Jason Dunn
01-27-2007, 04:32 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/email_offers_dt?c=ca&cs=CADHS1&l=en&s=dhs' target='_blank'>http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/email_offers_dt?c=ca&cs=CADHS1&l=en&s=dhs</a><br /><br /></div>It's not quite January 30th, the official launch date of Windows Vista, but don't tell Dell that: they quietly released <a href="http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/email_offers_dt?c=ca&cs=CADHS1&l=en&s=dhs">their first batch of Vista based desktop machines</a> today (<a href="http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/email_offers_nb?c=ca&cs=CADHS1&l=en&s=dhs">laptops too</a>). I woke up to find an email from Dell promoting their new batch of systems.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/dell-vista-PC.jpg" /><br /><br />I've been waiting for this moment for quite some time, with various friends and family members waiting on buying new PCs until the official Vista hardware ships. I was thinking (hoping) we'd see the systems running Vista Home Premium ship with nVidia or ATI-based GPUs, but no such luck: the Intel GMA X3000 has the basic requirements to hit DirectX 9 functionality and run the full Aero Glass effect. I haven't done any before/after price comparisons, but these new Vista-based machines don't seem any more expensive than their XP-based counterparts that were being sold last week. You can get into a Vista Home Basic machine for $629 CAD (Athlon 3200+ CPU, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB HD) or a Vista Home Premium machine for $799 (Pentium 4 3.06 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HD). It's time to phone my mother in law and order her a new computer. Have you been waiting to order a Vista machine from Dell or anyone else?