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Dell and Blizzard worked together to create this Dell XPS M1730 World of Warcraft (WoW) Laptop.  The laptop has WoW artwork inside and out. Additionally, rare items and a backpack filled with awesome WoW goodies are included with this purchase. Other features include:

• 17″ HD widescreen
• Illuminated speaker grills and faction specific Honor Badges
• Back-lit keyboard stays awake as long as you can
• Track your stats with the world’s first built-in notebook Logitech  GamePanel  LCD
• Enhanced graphics with NVIDIA^®  SLI^TM  technology and AGEIA PhysX  Mobile Technology
• Pre-loaded with World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade and all major game patches
• Golden Ticket for a FigurePrints^TM  custom statue of your actual in-game World of Warcraft character with your actual armor and weapons
• World of Warcraft Beta Club Key Card with a key to future World of Warcraft beta tests
• World of Warcraft and The Burning Crusade Collector’s Edition Account Upgrade Certificates
• Exclusive desktop background artwork and screensavers
• Additional loot like a behind the scenes DVD, soundtrack, Warcraft novels, strategy guides, trading cards, etc

How much will avid WoW users pay to dominate the virtual world? A lot- the Dell XPS M1730 retails for $4,500.  Click here for more information!

So here’s the super secret Dell Latitude XT Tablet. It has a 12.1-inch WXGA (1280 x 800) in CCFL, Capacitive touchscreen with palm detection (which leads many to think that the XT Tablet will have multi-touch), Intel Core 2 Solo or Duo ULV at 1.06 GHz or 1.2GHz respectively, ATI Radeon X1250 UMA Graphics, 40GB or 80GB 4200 RPM drive, 120GB 5400 RPM drive, or 32GB or 64GB SSD, up to 3GB of memory, HSDPA or EVDO rev. A, Bluetooth 2.0, ExpressCard 54 slots, SD slots, biometric reader, 5 hours of battery life. The XT Tablet is 3.57 pounds heavy, and only 1″ thick! Prices start at $2,500.

Engadget seemed to note the main flaw of the Dell Latitude XT Tablet: its price. “A base price $2500 is too much. We’re sorry, we know this machine is pretty rad, but it’s true. For a grand less you can snag an X61 with more power, and, we’d wager, more of that ThinkPad ruggedness. Ordinary consumers — even many businesses — will not pay that kind of a premium for this machine.”

This is getting a little old.  Come on, Dell, just when we think your laptops are safe– one of them explodes again! Looks like this laptop exploded in Shanghai.  I must say, though, Dells certainly do go out with a bang!

Colorware is a company that sells custom painted computers (Macbooks, Macbook Pros, Dells, iMacs) and Video iPods and iPod Nanos, for an increased price. Or, if you so choose, you can send in an electronic device that you already own, and they’ll paint it for a given price. It costs $74 to paint a Video iPod ($94 for a combination of two colours), $64 for an iPod Nano ($84 for a combination), $449 for a Macbook, and $99 for a Mac Mini.

I shoud have seen it coming: a Dell Battery Recall. After many Dell laptops have been recently exploding, Dell finally recalls batteries on Dell Latitude, Inspiron, XPS and Dell Precision Mobile Workstation notebooks. How many batteries? Oh, just 4.1 million batteries, making this “the largest safety recall in the history of the consumer electronics industry.”

Potentially affected batteries were sold with the following models of Dell notebook computers or separately as secondary batteries:

• Latitude: D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810
• Inspiron: 500M, 510M, 600M, 700M, 710M, 6000, 6400, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 9400, E1505, E1705
• Precision: M20, M60, M70, M90
• XPS: XPS, XPS Gen2, XPS M170, XPS M1710

The affected batteries were shipped between April 1 2004 and July 18 2006. The funny thing is that it was really Sony who manufactured the defective batteries for Dell, not Dell, yet Dell is taking full responsibility for the recall.

Learn how to check if your Dell battery is affected at Dell’s Official Battery Recall Site.