Dell Global Mobility Event : Live Blogging

Posted by Bhavishya Kanjhan on Aug 12, 2008 in Default | 1 comment

Dell is hosting an event titled ‘Freedom from Business as Usual’ and is was expected to announce their netbooks and possibly even a phone. That didn’t happen though. Dell is really pushing the concept of a ‘Digital Nomad‘ (their term, not mine). They claim to have achieved a 19 hour battery life for notebooks and this will be included in their newest (4th generation) Latitudes some of which will be available starting today on dell.com

Among other things the machines are expected to include Backlit keyboards, all day batteries, SSDs, Centrino2 processors, integrated webcam and microphone and even smart card security. Track lost notebook as well as remotely wipe data.

New Latitudes are E6500, E6400, E5500, E5400 with E4300 and E4200 as portables and E6400 ATG as the rugged machine.

E 6400 – Thinnest lightest mainstream notebook. 19 hours battery life. magnesium alloy chassis. Exciting keyboard technology. 9 cell gives 10 hours of battery life. Add a battery slice and get about 19 hours of battery life. (E6500 is 15″ version) E4300/4200 – 13.3″ and 12.1″ screen. less than a KG – no spindle – SSD sub system. Choice of colours in Business Computing.

E6400 ATG – for harsher environments, outside viewable screen, shock mounted hard drive, no compromise to performance or battery life. Dell’s new technology “Latitude On” – Working on ‘Instant access’ and ‘Always on’. Coming later this year. Most expectedly going to be a splashtop-type linux OS!

More coverage at : Direct2Dell , Engadget Hands on

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