Dell Dock
The Dell Dock is a new piece of software that is being installed on new Dell computer systems which provides a customisable navigational ‘shortcut bar’ to help tidy up your desktop and speed up your day-to-day tasks by making it easier to get to where you need to go on your Dell computer.
I had a bit of a play with the Dell Dock when I was at the Dell Studio Laptop launch a couple of weeks ago at a Silverstone Formula 1 testing day. I must say that it seemed very similar to the other ‘dock’ software that you can download and install yourself, not that it’s a bad thing if something works well.
Dell are obviously trying to enhance their customers’ experience of using their newly launched Dell Studio 15 and 17 ranges of laptops with this new feature which will likely be implemented onto other Dell models soon as well. Click the image below to see a more detailed view of the Dell Dock in action.
I think that it works well and is a worthy addition to your computer if you’re like me and your desktop has a tendency to get rather cluttered. Like anything I think if you’ve got a large monitor with plenty of desktop real-estate to make best use of this, it will only make this more useful to you as you can fit even more things onto the dock.
What do you think to desktop dock software? Do you use one? Would you remove it if you bought a new Dell computer with it installed?
Yeah… your right when you say it looks like every other piece of “dock” software on the market.
I think we’re going to be seeing more and more applications like this as developers and distribution company’s try to give the regular “average joe” users at home more bells and whistles.
Personally I would probably remove it in favor of something lighter weight, as I like to run as minimal as a system as possible. (I’m currently running debian linux with the fluxbox window manager…. whole running system around 112MB of used memory.)
All and all though… looks like a handy little piece of software. Nice article!!
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how can I get the dell doc for my computer? No, it’s not a dell. But it’s not some other name brand, I built it. Show me some love, I am in the market for a new laptop…
@Kip - I’ve not tested this out yet myself (but have been meaning to as my desktop pc is one I built too), but I’ve heard that this is a good piece of software - http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/