Latitude E-Series Anticipation Thread

atbnet · Aug 10, 2008

Chevy95ZR2 said: ↑

Can we say Precision? All together now: Precision

M4400 ($1569)
M4400 32bit ($1834)

M2400 ($1449)
M2400 ($1794)

I also found these desktops, for what it is worth:
T7400
T5400
T3400

EDIT: Alright, I finished analyzing my data, and the above laptops is what I found. Dell probably hates me right now for this, but here is what I did. Each dell system configuration has a 7 character code that identifies it. The codes are garbage, as far as I can tell, but they do follow this pattern on the business side:

Latitudes start with "blcw???"
XPSes start with "bycw???"
Latitudes start with "bwdw???"

The trick is knowing the last three characters. Usually one character determines the model, another the configuration, and the third is random, but consistent. For fear that Dell would not conform to the appeared "standard", I wrote a brute force application. The application tried all letters [a-z] and numbers [0-9] in all three places for each form above. Processing the data was simple. If the code works, the header you get back has config.aspx [*1] in it, otherwise it goes to an error page. Using a little threading, I was able to knock out this job in ~4 hours and have a page worth of valid links to check. The Latitudes popped up all known links, so nothing new for us to see. The Precisions were iffy, as I'm not familiar with their numbering scheme and somehow desktops got thrown in with them. Any Precision that was M?400, I considered new. Everything else was M?300. Finally, the XPSes were disappointing--there were no new links. Let me stress that this is on the Small Business side of Dell, so there may be pages on the Home side.

*1 - Sometimes you get taken to a survey page. My program did NOT take into account for this. My logic is that out of all the valid request, the chances of hitting a survey twice in a row for the same laptop (which would mask the laptop) would most likely not happen. Plus I'm lazy and didn't want to figure out the logic, as sometimes the survey appears on invalid pages.
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****, that's pretty awesome. Let us know if you take a crack at the Home side, I really am hoping for new XPS notebooks.

curiouspeter · Aug 11, 2008

According to the spec, the E6500 weighs only 5.1lb. So, it is almost as light as a T61? That would be so cool.

There are still no Vista 64 options?

seanbow · Aug 11, 2008

Chevy95ZR2 said: ↑

Can we say Precision? All together now: Precision

M4400 ($1569)
M4400 32bit ($1834)

M2400 ($1449)
M2400 ($1794)

I also found these desktops, for what it is worth:
T7400
T5400
T3400

EDIT: Alright, I finished analyzing my data, and the above laptops is what I found. Dell probably hates me right now for this, but here is what I did. Each dell system configuration has a 7 character code that identifies it. The codes are garbage, as far as I can tell, but they do follow this pattern on the business side:

Latitudes start with "blcw???"
XPSes start with "bycw???"
Latitudes start with "bwdw???"

The trick is knowing the last three characters. Usually one character determines the model, another the configuration, and the third is random, but consistent. For fear that Dell would not conform to the appeared "standard", I wrote a brute force application. The application tried all letters [a-z] and numbers [0-9] in all three places for each form above. Processing the data was simple. If the code works, the header you get back has config.aspx [*1] in it, otherwise it goes to an error page. Using a little threading, I was able to knock out this job in ~4 hours and have a page worth of valid links to check. The Latitudes popped up all known links, so nothing new for us to see. The Precisions were iffy, as I'm not familiar with their numbering scheme and somehow desktops got thrown in with them. Any Precision that was M?400, I considered new. Everything else was M?300. Finally, the XPSes were disappointing--there were no new links. Let me stress that this is on the Small Business side of Dell, so there may be pages on the Home side.

*1 - Sometimes you get taken to a survey page. My program did NOT take into account for this. My logic is that out of all the valid request, the chances of hitting a survey twice in a row for the same laptop (which would mask the laptop) would most likely not happen. Plus I'm lazy and didn't want to figure out the logic, as sometimes the survey appears on invalid pages.
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Thank you! You're my hero. +rep. Anyone know if the M4400/2400 have the same release date as the rest? (T400 etc).

bbilo · Aug 11, 2008

Hi everyone,

very good job for the Precision laptops! Any ideas about the performance of the Nvidia Qaudro FX770M card?

Bbilo

seanbow · Aug 11, 2008

It looks like the 770m is equivalent to the mid-range GeForce 9-series. Hopefully it's about a 9600m gt.
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18022

bbilo · Aug 11, 2008

Thanks! Let's really hope so..

Chevy95ZR2 · Aug 11, 2008

In case no one noticed, the Precision's ship date is 9/2/08, which is odd, cause the latitudes are 9/15/08.

John Ratsey · Aug 11, 2008

curiouspeter said: ↑

According to the spec, the E6500 weighs only 5.1lb. So, it is almost as light as a T61? That would be so cool.(
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Starting weight. so assume the smallest battery option and no optical drive.

Compare it with the starting weight of the current model. The E6400 is 1.95kg and the D630 is 1.98kg, so no big difference there.

John

veritas72 · Aug 11, 2008

curiouspeter said: ↑

According to the spec, the E6500 weighs only 5.1lb. So, it is almost as light as a T61? That would be so cool.

There are still no Vista 64 options?
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Almost all machines ship with both x86 and x64 versions of the vista os. I would be surprised if this were not the case with these machines.

veritas72 · Aug 11, 2008

fattire said: ↑

The units I have seen all had ddr3 1066. Its either a typo or a cruel last second change
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that would make sense -- hopefully the product configuration pages are just templates, and have not been updated with the true hardware yet.

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