Tabs help you organize your feeds and gadgets, but you may want to have a really personal homepage that you'll never read at work or in an Internet cafe.
Google-Dell start page keeps the old look of Google's personalized homepage, doesn't have tabs and saves all the settings in your Google Account. To add gadgets, find them in this directory, copy the source URL and manually add it to the Dell page.
You can also use Google-Gateway start page or create a page using Google Apps for Your Domain.