Dell and Threadless Team Up for Funky Laptops
Some of the best Threadless designs are making their way onto Dell-branded laptops.
If you're online at least once a day, chances are you know about Threadless, the t-shirt company that crowd-sources great designs from its users. Today, Threadless announced that it has entered into a deal with Dell that will see the computer maker obtain 11 new designs for Dell Studio laptops and Inspiron Mini netbooks.
Dell has been giving customers the option of placing a laptop cover on the lid of their computer for a while, but until now, users could only choose from the Dell-selected graphics designed by various different artists.
Venture Beat reports that the Dell will be changing up the available Threadless designs a couple of times a year. If your design is chosen, Threadless will pay you a flat licensing fee. Current Threadless designers receive $2,000 in cash, a $500 Threadless gift certificate and an additional $500 in cash each time your design is reprinted.
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wow I wish i could design something
they actually look decent
This ALMOST makes me willing to buy a dell laptop...
I hate Threadless. It caters to the same people that buy KMart art.
screw all of that! i want the Dell Streak!
I designed a shirt, that aped the Ecko design, but had a dolphin in the center instead of a rhino; also the spelling was changed. I think I'd get sued too hard for that one though.
Now if these funky laptops would work as good as they look.
I want it designed with http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_t [...] uflage.jpg
Get a grip Dell, and spend your money on quality control.
wow that was cool.
I want it designed with http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_t [...] uflage.jpg
I'd show the picture I'd want on a laptop, but I've already been banned form Tom's Guide for a week. Shouldn't push it.
I hate Threadless. It caters to the same people that buy KMart art.
I love generic art from superstores! I tear the picture out and put in a print from DeviantArt instead.
KMart doesn't cater to people like me anyways, unless they hide a NSFW 18+ section in the back.
Asus should design something similar to that instead of that awful looking wood/bamboo looking laptop.
Its still a DELL.
That is art? those laptops look like they were rescued from a fire
Cool laptops seriously makes u want to buy a DELL
At least you can choose what you want it too look like now.
Maybe if we could actually see the designs.. but instead we get an awful tiny low res image as per usual
So you can go print the design on your own. They think not!
the dell pc's suck they have bad capacitors
you can dip a turd in gold, but it's still a turd
The guy on the right kinda looks like Seth Green
If only dell could make a laptop as good as it looks.
I agree with the quality control comment! Instead of making them prettier make them actually better quality hardware. This would be a nice concept to follow. Although I highly doubt that Dell will EVER do such a thing. It costs to much money I guess.
Not bad, but I'd rather pay $30 and get it done elsewhere, with a non-DELL laptop.
That dude looks like a massive tool. I would not wear that shirt or rock that NOTbook if I was wet and shirtless in Antarctica.
^I bet you would!^
I am using my laptop for 2 years but each week I change a T-shirt , It is not good idea for me.
You go to a car lot and they have a Ferrari you might say "Wow that’s beautiful" or "Wow that’s fast." Then you look under the hood and realize it’s a Fiero with kit to make it look like a Ferrari. Now you might say "what a piece of crap."
Sadly Joe Consumer doesn't know the difference between a Fiero and a Ferrari when looking under the hood of a PC, so he looks around and see's a bunch of rectangular boxes, but this Dell one had a cool design on it. In the end he buys the Fiero and it does indeed drive. Never having owned a Ferrari he doesn't even notice the difference, and is satisfied with his purchase.
A sucker is born every minute, and if they don't think they are a sucker they will keep coming back to buy your polished turd's, just ask Apple's Marketing Department.