Any information on next generation Haswell based Latitudes?

Posted this in the other thread aswell. Here are all release dates:

E6540: June 2013
E6440: September 2013
E5440/E5540: October 2013
E7240/E7440: July 2013
E3440/E3540: August 2013

Source (with specs): Dell Latitude roadmap 2013: ultrabookok, notebookok | Tech2.hu

 

Looks like the 7000 series will have mobile broadband, 1080p lcd, e port dock AND wireless dock. Awesome!!! Only somewhat strange thing is the fallback to only supporting 4Gb dimms for 8gb total. Hopefully that is an oversight on the slides.

 

No E6240 is kind of disappointing. Wonder if there won't be a X240 from Lenovo either due to the higher watts of the full voltage Haswells. It would be great if they at least offer the 28 watt ulv in the E7240, but I'm betting they won't.

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I wonder if the E7440 will replace the E6430u as the only "ultrabook"-type 14". I hope they keep the profile of the E6430u and 900p...1080 is a bit much on a 14"...

Oh well, let's wait till July.

 

Looking at the spec sheets, the 12.5" has either 768p or 1080p and the 14" has either 768p or 900p. Hopefully they won't have chiclet keyboards and buttonless trackpads. I'm desperate to buy a decent 14" with perfect ergonomics before they all go touch-screen as standard.

 

+1 in the preference for 1600x900 choice on a 14"

Plus don't forget the need for Haswell replacement for E6340s
Sure many of us do need the Expresscard and full CPU power without the obligation to get additional GPUs than what Intel's HD line nowadays offer.

On the 2013 benefits, the promised up-to-70% of battery life increase will be VERY welcomed by many business, all sides academic and the plethora of potential mobile customers: Anyone needing to visit clients, associates, fairs, sales, branches, or works, free lance, at home, and a long etc of prospective customers may consider jumping into the new laptop lines, if a proper and varied features mix is provided and well promoted.
And Yes, touchscreen options and Windows 8 may help and contribute to this jump if 8.1 is adequately released,.. but I doubt Microsoft managers will seize this wave, instead of continuing their subvert attempts to close the walls around their "ecosystem"..
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/// I guess that if Dell rapidly clears its ownership dilemma (in favor to the actual controllers), they will decidedly change fast and bring out the obvious models and options that customers have been clamoring to have in this very forum for the last 3 years and that Lenovo has been fast to offer, with a few caveats.

Most of these comments do apply quite broadly to about "next generation Haswell based" Dells really.

 

If they're actual DIMMs as opposed to soldered in, whether they'll take 8gb or not will be an Intel decision and not a Dell one. The memory controller is on the CPU now. I'd be surprised if they don't work with 8gb, even if it's not officially supported.

If it's soldered, I'd expect 8gb to be the limit; except for Apple, have not seen many machines with soldered memory and a 16gb option.

I'd rather have 1920x1080 if offered; they're limited by the panels they can buy.

My bet, sadly is that the full-size 14" is going away and the E6440 will be like the E6430s (no quad core, smaller chassis.)

Looking for closely at the specs, it looks like they're sort of splitting the difference -- no quad core (37W only, unless they're going to have some later lower-wattage quad-core parts), but some discrete graphics option, and a size slightly smaller than the current E6430(/E6420) and slightly larger than the E6430s.

 

After three INTEL CPU generations of having only powerful Duo-cores running on 35w (or lame Quads) available. When fabrication has gone from 45 to 22nm. and INTEL has STILL not released a potent QUAD at 35w TDP!.. Remember that 45nm Core2Duo T9400 had 6M cache running at 2.53 GHz, and it was launched launched at Q3'08...soon will be 5 years old... On a fairer comparison; we had 32nm two cores (4 threads) Core i7-620M with 4M L2 at 2.66 GHz or 3.33 GHz on Turbo single core, been released at Q1 of 2010...three years ago already.
And now at 2nd cycle architecture on 22nm lithography including other advanced technologies... so far INTEL marketing strategists still claim that they cannot release a powerful QUAD on 35w?


///INTEL dictates and hence this is what a dwindling laptop/desktops manufacturing industry gets to offer to us their potential customers. The same way last year INTEL CPU generation had their performance artificially capped by way of sub par heat transmission, because INTEL arrogantly judged that this performance was not needed to compete, at the same time losing the opportunity to lower the laptops energy consumption which would have resulted in Ivy bridge laptops closer to all-day battery capacity and thus better positioned to have competed with the mobile devices at 2012/ Q1'2013...

 

The 3632QM is a nice potent 35 watt quad core.

 

Yes i7-3632QM Ivy Bridge is quite the first exception and the sole Quad CPU with this performance level for 35watts, with a base speed of 2.2 GHz and via turboboost up to 2.9 GHz (for 4 active cores), 3.1 GHz (for 2 active cores) and 3.2 GHz (for 1 active core). Sandy Bridge and previous generations didn't have such Quads and Intel didn't allowed its previous mobile line to be compatible with Ivy CPUs.
I do hope some Haswell CPU follow and improve this evolution of efficient and powerful Quads.

I7-3632QM features are quite good for gaming and other demanding activities. However for Professional Audio, turboboost introduces minor latency spikes that may produce audio glitches and thus random problems that render this tech so far unsuitable for this usage. This would not be an issue if the CPU base frequency would reach -say 2.8 to 3.2-... but at 35w, this has yet to happen.

Ooor Intel fixes the Turboboost technology and so DPC latency checker clears its use for Professional Audio.

///Out of tech feats discussion, to have a rather small mobile Latitude (E6430s qualifies) or Precision laptop, that at the same time are powerful and connect-able enough, would definitely bring Audio people's attention to DELL.