Cheap and more cheerful
Dell has revealed three new-look Vostros: the 220, 220s and 420. While they're available right now in the US, at a starting price of $319 for a Celeron 430 base unit, the launch date for EMEA is 3rd November.
The Vostro range is targeted at small business. Here's what Dell reckons is better about them:
- Refined industrial design with a glossy front;
- Greater convenience through redesigned optical drive bays;
- Increased internal storage capacity with one terabyte hard drives offering up to 4 terabytes of internal storage in the Vostro 420;
- Standard 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet across full line for fast network access; and
- The Vostro 420 high-performance system also offers dual display capability, and more expandability and flexibility with 10 total USB ports and seven total PCI/PCIe expansion slots for more network, sound or graphics cards.
On top of that, Dell claims to have added other bits and bobs as a result of customer feedback:
- The latest in Intel technology and performance with the Intel G45 Express chipset;
- Optional Blu-Ray Disk drives for data storage and video playback;
- PS/2 and serial ports to enable use of older devices; and
- The Vostro 420 offers an eSATA connector to transfer data to an external storage device faster than with USB.
It's not clear whether Dell's feedback loop includes the UK, but it probably still has some work to do to become the UK's most popular Del:
