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I've oft wondered if these would sell better without the Dell branding. Put a nondescript logo on the back (no word), remove all "Dell". This really annoyed me

by latch 11y ago

I've oft wondered if these would sell better without the Dell branding. Put a nondescript logo on the back (no word), remove all "Dell". This really annoyed me years ago when I spent a small fortune on a beautiful TV that had "COMPANY" in white letters on the otherwise perfect dark bezel.

benevol 11y ago
> sell better without the Dell branding Of course it would be nice, but you can't seriously ask a commercial company to remove its identity from its products.
- rahimnathwani 11y ago
  It doesn't need to be on the same side as the screen, though. Neither my iPad nor my Nexus have any branding visible on the front of the device. The screen's border is perfectly black. Even the hardware button on the iPad is almost invisible. Sure, the iPad has a big apple on the back, but I never see that when I'm using it as I can't see around corners.
  - edvinbesic 11y ago
    This. You already know you're using a Dell machine. There is not point to advertise to the user. You might want to advertise to everyone else and put it on the back of the lid, which is fine, but I just want a clean bezel. It's the same annoyance I have with all the stickers you used to get on any PC, not sure what that situation is like now.
mseebach 11y ago
Why would the branding matter? Any halfway serious person knows that Dell makes decent (if slightly boring and enterprisy) stuff, and that it's about what you do with it that matters, anyway. The hipsters are going to see that it's not a Macbook from a mile away, Dell logo or not. If anything, I myself would be likely to assume that an unbranded laptop is something dodgy picked out of a supermarket clearance bin. > a beautiful TV that had "COMPANY" in white letters on the otherwise perfect dark bezel That distracts from watching the screen and so actually affects the primary operation of the TV. I'd argue that's a very different matter than the presence of a logo on a laptop lid that you can't even see when using the computer.
- JadeNB 11y ago
  > I'd argue that's a very different matter than the presence of a logo on a laptop lid that you can't even see when using the computer. I haven't used a Dell for a long time, and never a laptop, but the other commenters seem to be discussing a logo on the bezel itself, directly visible to the person using the computer.

by latch 11y ago

benevol 11y ago

> sell better without the Dell branding Of course it would be nice, but you can't seriously ask a commercial company to remove its identity from its products.

rahimnathwani 11y ago
It doesn't need to be on the same side as the screen, though. Neither my iPad nor my Nexus have any branding visible on the front of the device. The screen's border is perfectly black. Even the hardware button on the iPad is almost invisible. Sure, the iPad has a big apple on the back, but I never see that when I'm using it as I can't see around corners.
- edvinbesic 11y ago
  This. You already know you're using a Dell machine. There is not point to advertise to the user. You might want to advertise to everyone else and put it on the back of the lid, which is fine, but I just want a clean bezel. It's the same annoyance I have with all the stickers you used to get on any PC, not sure what that situation is like now.

mseebach 11y ago

Why would the branding matter? Any halfway serious person knows that Dell makes decent (if slightly boring and enterprisy) stuff, and that it's about what you do with it that matters, anyway. The hipsters are going to see that it's not a Macbook from a mile away, Dell logo or not. If anything, I myself would be likely to assume that an unbranded laptop is something dodgy picked out of a supermarket clearance bin. > a beautiful TV that had "COMPANY" in white letters on the otherwise perfect dark bezel That distracts from watching the screen and so actually affects the primary operation of the TV. I'd argue that's a very different matter than the presence of a logo on a laptop lid that you can't even see when using the computer.

JadeNB 11y ago
> I'd argue that's a very different matter than the presence of a logo on a laptop lid that you can't even see when using the computer. I haven't used a Dell for a long time, and never a laptop, but the other commenters seem to be discussing a logo on the bezel itself, directly visible to the person using the computer.