It’s been a couple of weeks since Dell first showed off the Inspiron Duo, and today we’ve gotten some more specifics on the device. The device is notable due to its unique notebook-to-tablet flipping mechanism.

Aside from its flip mechanics, the Duo has the distinction of being powered by a dual-core Intel Atom N550 processor, making it one of the first dual-core devices in its class. It also comes standard with 2GB of RAM and a Broadcom Crystal HD accelerator for graphics — if anyone has experience with this graphics chipset, please sound off in comments. It’s running Windows () 7 Home Premium, but given Dell’s penchant for customization, there might be options for other flavors of Windows 7 ().

The Dell Inspiron Duo will be available in the first week of December for $550 at its stock price. We’re actually rather intrigued by the device, so we’ll keep an eye on it and let you know how it performs when we get our hands on one.

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]