Digital Home Thoughts: Dell Gets Colourful With Inspiron 545 and 545s Desktop PCs

There are only two interesting things about the Dell Inspiron 537 (picture above) and 537s (pictured below): they come in eight different colours, and by default they lack an optical drive - though that last point is confusing because text on Dell's site says the optical drive is optional ("Store more with the optional optical drive and up to 8GB memory"), and the photos seem to back that up, yet when I try to configure one there's already a 16x DVD drive included in the configuration and it can't be removed. So...yeah. I'm not sure what Dell is up to here. I'm all for colour, because I do think it's a differentiator in the marketplace, but I'd have preferred to see Dell do a Shuttle-like formfactor. That would have been slick! Prices for both the 537 and 537s start at $299 USD. The model numbers also vary from country to country: in Canada they're the 545 and 545s.