AUSTIN, Texas — WidowPC, the industry’s leading gaming laptop boutique, announced today that they have photographic evidence of actual “Dell laptop customer-hostages” fleeing the Dell campus in Round Rock, Texas. “The customer exodus stems from a combination of Dell’s exploding laptop fiasco, WidowPC’s price point on their Sting 517D(TM) laptop (starting at roughly $100 lower than Dell’s XPS product) culminating in a subliminal feeling of being held hostage by Dell’s robotic phone staff,” said Jake M., an actual “Dell customer-hostage.”
Dell(R) recently faced massive recalls after photographs of exploding Dell laptops surfaced on the Internet. “WidowPC has never used exploding batteries in our laptops,” said Joshua McClure, chief executive at WidowPC. “Our complex statistical customer analysis has shown that customers don’t appreciate randomly exploding products especially when offered in combination with a lack of service and support.”
In addition to a notable lack of incendiary devices, WidowPC’s dual core Sting 517D(TM) gaming laptop also features Intel’s latest Core 2 Duo Merom CPU, an NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7950 GTX video card with 512MB DDR3 memory, a 17-inch Wide Screen 1920 x 1200 WUXGA SuperBrite LCD, DVD-RAM technology, up to 4 GB of high speed DDR2 memory, 200 GB of fast SATA hard drive storage, high speed wireless, Bluetooth, TV tuner, memory card slots, multimedia connections, $400 in free software, and lifetime tech support from real humans in America. Pricing starts at $2,195 - roughly $100 less than Dell’s XPS(TM) product.
About WidowPC
WidowPC, the industry’s leading gaming computer boutique, specializes in hand-crafting high end computers tailored for customers who demand the highest levels of performance and support for mission critical computing. WidowPC has won editor’s choice awards from PC Gamer magazine, Computer Gaming World magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, and has won accolades in Maxim magazine, Forbes, CNET, The New York Times, NotebookReview.com and many other national and regional publications.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, WidowPC and all WidowPC products can be found online at www.widowpc.com.
About the “Hostages” …
Humorous photographs of “actual Dell customers” fleeing the Dell campus as well as behind-the-scenes comments on actually taking the photographs at the Dell campus in Round Rock can be found in the WidowPC blog at www.widowpc.com/2006/11/dell_hostages_f.php .
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Important Editorial Note: the general theme of this is humorous and satirical; there were no actual hostages at Dell, or is this based on any actual event or real people related to Dell. This information was supplied by WidowPC.
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We appreciate humor and well-executed guerrilla marketing when we see it, but this is off the mark on both counts.
The facts are our gaming customers are incredibly tech-savvy consumers and most are quite pleased with their relationship with Dell. On the battery issue, Dell took the lead in ferreting out a vendor manufacturing problem that ultimately involved most major PC makers, and acted the quickest to replace batteries thought to pose a potential safety hazard to customers.
Comment by John Pope@Dell — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 @ 00:53:25 -0800 PST
Thanks for the compliments on the humor, John.
I certainly empathize with you battery problems. I was one of the first to email Michael when those pictures showed up on the Internet. Customer safety is in everyone’s best interest (especially when I’m on the same plane with said customer).
However, it’s important to note that the high-end boutiques like WidowPC didn’t suffer from that problem. We only use the highest quality parts and therefore use batteries that don’t have the failure rate that the world witnessed in the problematic Sony cells.
Comment by Joshua McClure@WidowPC — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 @ 23:26:22 -0800 PST