Dell Snafu:Only $15 Instead of $148 140000 Monitors Sold

Dell has been done costly snafu in Taiwan: A promotional deal went online with the wrong price of $15 for a monitor.
WOW!! Just about eight hours, 26000 customers ordered 140000 monitors.
The Taiwanese regulators are now saying that Dell has to fulfill the order, which is standard procedure I guess. The original price was intended to be around $150.
After Dell changed the pricing, 471 grievances have been filed and Dell will successfully have to use the $15 price for clients who have prepared a single monitor. For the others, Dell will have to apply a unfathomable discount.

Dell Highlights Stylish Side

Now growing infamous as the bland-box company, Dell is approaching hard to break out of the old stereotype. This twilight in Manhattan, the company held something of a coming out party to rejoice its new design direction.

The most style shows up in the Dell Studio 15 and Studio 17 laptops, which now offer about 220 cover designs infused into the plastic lid of the PC – both solid colors and fanciful illustrations shaped by dozens of visual artists.

Under a new Dell Studio program, the company recruits artists four times each year to design notebook finishes that follow a theme. The first 200-odd designs are all meant to reflect the theme ‘Today.’

I must admit that the only way I perceived that theme is that I saw them all "today." Otherwise, the designs are all over the map. Not that it's a bad thing, though. "It was basically each artist bringing their interpretation of the word 'today,' which was pretty great," said Deanne Cheuk, who created a collection of four geometrically psychedelic designs called "Pyramid." She praised the wide latitude that the mandate gave her.

Dell going to Lower and Higher with Inspiron Mini 10 Netbook

The progress of netbooks reminds me of The White Stripes Song ‘Take, Take and Take,’ in which Jack White starts out saying that all he needs is to enjoy a comfortable seat in a bar. But by the end of the song, he'll be overwhelmed if he can't leave that same bar without a kiss from fellow patron Rita Hayworth.

Sure, we once thought that all we needed in netbooks was a cheap little lappie for email. But wouldn't be nice to have a bigger screen, a bigger keyboard, a better processor? And while you're at it, please throw in some HD video.

Dell had previously done all that with its $399 mini 10, which sports an Intel Atom Z series processor for HD video playback, an optional 720p HD screen, and even an HDMI port for hooking up a giant-screen TV.

I thought that was all that I needed. And then Dell showed off a version with an HDTV tuner, which spokesperson Anne Camden said should be available this summer for about a $50 upgrade. The tuner should pull in a good signal without an antenna in most locations, Dell claims. But if you're bounded by real (as at Dell's press event tonight), you can also plug in an included antenna to boost welcome. It worked pretty well, though I did see infrequent stuttering of the video feed.