End of line for Latitude 6000 series?

So according to this road map there's going to be no Broadwell (i.e Exx50) models for the 6000 series Latitudes, does this mean that Dell are exiting the 'full power' business laptop market?

The new E5x50 models only offer ULV CPUs, and I don't consider them a true successor to the 6000 series as the 5000 series has traditionally featured cheaper build quality.

I can only hope that the gap is filled by lower end Precision models.

 

Interesting and I agree about hoping that the gap is filled with lower end Precisions. That being said, as long as the chassis are capable of enough cooling, the ULVs could be allowed to sustain their max turbo speed which would end up with similar performance compared to full voltage dual cores. Time will tell though.

I'd bet the move is motivated by the "good enough" performance of most CPUs theses days as far as the run of the mill office worker is concerned. Hopefully, we'll see a thinner 15" Latitude to fill the gap in the 7000 line. Heck, something à la M3800, a nice 15" Latitude road warrior.

 

Yeah, my old officeplace switched from 6000 series to 5000 series over 2 years ago. I argued at the time but the percieved value is just not there especially when trying to justify the extra budget to the execs. They see that 200$ per laptop savings and go mad over it. I guess it is a big deal when you order 500 laptops or so every year but they never figure in the time/repair/lost productivity cost of using crappier screens, more broken/dropped laptops or faulty parts due to cheapness, time spent troubleshooting/repairing laptops, etc etc. You can't put a dollar amount on that as easy as you can say "hey this thing costs less". Its a bean counter thing and i'd bet that company was not the only business making those kinds of changes.

 

Yeah, I just ordered a 5000 series 14" to replace my dying Sony laptop (this seems to be a trend with all of my Sonys ). With Intel's Broadwell delay (and no intent from Intel on launching "mainstream desktop CPUs" based Broadwell [i.e, the high end laptop chips - full power dual cores]), mobile product lines that relied on this traditional Intel stalwart have been threatened. Notice how all of the refreshed gaming laptops from CES are still running on Haswell.

 

I suppose their time has passed. I have just acquired an E6230 as my daily driver. I also have an E6430 still in pristine state, not being used yet. I had for a while the new E7440 with touch and found that I dont quite the feel of it. Light it is but somehow it feels so much less slicker than the older 6000 series. I am lucky enough to have spent a couple of days with the new Latitude 13 7350 and I feel that it feels better to work on than even the higher specced 7440. It got to do with the feel of the keyboard deck. And the Latitude 13 is not even a proper pc being a 2 in 1.

 

Before you despair keep in mind that there are no full power Broadwell parts yet, and given Skylake's timing a lot of OEMs will probably skip over Broadwell for certain segments. That roadmap only covers 1H15 and Skylake's due in 2H15 so it's yet to be seen if the 6-series is dead.

 

If there really isn't a replacement for the 6000 series or a spec bump...I guess I'm going Lenovo. the 5000 series have a cheap look about em......

 

I hope that what superparamagnetic said was true, that the refresh will come in Q3-4 2015 when Skylake launches as Broadwell only consists of ULV chips at the moment.

Personally I'm surprised that Dell haven't released a 'F' series Latitude yet, considering that HP and Lenovo pulled out complete redesigns of their business laptop lineup for Haswell (e.g. smaller dock connectors).

 

No, i cant believe this, i love so much magnesium and trimetal finishing.

 

For us (we go through about 2000 dell laptops a year) once you factor in the warranty differences (1 year on the 5k series, 3 year on the 6k and 7k series) the cost difference was non existent We tried the 5k series for a while, they are just not built as tough as the 6k and 7k series. We had much more problems including a much higher rate of DOA's on the 5k series.

We've given up and are now ordering the older 6k series and newer 7k series until the next gen 6k comes out.