Dell's All-in-One PC Has the Guts, Design To Compete With iMac

Wall Street Journal ^ | 12/27/2007 | by WALTER S. MOSSBERG

[Swordmaker]

December 27, 2007 Something interesting is going on at Dell. The Texas personal-computer behemoth, long associated with boxy, boring machines, has started emphasizing industrial design. And the company, which in recent years seemed to care only about corporate customers, techies and hard-core gamers, appears once again interested in average, mainstream consumers who value simplicity.

The most tangible example of this new approach is Dell's XPS One desktop -- an elegant, handsome, cleverly designed one-piece computer. If it didn't have the Dell logo on it, the XPS One might be mistaken for a product of the PC industry's design leaders, Apple or Sony.

[Still Thinking]

I see what you mean about the Pixar lamp. Weird. I think the lamp is cute, the computer hideous, but I can see a strong resemblance. I guess it’s the animation and “mannerisms” of the lamp that I find cute, rather than the shape. BTW, what do you mean by IBM’s design having a Germanic flavor? Do you have links to any pictures of products or designs that would show me what you mean. That’s interesting to me.