Vittorio Pasteris

Via Gadgetlab

Dell’s new Zino HD mini-computers look good enough to eat. And, even more important if you are the sole geek of the the house, good enough to put in the living room.

The Zino HD wants to sit by your TV, and is a full-on entertainment PC. As ever, it’s hard to get a handle on precisely what a Dell machine will actually do, as the configuration options are almost endless. Here instead, is a list of the options.

All of the 8” x 8” boxes run on some kind of AMD Athlon Dual-Core processor and offer a choice of Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Ubuntu Linux. You can stuff in up to a terabyte of hard drive space, 8GB RAM and opt for a rewritable DVD drive or Blu-ray.

Via CrunchGear

Brian Solis, the “next-gen” PR dude, just got some hot shots of the Dell Adamo. Color us impressed. His photos show a laptop with the sex of a MacBook Air with a little more of the hard edged aesthetic familiar to those who enjoy cheese graters and shipping containers.

Via Gizmodo

Today the WSJ reports Dell’s closer than ever, with prototypes built in two different styles and two competing platforms.

The two styles may seem familiar to you, as demonstrated by my totally fake images above. One, we’ll call “iPhone,” is described by the Wall Street Journal as “a touchscreen but no physical keyboard.” The other, which we’ll call “Pre,” is a “slider-style phone with a keypad and that slides from beneath the screen.” Dell is reportedly exploring both Windows Mobile and Android, and has both operating systems running on its prototypes. The WSJ cites those always helpful “people familiar with the matter,” and says the formal move into the phone market could happen as early as February, perhaps just in time for the 3GSM global phone biz show in Barcelona on the 15th.