-N Wireless Networking
• HDMI and DVI output
  

In Malaysia, the price for a complete system at the moment (14 August 2008) is starting from RM 2,899.00 inclusive of delivery.

Let's watch Jason unboxed a unit of Dell Studio Hybrid to evaluate is it worth to drool on this cute candy like PC from Dell



Yup, it worth it. As for me it is just a matter of time to get a unit.

Heads Up - Two in three retail PCs are notebooks

Based on current analysis by Best Buy, Radio Shack, Circuit City, CompUSA and Staples in US: Notebook shipments rose 57.7 percent during the first three weeks of the holiday shopping season as compared with the same period last year. These is no surprise, reviewing Dell catalog for December 2006 issue in my hand, the cheapest new notebook with wide display, AMD Sempron 3500+, 512MB DDR-2 SDRAM, 60GB SATA HDD and ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 is for RM2,249.00 it's less than USD1k.

Again despite issues like performance and capacity, technology lag, reliability, expandability, configurability and upgradeability shadowing the usage of notebooks for years, it is clearly demonstrate that price will is always win the users heart.

As if I could only have one computer, though, it would be a notebook, but only because client support is my primary task and I've gotten comfortable doing it in the client site rather than in my office.