Dell tells me to buy a finger print reader in order to have another color on the system

Posted on August 20th, 2008 in business , wonder why - 5 comments

This is hilarious or there is a color technology out there that requires to scan my finger print in order to show the “bunch o surfers” or some other design on my laptop skin. Really Dell?

see it on the dell site, just select the color scheme as “bunch o surfers”

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DLH August 20, 2008

Is it possible that Dell only manufactured that particular laptop skin/case in the configuration that includes a slot/hole for the integrated biometric reader? If so, you’d have to order the reader with the case, or have a gaping hole in your laptop where the reader should be.

Chandoo August 20, 2008

Pssible… but that would be a gaping hole in the logic of skin designer…. welcome to PHD blog… :)

Jon Peltier August 20, 2008

Maybe Dell’s broadening their market to finger painters.

Retroist August 20, 2008

Were you really interested in that skin? Or just exploring?

richard August 20, 2008

Maybe it’s been fixed. I went there, selected bunch of surfers, went to check out and didn’t get a compatibility issue.

Pretty funny error though. If someone else replicates it, let me know.

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