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Dell intros Napster service for PC buyers
Backstage at the Austin City Limits Festival, Dell Inc. announced a deal with Napster to provide a year of streaming music service and 60 free MP3s from the music company’s library on some new PCs.
Dell said the deal with begin in late October with computers purchased at Best Buy and will be rolled out on Dell.com in November. Inspiron and Studio laptops will be included, but the company didn’t specify if it will be included on cheaper laptops like the Dell Mini line.
Buyers will be able to stream music for one year from Napster for a year and will be able to download 60 songs from the service. An icon for Napster will be pre-loaded on these PCs.
Also backstage at ACL, Dell gave a sneak peak at the next generation of its super-slim Adamo laptop and touted its Design Studio line. It also talked up Austin’s Bright Light Social Hour, the winner of this year’s Sound and the Jury contest, which the company sponsored.
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By Buy Local
October 2, 2009 1:24 PM | Link to this
That is pretty cool. What do the musicians get? I know dell is awful for sending jobs to india but some of their jobs are local so you should buy Dell when given the choice. Otherwise you are a hypocrite. G.E. parent of MSMNBC pioneered job outsourcing or TREASON as i like to call it.