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    Is this a way to give our collective input to Dell?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Alcal, Nov 16, 2010.

  1. Alcal

    Alcal Notebook Consultant

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    So I stumbled upon this site: IdeaStorm |

    It seems to be a Dell site where consumers can offer ideas for products that they want to see, but it seems that people also offer up proposed updates to existing products. We could perhaps band together and compile a list of the most essential things we want to see in an M11x (or M13x) r3, and then try to get the entire NBR/alienware forum community to upvote it. I know the engineers know what they're doing but a bit too often, they miss the core essentials that we the consumers want.

    Does this seem at all feasible or is it just totally useless? In general, the site seems pretty cool. I wonder if Dell ever looks at what gets posted in it.
     
  2. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yes, just look at some of the various ideas submitted to IdeaStorm. Several have been implemented and many have responses from Dell in the comments.

    Its something Dell implemented some time ago to gather feedback from us, their customers.
     
  3. Alcal

    Alcal Notebook Consultant

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    So it seems. I guess the point of my original post was to ask:
    a) What do you guys most want to see in Dellienware's next reiteration of their smallest notebook
    b) If I were to post that to IdeaStorm, would anybody actually feel inclined to go and support it so that Dell might catch wind of exactly what we want.
     
  4. ebondefender

    ebondefender Notebook Evangelist

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    It sounds like a good idea. Companies like Mountain Dew are always looking for consumer input, so why not Dell? (Unless their one of those corporations that only accepts "creative ideas" from men in suits in their board room.)

    We could always show our collective ideas by telling them that "We are Borg," and "You will be assimilated." hehe okay that was bad.