Dell Adds Color, Webcam And Fingerprint Reader To Inspiron Notebooks, Killing The Dimension Brand

Congratulations to Dell for catching up with the rest of the notebook makers. While others like Sony, Toshiba, and HP — heck, even Acer and Lenovo — have been offering options like multiple color options, built-in webcams, mobile wireless broadband, and Fingerprint readers in their consumer notebooks, the new Inspiron 1420, 1520/21 and 1720/21 and the XPS m1330 finally have you. Good for you! (To be fair, Dell has offered some of these options on select laptops, but this is the first time they're offering them across the board.)

Oh, Dell also killed the Dimension desktop brand, opting instead to use the former notebook-only Inspiron brand to denote both laptops and desktops for the common folk, and the XPS brand for their performance-oriented high-end -Using computers they have been doing this for a while.