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    Dell Does YouTube.com

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Andrew Baxter, Jun 22, 2006.

  1. Andrew Baxter

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    Either Dell employees are sick of the company's poor stock price and taking their own stab at advertising, or this is just a cheaperway of making ads than paying some kid to say "Dude, you're getting a Dell!". Dellemployees are now talking up theproducts they design on YouTube.com.

    If you visit user profile DellVlog you'll see the list of videos Dell has posted to YouTube.com

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    Dell Precisionmarketing directorDarryl Ward talks about the Precision M90 on YouTube.com

    It's quite obvious each piece has been fairly carefully scripted, even though the guy doing the interview pretends to be an uninformed but interested reporter looking to ask questions the public is burning to know the answers to. It's not exactly an attempt at viral marketing, such as Lenovo did with LenovoTapes.com, but it is setup in a way that it's supposed to appear candid and "cool". At least, I think it's supposed to appear cool.

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    Notebook engineering manager Sean O'Neal talks about the M1210 on YouTube.com

    Make of it what you will, it's interesting to see some of the people behind the scenes of Dell, but it comes off a bit too much like a QVC shopping channel advertisement in my humble opinion. I'm off to search for a Dell user on MySpace.com, see what they're up to on that site...

    Dell YouTube.com Videos:

    M1210 Video

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    M1710 Video

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    Dell Precision Video

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    Andrew Baxter, Jun 22, 2006
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  2. Tim

    Tim Notebook Virtuoso

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    That is pretty weird. :p But it is a good idea at the same time...
    Tim
     
    Tim, Jun 22, 2006
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  3. wobble987

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    Yeah, i think that it is good to see "behind the scene" look of what dell think of their product. the only think i disagree/hate about the video is the after-phrase, such as saying "cool", "very good", "excellent" at the end of most sentence.
     
    wobble987, Jun 23, 2006
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  4. otaku

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    Definetly cool.
     
    otaku, Jun 23, 2006
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  5. Fred from NYC

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    What is the purpose of F.E.A.R. running on the big screen in the Precision video? Was that game designed on a Precision workstation?

    The presenter of the M1210 keeps mentioning how small this notebook is but it looks quite big in the video, definitely bigger than I had expected.
     
    Fred from NYC, Jun 23, 2006
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