Jason Dunn
01-24-2008, 08:00 PM
<br /><img border="0" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com//dht/auto/1201196615.usr1.png" alt="" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.windowsvista.com/joinred" target="_blank">Microsoft</a> and <a href="http://www.dell.com/joinred" target="_blank">Dell</a> have teamed up with the <a href="http://www.joinred.com/" target="_blank">(RED)</a> team to raise money to fight AIDS in Africa, which continues to be a horrible epidemic - in some African countries AIDS is found in over 35% of the population. Dell is <a href="http://i.dell.com/images/global/products/flash/red/index.html" target="_blank">selling special versions</a> of their XPS ONE, XPS M1330 laptop, XPS M1530 laptop, and the 948 All in One printer. I have the XPS M1330 myself, and it's an amazing notebook - very powerful yet still reasonably small. If you purchase a PRODUCT (RED) XPS M1330, $50 of your purchase will be donated to fight AIDS in Africa. How far will that go? How about 416 single-dose treatments to help prevent the transmission of an AIDS-infected mother to her unborn child? Or it would cover a year of hot meals and school materials to a child orphaned by AIDS. The best part is that this $50 comes out of Dell's profits - these products are no more expensive than the non PRODUCT (RED) versions.<br /><br />Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED (Microsoft's contribution) includes special wallpapers (six of them), Windows Sidebar gadgets (two of them), one screensaver, and one Windows DreamScene. Here's a sample of one of the desktop wallpapers. I love the design of it, though it would have been nice if the Dell and Windows logo were transparent (maybe there's an alternate version of the wallpaper without the logos).<br /><br /><img border="1" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/500/dht/auto/1201197941.usr1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><div style="page-break-after: always;"><span style="display: none;"> </span></div><br />Here's a shot of what the PRODUCT (RED) version of Dell's XPS One looks like. The back looks amazing, though I wish they could have carried the red theme into the front as well.<br /><br /><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/500/dht/auto/1201197565.usr1.jpg" alt="" /><br />Here's what the front looks like:<br /><br /><img border="1" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/500/dht/auto/1201198490.usr1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />A great cause worth supporting, so if you need (or want) a new computer, definitely keep Dell's PRODUCT (RED) products at the top of your list.