See what you can do when you make an effort, Dell? You come up with a laptop we might want to buy. The new Studio has been announced, and aside from a range of mouth watering colors (on the lid, at least) Dell has sprinkled on a few tasty extras.

As ever with Dell, you have almost too much choice as to what goes inside, but the base models have 15″ and 17″ screens, Core 2 Duo processors with integrated graphics and the usual array of card readers, inbuilt webcams and ports. Prices start at a very reasonable $800 and $1000 depending on size

But it’s what’s on the inside that counts, and Dell is shipping the Studio line with a customized version of Vista, which adds and OS X style dock (pictured below). If you use a Mac, you’ll know the Dock. If not, it’s an application and document launcher. The Studio is looking like a nice alternative to the MacBook (assuming you don’t want OS X, of course).

The product page link below is the the German site — the US one doesn’t appear to be up yet.

Product page [Dell Germany via the whole internet]

Motorola’s new flagship phone, the ROKR E8, has finally arrived in the wild courtesy of T-Mobile.

The surprising thing is how poor the specs look in the post iPhone world. This is a flagship product? A 2MP camera, a pathetic 2GB of built in RAM (plus a bundled 1GB microSD card), haptic feedback and a music player.

But most telling is the list of what it doesn’t have. No touch screen (although the ’soft’ keys are touch sensitive and context-aware), no 3G (EDGE only!) and no accelerometers. Fine, you say, it’s cheaper than the iPhone, right? Wrong. T-Mobile is pushing the E8 for the exact same $200 that AT&T is charging for the 8GB iPhone. Not to get all pro-Apple here, but unless you really hate AT&T, why wolf you buy this instead of the iPhone?

Product page [T-Mobile via PC Mag]