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| Dell Announces New Line of Latitude and Dell Precision Laptops Dell announces a completely new line of Latitude and Dell Precision laptops, ranging from the lightest ultra-portable in the company's history to the most powerful mobile workstation. The new Latitude systems provide breakthrough battery life, brilliant new design and style - including a choice of five colors. Dell's re-engineered Latitude lineup answers a wide range of user profiles: - Ultra-Portable – Dell Latitude E4200 is a 12.1-inch laptop that starts at 2.2 pounds, making it the lightest commercial notebook in the company's history. The 13.3-inch Latitude E4300 has a starting weight of 3.3 pounds. Designed for road warriors and executives who demand maximum performance and light weight, the systems will be available in the coming weeks. - Mainstream – The Dell Latitude E6400 and E6500, available now, are 14.1- and 15.4-inch laptops respectively. - Essential – The Latitude E5400, a 14.1-inch notebook, and the E5500, a 15.4-inch notebook. - Semi-Rugged – The Latitude E6400 ATG is a 14.1-inch semi-rugged laptop that will be available next week. It is built and tested to meet Military 810F standards for dust, vibration and humidity. - Desk-Based – From new port replicators to full docking solutions that fit any usage scenario with smaller footprints and streamlined cabling, users can "hot undock." Dell will offer colors for the first time on Latitude laptops. In addition to Mica-Brushed Metal, the Latitude E4200, E4300, E6400 and E6500 will be available in Regatta Blue, Regal Red and Quartz Pink (E4200 only) in the coming weeks. The E5400 and E5500 are available in Matte Black. Incorporating a wide range of new technology, Dell's new Latitudes feature: - All-day computing on the E6400 with breakthrough battery life of up to 19 hours; - Full-frame magnesium alloy construction and all-metal hinges; - Sophisticated keyboard design; - Ease of use with Dell ControlPoint, centralizing control of user settings for power management, connectivity configurations and security management in a single application; - First business-class laptop with an intelligent backlit keyboard that automatically adjusts to ambient light levels; - Exclusive ControlVault solution – intelligent security sub-processors with embedded non-volatile storage that centralizes and helps protect user credentials and security keys in a single hardened security "vault" away from the systems main drive; - The E6500 is the only laptop with both a contact-less Smart Card reader and a fingerprint reader that comply with Federal Information Processing Standards; - Simplified IT with compatible peripherals, adapters, docking and robust manageability features across the entire portfolio. The company has also previewed Dell Latitude ON, a new technology that will enable near-instant access to e-mail, calendar, attachments, contacts and the Web without booting into the system's main operating system (OS). Expected in the coming months on the Latitude E4200 and E4300, Dell Latitude ON uses a dedicated low-voltage sub-processor and OS that can enable multi-day battery life. Dell has also unveiled a new line of ISV-certified Dell Precision mobile workstations targeted at performance-oriented customers in the engineering, media, entertainment and biosciences industries. Available now, the details include: - Dell Precision M4400 – This 15.4-inch mobile workstation features leading-edge graphics and supports up to 8 GB of RAM. - Dell Precision M2400 – Weighing 4.77 pounds, the company's lightest mobile workstation is a 14.1-inch system. The company has also introduced a 17-inch mobile workstation concept that revolutionizes mobile performance. Housed in an orange, anodized aluminum chassis, it supports up to 16 GB of RAM, a 1 GB graphics card, upcoming quad-core processors and up to a terabyte of storage on two drives. This doubles the amount of memory and processor cores, and triples the storage available on Lenovo and HP mobile workstations today. The new Latitude mainstream and ultra-portable laptops, as well as Dell Precision mobile workstations, are available with Energy Star 4.0-compliant configurations and meet EPEAT "Gold" rated configurations. The Latitude E4200 is Dell's first notebook offering a motherboard containing halogen-free laminates, as well as halogen-free chassis plastics and fan housings. The ultra-portable laptop also ships in packaging that is up to 99-percent recyclable by weight. All of the new products are also available with Dell's ProSupport Mobility Services, a suite of modular services that help companies protect assets and data. To protect confidential company information, Dell can also automate data encryption on all laptops and centrally manage company-defined security policies in a way that is transparent to the end-user. Dell's Desktop Manager service allows IT to track dispersed systems, distribute software, manage patches and enforce IT policies. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |