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Allow choosing XP or Linux or Vista (or dual-booting any 2) on your subnotebook 2 days ago jmxz 7
SB Questions for Michael: Best Way to Buy 2 days ago kara_k 8
Publish the Vista to XP downgrade numbers! 2 days ago aikiwolfie 9
Give EVERY idea a status tag. Aug 14 winoffice 35
Vista upgrades for Latitude E should cost less Aug 13 yehuda 1
Offer an alternative power supply Aug 11 jscott 10
Maximum RAM Standard Aug 10 getgreg 11
Limit Ideastorm's Embeded Graphics Size (Width) Aug 6 brokencrystal 10
Announce which nonprofit organizations received the $1000 from the IdeaStorm Environmental Contest. Aug 6 jmxz 1
Dell Studio 15 fan noise Aug 6 sebasti3n 3
ESX VMware Aug 6 comprevolution 1
Reduce the size/weight of the power adapter Aug 6 yagogak 7
Reading comprehension tests and remedial english training for Dell executives Aug 4 jervis961 15
Always prefer DEDICATED Graphics Card Laptops Jul 30 it-professional 3
FREE Beer with every Ubuntu system sold Jul 30 badblood 29
Mini Desktops Need Better Specs! Jul 29 aikiwolfie 7
Dell: improve customer CHOICE - urge Ubuntu to include MULTIPLE desktops! Jul 29 phubert 10
Avoid FOXCONN motherboards in later models Jul 27 tom66 13
Include a totally free ANTIVIRUS Jul 26 estebanhillcoat 16
Quit forcing McAfee subscriptions Jul 26 kyliemanders 6
Try to push Adobe to fix their Flash Player. Jul 25 linux-user 7
Larger font size for entry of comments, etc. Jul 23 j_hallgren 14
Contribute Code to Ubuntu Jul 23 loneowais 13
Match HP's Vista refund of $200 for people who reject the pre-installed Vista EULA. Jul 21 jmxz 4
Lose the category 'COMING SOON' Jul 21 badblood 3
Offer a Ubuntu based tablet PC Jul 19 mgrunde 12
When confiring a computer offer Web Browsers as a sofware choice Jul 18 badblood 7
Open Source Bundle Option for MS PC's Jul 16 arhere 7
Offer windows server 2008 on all your pcs Jul 16 kevstar31 8
SAVE WINDOWS FOR WORKGROUPS (Win 3.11) Jul 16 aikiwolfie 46
Discount coupons for top Ideastorm users Jul 16 bbr 10
Display Noise level and Watt usage for systems Jul 16 bbr 4
A new buying process Jul 14 ccpljat 23
Goodbye Dell, you'll be missed... Jul 14 okroger104 25
Live Boot Jul 14 jprin3 3
New Product idea Jul 12 sdweddington 4
Stay price competitive with Apple Jul 9 jmxz 14
Magnet latch Jul 8 ksnipersixfour 15
Aysmetric dual-core computer (1 low-power to save power when idle; 1 high-power one when active) Jul 7 jmxz 5
Offer a comparison feature Jul 6 tgreenc 10
Fast Computers Jul 6 gamer128 51
Buy a laptop, get free ipod SHOULD = buy a laptop, get free ZUNE Jul 5 chylag123 12
Laptop or Notebook with native support for two external monitors Jul 1 techincc 12
Rename Dell to Vostro Jul 1 napa 12
OCZ Core series SSD should be offered on Dell systems Jul 1 jervis961 13
make a desktop that actually fits on a desk... Jun 30 bjizle 7
Another comment from Michael Dell on Ideastorm. Jun 30 jmxz 8
Integrated Monitor Jun 30 inczo757 8
ID Cards that link with SSN and Brith Cert..Ect. Jun 30 tammylhoward 9
Can we come to an agreement to delete old ideas in negative points? Jun 28 jervis961 73
Put Ubuntu on sale at the same time as Windows (unfair to Ubuntu sales count if we install it afterwords) Jun 26 brett_alton 9
Re-think & redesign rack-mount methods Jun 25 phubert 7
Text is going over the page Jun 23 badblood 23
Do not merge ideas until you can unmerge them. Jun 21 winoffice 17
STOCK SHARES Jun 20 wendy 4
How about another update on the highest voted ideas. Jun 19 jmxz 57
Offer IdeaStormers To R&D Their Own Ideas Jun 19 simon_n 2
Provide settings map between monitor models to match a monitor being replaced Jun 19 phubert 15
Dell needs to listen to customers and stop adding junk like shortcut links to Ebay to desktops. Jun 18 jervis961 3
Don't charge up to $50 more to downgrade from Vista to XP Jun 17 jervis961 43
Make 3 Year Warranty Default on all your PCs/Laptop. Jun 16 thebittersea 38
Dell Home Server Jun 16 plafay 6
Maintain a FULL customer profile for home OR business users. Jun 16 phubert 11
WAMP Stack Jun 16 ramaseshanr 4
CoolPipes Jun 13 simon_n 10
Delivery Time - Please Reduce. Jun 13 pablohs 10
Faster booting Jun 11 ramaseshanr 22
Up to 16 GB of RAM on Dell Precision Workstation Laptops Jun 11 workpenguin 1
use open hardware Jun 10 bootdoc1 2
Advertise your Linux boxes as "Green" Jun 9 jmxz 3
Personal computer for cats Jun 9 badblood 33
Webcam with Nightvision Jun 9 baurth 2
Explain why http://www.dell.com/open now gets me to Windows stuff, but not Linux stuff. Jun 5 jmxz 22
Acer poised to push Linux - Will DELL be left behind? Jun 5 phubert 26
OSX like Lunix bsaed OS Jun 2 kingnewby 10
Become a Linux leader, make Windows the option Jun 2 jonsmirl 25
Let your customers choose which Internet Search company you sell them to. Jun 2 jmxz 20
Laptop Skins that produce solar energy Jun 1 danieljoerg 17
Hot-swappable laptop batteries. May 31 jmxz 27
Stop using porprietary parts! May 28 joes15 4
Out-Law Small Print! May 28 aikiwolfie 7
Warn Laptop Customers No Warranty Coverage Outside USA May 27 gear 28
Improve your high-end (>$1000) PCs - Apple's doing well there. May 23 jmxz 3
If Apple is poised to take Microsoft down... DELL needs to help UBUNTU become the APPLE alternative! May 23 phubert 37
Optical mice only please May 22 falbert 26
STOP MERGING until you get an Unmerge feature. May 21 jmxz 11
Monitors with flash memory reader May 18 guindog 4
Display Packaging Needs LESS Foam May 12 lyonadmiral 4
The same hardware options on your Ubuntu Inspiron 530 as your FreeDOS Inspiron 530 May 12 jmxz 5
Stop Advertising Windows Vista On Your Linux Pages May 11 aikiwolfie 7
Programmers keyboard May 9 johnh619 4
MARKET linux PCs for real, and Open Office, for real May 7 chopdoc 19
Public Education May 6 infinitelink 24
Drop the Inspiron line of notebooks May 5 canadaboy 7
Allow anyone to get any product in any channel (home, business, etc.) on the Dell site. May 4 winoffice 3
Dell Small Business vs Dell Home May 2 jamesmoroni1 39
proprietary memory May 2 pistaccio 9
Heavier weight Ubuntu images. May 1 jmxz 6
Pacifist Patriot computers. Apr 30 jmxz 14
The "Patriot" 2.0. Made in the customer's country. Apr 30 jmxz 16
The "Patriot"! American Made Apr 30 sa2008 54
Dual Quad Apr 30 darkproteus66 2
Build a Foam Character Contest! Apr 29 claudiaj 5
Solid State Hard Drive Apr 29 pablohs 11
Boot manager Apr 29 pablohs 17
Let us rate Ideas on a scale of 1-10 instead of just up/down. Apr 24 jmxz 12
Discounts for schools when parents buy Dell computers for their child Apr 24 jervis961 11
DON'T BUY RADIO SHACK!!! Apr 23 jervis961 18
Introduce a "No Component" Option When Customizing Apr 23 fahdriyami 27
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Price cut in Half, Dell needs to pass this on to customers Apr 22 hal2001 4
antivirus option for linux ? Apr 19 siger 19
Evaluate using Apple's internally at Dell. Apr 18 jmxz 10
If I ran Dell laptop division Apr 14 steve121 38
64bit Drivers for Vostro Desktops Apr 14 dguillaume 2
Ubuntu on Alienware Apr 13 acelin 22
ubuntu pc's communication Apr 12 siger 7
Don't allow your software vendors to intentionally "annoy" your customers. Apr 11 jmxz 1
Sun Shade for laptops Apr 11 cresta 5
Software Business Apr 11 amyp 8
There's apparently a new "fastest chip on earth" - sell servers and workstations with them. Apr 10 jmxz 13
Specialized systems based on how they are used Apr 10 jervis961 2
Stop Calling Me By My First Name! Apr 9 celesjalee 20
One PC with many "bodies" Apr 8 gbfabiani 39
Offer the SpursEngine graphics co-processor in Dell systems Apr 8 jervis961 5
Dell: catch up with your competition - offer BETTER Ubuntu systems! Apr 7 phubert 17
Idea- Dell staff should read the various blogs that discuss Dell. Apr 6 jmxz 3
Work on resolution of Ubuntu hard drive issue Apr 4 andrewc231 17
Dell: START an industry panel to show government how to MAKE IT WORK Apr 4 phubert 18
Dell should provide the same support for Ubuntu and OSS that Sun does! Apr 4 phubert 5
Microsoft will extend life of Windows XP - Idea: Dell, make sure they let you put it on your computers. Apr 4 jmxz 15
Custimizing home computers Apr 3 karlgo 17
Is OFFSHORING harmful in an economic downturn? Apr 3 phubert 15
Dell: don't restrict teenagers from site participation! Apr 3 phubert 29
approval ratings on ideas Apr 2 jdelidc 5
Make IdeaStorm only show a few lines of each idea on the "list" mode. Apr 2 jmxz 9
New BOX Desktop Apr 2 timsmith 8
Give the same discounts to open source models as Windows models Mar 31 bashveank 5
DO something about the "click click" noise of laptop hard drives!!! Mar 30 cestuila 73
A Media Vault product like the HP 2100 Mar 30 jmxz 4
Restore the M1330n to the Open Source PCs Section of Dell.com Mar 29 aikiwolfie 16
intels atom Mar 28 generalchaos13 1
Bring Back Original Dell Quailty ! Mar 27 hal2001 2
Design a UMPC to counter HP's mini-note 2133 Mar 27 okroger104 252
Do NOT merge the votes when you merge dupes - then users can vote against duplicate ideas. Mar 25 jmxz 16
Clean up the place!! Mar 25 jervis961 14
Need screen protectors Mar 23 vipul2020 10
Highlight Words Dell Doesn't Like! Mar 17 aikiwolfie 19
Proposed change to editing our ideas Mar 17 jervis961 6
create leasing service Mar 14 siger 10
Offer Printers and drivers for ALL operating systems. Mar 13 pudgyone 4
Let Us Customize The Paginate Settings Mar 13 winoffice 2
Release IdeaStorm Source to Public Mar 13 felonyboy 5
RESTORE our ability to EDIT our own IDEAS- with Dell Moderation! Mar 12 phubert 79
Ubuntu (RED) Mar 12 daniel117 12
Have Ubuntu on Dell One Mar 12 daniel117 11
Put your (*very* nice) Precision Linux desktops on your http://dell.com/open page Mar 11 jmxz 10
5k or 10k character max limit on new ideas Mar 11 jdelidc 8
Beefier (Ubuntu Pre-Installed) Desktop Series needed for powerusers Mar 10 sethloco 27
Disable swap file or Virtual Memory for machines with high RAM. Mar 8 yaknowwat 20
Remove stubid welcome text. Mar 8 smarsen 12
Custom artwork on laptops instead of just a color Mar 7 jo9100 11
Windows Workstation 2008 benchmarks much better than Vista - keep XP as an option on all models until you offer Windows 2008 on them. Mar 7 jmxz 4
Make it clear what is included in a purchase Mar 5 spudz777 2
Make 64 bit Vista a standard OS option for all SMB laptops Mar 4 stewie 5
Dell: Include SMART Hard Drive application on all systems sold with a rotating hard drive and any SMART enabled device. Mar 4 jorge 5
Dell needs to follow through on promises Mar 3 jervis961 20
new Intel Atom processor Mar 3 helmecj01 11
Complete Systems (with all the accesories + Penryn chips) with Free Software OSs Mar 3 sudheera 2
INTERNAL THERMOMETER Mar 2 mfrankd316 15
Combination Ultra-Portable Docking "Notebook" and Zero-Footprint Computer Base Mar 1 kenjennings 4
Implement a voting system scaled from -10 to 10 points... Feb 29 markvs624 14
Consider the software used by Ubuntu BrainStorm to replace the SalesForce software powering IdeaStorm. Feb 29 jmxz 23
Dell: Make the Default RAM selection Range from Zero (0) Bytes (or Gigabytes) to the Max Possible and preset it to the "Dell Recommended" selection on all Systems in all Countries and Galaxy's Feb 29 jorge 11
2 GB of memory STANDARD Feb 29 andrewpmk 18
Dell: Issue a statement on where you stand/fall in the newly release Vista "Capable" Logo fiasco statement by Dell and the mess of lawyers. Feb 28 jorge 6
Include battery "dummies" to prevent battery degradation. Feb 28 busterlee 5
Dell: Help your fallen Corporate Buddie Billy Gates, Create the Vista Computer! Feb 28 jorge 27
memory options for Dell desktops and laptops Feb 27 sinan_kaptanoglu 2
Make it easier to buy components to repair broken Dell computers. Feb 25 jmxz 6
Change the way ideas get viewed! Feb 25 q0987 5
Offer BOTH the 32 bits AND the 64 bits versions of all Windows Vista editions (Home Basic/Premium, Business and Ultimate) on all PCs Feb 24 winoffice 52
Stop Ripping Off Your Customers! Feb 23 aikiwolfie 7
Put an audio clip of the sound your computers make on the web site. Feb 21 jmxz 11
Let us leave the laptop plugged in for as long as we want without negatively affecting the battery. Feb 21 sotopheavy 5
Fix Ubuntu M1330n Keyboard Settings Feb 21 aikiwolfie 15
CO 2 Cartridge for Silent, Efficient Processor Cooling and Extending Battery Life Feb 21 doctorcox 9
Reduce the number of Dell advertisements, on the Dell website. Feb 21 bbr 1
Linux for Business Line of Computers Feb 20 jctosu 9
Multitouch touchpads exclusively for laptops sold with linux Feb 20 sotopheavy 9
Prevent laptop overcharge Feb 20 sotopheavy 13
Get GNU/Linux Machines in Retail Stores Feb 14 dpic 736
Sell Linux stuff Feb 14 badblood 27
more linux choices Feb 13 capnskyler 5
Provide more processor options for linux desktops Feb 13 rebresb 6
Cla-ri-ty & Co-he-rence! Feb 13 cestuila 9
Never use a Dell Sales Representative Feb 12 mmckune 13
Let me replace the Windows Key for a Linux key in the keyboard Feb 12 silencer 31
Facial Recognition System Feb 6 junior 8
Run your computer with body heat Feb 5 mkmaster78 8
A Hardware-enforced Read-Only hard drive for the OS. Feb 5 jmxz 6
Please have Dell Customer Care Reps that Speak CLEAR ENGLISH Feb 4 syrics06 10
Create a Linux-based Dell PVR with no need for monthly service fees Jan 31 jeverettk 21
Put XPSes into the Linux Pool Jan 31 jeverettk 13
Dell should be the first company to offer Word with out the rest of Office. Jan 31 sugarbear 98
Ubuntu Line [ Give us the choice of including hardware that is only OFFICIALLY supported on windows units ] Jan 31 tekhawk 23
Idea: Ubuntu progress produces good PR - it's likea free Dell ad in every linux article Jan 31 jmxz 4
No non-free wireless firmware! Jan 31 slashdotaccount 14
Linux Register If You Were Not Able To Get an Ubuntu System Jan 31 felimwhiteley 2
M1330N (whats missing) NVIDIA GPU, Finger Print Reader Why? Jan 30 tekhawk 42
Make Interchangable Laptop Covers/Skinz! Jan 30 melissacann2 10
Keep XP on all models until WIndows 7 comes out - even Microsoft seems to be pointing that way Jan 28 jmxz 47
Heated Keyboard Jan 27 itybitybear 8
Support Virtualization Jan 26 jrv 6
Skype Preinstalled on 1420N Ubuntu system "Optinal" Jan 25 tekhawk 11
Develop A "No OS" Compatibility Testing Tool Jan 25 aikiwolfie 13
I don't want Adobe Elements Studio! Jan 24 thomasp94 2
Develop A Linux/Ubuntu Compatibility Testing Tool Jan 24 aikiwolfie 8
Make Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) enabled by default or allow user to enable Jan 23 shinypup 16
Warn your customers of impending changes to their systems coming Feb 12. Jan 21 jmxz 6
Hey, Microsoft now lets you run Vista Home Premium under Linux. Jan 21 jmxz 6
Fuse HD DVD and Blue RAy as standard package on all Dell's notebook , Inspiron and XPS Jan 21 bryan14c 5
Protect the LCD screens Jan 21 vardanian 9
Change Dell Direct Media with "mythtv+linux" (free software) Jan 19 jalberto 23
Programmable Power-strip Jan 19 chewd 6
CD ISO file for the reinstallation CD for Windows XP and Windows Vista on the download web site. Jan 19 helmecj01 6
Please make available your customized ubuntu CD to download! Jan 18 macmoh 5
Is even Sears more of a thought leader in computing today than Dell? Jan 18 jmxz 6
OS X on Dell Hardware Jan 18 daveander 16
True Entertainment System Jan 17 ericjilot 6
To pursue GREEN, promote LINUX (or XP) over Vista Jan 17 phubert 102
switch to LED monitors Jan 16 yardsale 63
Make all your printers support PCL Jan 16 kevstar31 17
INCLUDE a KUBUNTU INSTALL CD with each Ubuntu system sold! Jan 15 phubert 49
Get Microsoft to pay you a lot (or give you huge discounts) for 32-bit-Vista. Jan 14 jmxz 12
Offer 64-bit Versions of Windows Vista Jan 14 jefisher 21
Optional extended keyboard with 5 user-assigned key values Jan 14 phubert 38
More information concernig the product Jan 13 apokalypse 11
Giveaway Jan 12 junior 5
need to offer games free! Jan 12 junior 13
Release a business version of the Alienware doublewide curved DLP display with LED illumination Jan 9 jervis961 15
Encrypted hard drive (or at least home directory/desktop/etc) on all Laptops by default. Jan 8 jmxz 6
Why not give Ubuntu CD's with every new PC? Jan 7 twright 21
Make dell.com look like IdeaStorm Jan 7 mkr 18
Intergrated, before. VGA, NOW! Jan 6 fahdriyami 7
option for no optical drive on low end Linux systems Jan 5 dgl 15
Fewer Notebook Screws Jan 4 cjbarth 10
4GB Upgrade a ripoff? Jan 2 bobhalford 21
DX10 Videocards for the M1710 laptops! 12/31/07 americanmetal 4