Iron Man Uses Dell Computers

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While checking out the new photos in the image gallery on the official Iron Man website, I noticed that Tony Stark uses Dell computers. Good product placement for Dell! Head on over to the site and check out all the new images.
 
Aye that's the Powervault (3U) and PowerEdge (5U) rack (in the background against the wall). I'm not a fan of Dell's service, but their machines are awesome. I have 4 PowerEdge servers in my office running the company.

Can't make out the blade servers though. Is that also Dell?
 
That looks more like bezels than anything else.
 
Ockie said:
That looks more like bezels than anything else.
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That was my first impression too, with the fancy light job they put behind the grille, but The PowerEdge servers (lower left side, the 5U servers behind the white guy) information lights are correctly placed behind the grill and matches the servers in my server closet (I have PE 2800 and 2900's)

The PowerVaults may be fake though, I can't tell. Too much fancy light work in there.
 
I'm suprised that he was not getting all his processing power from a bank of Apple notebooks like all the rest of the damn movies
 
the single unit ones are poweredge 1950s
they are nice, much more reliable than the 1850s, and especially the 1750s were.
we have a couple of racks of them in a render farm :)
 
Is that Vista Ultimate? Extreme edition? Or maybe the titanium edition? Wonder if it's 32 or 64 bit.
 
I was watching V for Vendetta this past weekend and the police used Dells as well. Fascists!
 
Of course they are probably just face plates. I highly doubt they spent hundreds of thousdands on fully working servers just to have them sit there as a prop.
 
michael.pa2 said:
In some people's opinion,Iron Man is a villain these days.He's certainly one of the most flawed characters in the Marvel universe.
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You have clear as the sky is blue good guys and bad guys, but then you got those characters that arent so clean cut on one side of the line or the other.

Kinda like how wolverine isnt exactly a poster boy role model of being a good guy or how venom isnt exactly a poster boy role model for bad guys. iron man is much the same, you could put the punisher in there as well.
 
Oh and as for the topic (since as the forums have been dosed with a bing of gayness for no longer having an edit button) Dells are everywhere in the entertainment world. This really isnt anything new:confused: Its like flip a coin. heads its a mac or tails its a dell.
 
pazhman said:
I wonder how much Dell paid them.
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Probably the same ballpark as when movie studios use Pepsi or Apple or whatever. Sponsorship has been around forever now. I wonder too how much money Dell sponsored.
 
in movies the mac is always computing all the intarnets at once...but you know the actors are just looking at a spinning pinwheel...

the bladeservers look like 1955's much better drac then the 1855's.
 
skytripa said:
can't wait to see this movie
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true that, when I first saw the trailer some months back i had thought that they had facked up the movie when i saw him bust out of the bunker in a poor man's iron suit :D.
 
Man if I was Iron Man I'd spend money on something better than a Dell. For Christ's sake, he makes his damn flying suit, can't he build his own dream machine?
 
Exavior said:
Of course they are probably just face plates. I highly doubt they spent hundreds of thousdands on fully working servers just to have them sit there as a prop.
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I dont know!.. I've watched transformers and those guys blow up BMWs and Mercedes and i'm not talking about the old models. Movie budgets are huge and I mean $100 millions +.
 
[RIP]Zeus;1032026892 said:
Iron man is not using Dell servers

He is using Dell Face plates :D
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Looks like he used all the chasis to make the suit.
 
Darkatom said:
true that, when I first saw the trailer some months back i had thought that they had facked up the movie when i saw him bust out of the bunker in a poor man's iron suit :D.
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That looked like the original suit from his first appearance,before he streamlined and refined it.
 
I mean really. How many scifi shows do you see these days that don't have Dell something or others. Laptops, lcd's, etc. Stargate for instance, dell every thing, screens, laptops, etc etc. I mean Im sitting infront of a dell 19" lcd and a 42" (not Dell branded) LCD TV that I bought off the Dell web site.
They have the most pervasive computer related product placement ever.
 
I would assume that they are simply faceplates. I know in Tabula Rasa they had Dell XPS pcs set up for placement everywhere.
 
L33t Masta said:
I would assume that they are simply faceplates. I know in Tabula Rasa they had Dell XPS pcs set up for placement everywhere.
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Yup they do.. And i kinda find it annoying.. I always end up shooting one when i see it..

I dispise Dell in the server market. They make shit servers compared to HP or IBM, and i have used all 3. but HP has the best ILO ever.. IBM Managment cards are good to. But dell's JUST BLOW ASS...
 
TopGun said:
Will Smith used a mac in I am Legend...
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And look where it got him.

If he had Dells, the zombies would have taken him more seriously at the end. I'm sure the zombies were thinking "oh come on, you made that serum with the help of a Mac? Do you honestly expect me to believe that?"

:D
 
Ockie said:
I am legend was polluted with Ford and Apple ads.... it stood out like a sore thumb
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I almost expected Microsoft to be advertised too in Ford/Microsoft's Sync systems ;)
 
emo1313 said:
I mean really. How many scifi shows do you see these days that don't have Dell something or others. Laptops, lcd's, etc. Stargate for instance, dell every thing, screens, laptops, etc etc. I mean Im sitting infront of a dell 19" lcd and a 42" (not Dell branded) LCD TV that I bought off the Dell web site.
They have the most pervasive computer related product placement ever.
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I see a LOT more Apple laptops being used in the movies. They are everywhere.
 
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