Dell Vostro Desktop Line Gets an A-Plus from Customer
Expandability and Convenience Top the List of Ongoing Improvements
ROUND ROCK, Texas (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) October 16, 2008 --
Dell today announced its redesigned Vostro™
desktop line for small businesses, with enhancements such as increased
storage and expandability based on ongoing customer feedback. Starting
at $319, the Vostro 220, 220s and 420 are available today in North
America, tomorrow in most of South America, followed by Asia Pacific and
Japan Oct. 20, Europe, Middle East and Africa Nov. 3 and Brazil Nov. 11.
For more information, visit dell.com/vostro
and Dell’s new small-business blog direct2dell.com/smallbusiness
to join the conversation.
Dell continues to enhance its Vostro portfolio to address the top
technology issues facing small-business customers. These include
easy-to-use and maintain computer systems, data storage, and quality
service and support, all at a price small businesses can afford.
Building on a strong recommendation rate of 98 percent from current
Vostro customers¹, new Vostro desktops deliver
more of what customers demand in a small-business PC and address many of
their top pain points. Key improvements include:
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Refined industrial design with a glossy front;
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Greater convenience through redesigned optical drive bays;
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Increased internal storage capacity with one terabyte hard drives
offering up to 4 terabytes of internal storage in the Vostro 420;
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Standard 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet across full line for fast
network access; and
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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.
New customer-driven
features have also been added, including:
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The latest in Intel® technology and
performance with the Intel G45 Express chipset;
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Optional Blu-Ray Disk™ drives for data
storage and video playback;
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PS/2 and serial ports to enable use of older devices; and
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The Vostro 420 offers an eSATA connector to transfer data to an
external storage device faster than with USB.
Ideal for small businesses with simple networks, Vostro meets customer
demands for quality, reliability and worry-free services. Small-business
technicians don’t follow scripts and are
specially trained to understand technical issues as well as customers’
unique business environments. ProSupport
services give customers the ability to customize and tailor IT support
options to fit their technical expertise and business needs, including
24/7 proactive maintenance, how-to guidance and popular software support
for non-technical users.
“Even with a strong shift to mobile computing,
desktops continue to be an integral part of most business computing
environments,” said Darrel Ward, director of
commercial desktops, Dell Product Group. “With
a 98-percent recommendation rate on our Ratings & Reviews site,
customers are telling us that they will choose Vostro when it comes time
to buy their next small-business PC.”
ABOUT DELL
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative
technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its
direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services
company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com,
or to communicate directly with Dell via a variety of online channels,
go to www.dell.com/conversations.
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¹Based on cumulative customer ratings and
reviews results on dell.com as of 9-24-08. Cumulative of the customer
ratings for all systems – 547 out of 558
customers total would recommend Vostro desktops.
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