Dell eyeing handheld gaming device

Dell is focusing its beady eye on the handheld gaming scene, with a potential view to entering the handheld hardware market it's being reported.

"You know, that's definitely one that's on the radar screen, but we have no plans to talk about anything today", Dell's gaming boss Abizar Vakharia told PCPlus.co.uk at a recent press event when quizzed about future plans for a handheld.

It's speculated that, should Dell go ahead with plans for a handheld games device, it could be an Ultra-Mobile PC as opposed to a dedicated gaming platform. We doubt Nintendo - or Sony - are quaking in their boots though.

via cvg

Sounds interesting, If it has a bigger screen than the PSP I'll buy one, if not well just emulate it on PSP :rofl:

Sony and Ninty will eb quaking in their boots if its higher spec than the psp and has a touch screen (un-likely though) also if its open source, sony will be crying like babies, and maby the psp will eb resounded to the depths of our odz n sodz drawer like the GameGear,GBA & DreamCast.

Shame itz dell though, there pc are terrible looking and same witht he laptops can you imagen a dell portable it would be made of crappy plastic that horrible grainy black stuff, and a cheep dell logo that clips in place like all their desktops, Ewwwwwwwwwww

Gaming device? Unlikely... A new mobile device? Possibly.

I wouldn't buy anything from Dell anyway. I think a lot of people share the same opinion.

I refuse to buy computers from Dell, mainly because I've seen how shoddily they're generally put together. I'd never want to buy a small device from them, since they'd probably put it together even worse.

I didn't want a dell laptop to begin with as my ASUS laptop has served me well. However, I wanted a good gaming laptop and the Dell XPS M1710 was the one for me. I have no problems with this thing and it just flies through whatever I throw at it :) This is also one of the only laptops that will allow you to overclock the CPU through the bios.

Sonict

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I didn't want a dell laptop to begin with as my ASUS laptop has served me well. However, I wanted a good gaming laptop and the Dell XPS M1710 was the one for me. I have no problems with this thing and it just flies through whatever I throw at it :) This is also one of the only laptops that will allow you to overclock the CPU through the bios.

Sonict

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I was looking into buying one of those....how fast can you overclock it?

gaming + laptop = nonsense.

laptops should not be used for gaming, they run badly and it's not what they are designed for.

i dont trust Dell laptops, everyone i have used has run badly with emualtors (particualrly winuae) even when the spec is supposedly "easily" enough to handle it.

as a result, i wouldnt touch a Dell handheld with a 60ft pole.

Dell sucks, no matter how great people claim they are or from customer satisfaction. I really don't want to see a Dell handheld console, it would probably be exactly like the PSP (and fail like the PSP.)

Dell sucks, I'd know. My freaking laptop lost sound a month after the warranty expired, so now I need to use my usb headset to listen to music. My fan is too loud as well. Don't trust Dell..

I don't like Dell as well, but if they make a handheld console, they definately need a software company (like they do with their PC's).
And i guess it will be Windows.
And that's a good thing to happen (oh no! all Windows user now scream nooo! Windows is crap!).
Yes it is, on personal computers. But i would like to have a Windows based Handheld. Image all the games and emulators.

It would like to hear them screaming "Windows is crap", right when i get my Dell handheld and play full speed SNES right out of the box.

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I don't like Dell as well, but if they make a handheld console, they definately need a software company (like they do with their PC's).
And i guess it will be Windows.
And that's a good thing to happen (oh no! all Windows user now scream nooo! Windows is crap!).
Yes it is, on personal computers. But i would like to have a Windows based Handheld. Image all the games and emulators.

It would like to hear them screaming "Windows is crap", right when i get my Dell handheld and play full speed SNES right out of the box.

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Microsoft does make a handheld OS already (though it seems to me that it has gone out of style). What your suggesting is sort of silly. MS would make their own handheld device (and it is actually rumored to be in the works) before teaming up with a shitty company like Dell, who have never tapped into the game industry. Mass ordering cheap Parts and last years decent video card != experience in the game console industry.

hack it.... i mean.... gp32 versin 1, that was a pain to open, and too easy to brick.... yeah, i brocked it.... i spent about 400 bux on it, (bank error, ebay stuff), wee.