Latitude E-Series Anticipation Thread

Does anyone know why the WUXGA screens are not being offered yet for the E6500 or the new Precision laptops? This is a dealbreaker for me and one of the main reasons I was looking forward to the E6500.

 

Hi there!

Anyone knows, if the LatitudeOn Function will be available for the E6400 Series too? All articles in the internet speak about it in the E4300 and E4200 but nothing about the E6400. On the Dell-Website in Germany they write "All new Dell Latutide-Notebook will have the following exclusive Innovations:
- Dell ControlPoint
- Dell Latitude ON
- Dell ImageDirect"

So anyone knows more?

Greetings S.

 

It isn´t mentioned in the E6400 or larger description so i would say no.
BUT

so you could upgrade your bigger Latitiude later, if my interpretaion of "models issued with the reader" is right, could you help me with that?

 

according to the dell rep i spoke to, all systems will have it. it is currently on all systems with hardware, but the reason specific systems are not mentioning it is that the software component has not gone live yet, and will not until the first two weeks of september. where did you get the november date? my sources have all been saying september.

as for the 1920x1200, it should also be released at that time.

and as for the DDR3/DDR2 ram issue, anyone complaining that DDR3 is more expensive right now is failing to realize that you cannot upgrade your computer to DDR3 at some later date. prices of ram will fall much more quickly than you will be buying a new computer... what they ought to be doing is allowing people who WANT to pay more to do so. the motherboards they are shipping with fully support DDR3...

 

@veritas: So Dell will activate it with a software update and all system will have it!? Wow that would be nice.

Think i will oder a E6400 on Monday then.

 

The chipset supports DDR3 but the RAM socket is different (DDR3 is 204pin). Therefore Dell would need to provide a different board.

I've yet to see results that show that DDR3 provides improvement to the real-life performance of notebooks. When Anandtech compared DDR2 and DDR3 in desktops a year ago there wasn't much difference between the two. Possibly the biggest winner will be the performance of the X4500 since integrated graphics relies heavily on memory bandwidth. The lower voltage of DDR3 might provide some power saving, but the increased frequency of DDR3 may offset that power saving.

John

 

I am fully aware of this. the point is that they had the option to use DDR3 rather than DDR2 now. And it is not like they are just not going to move towards DDR3 in the near future even if the specs aren't much improved now. And if you break even on power usage because of the increased clock speed, that is still an improvement. the point remains that buying a machine which takes what is already outdated ram is a real disappointment.

 

I disagree on the DDR2 being outdated. I think it was a smart move to stick with DDR2 as DDR3 has no current benefits (yes, real life benefits are zero) at a much higher cost. Since they released their laptops relatively late, they would want to sell more and with DDR3, the cost would have to be more.

 

DDR2 is outdated. there is no ability for it to be upgraded beyond the point at which you buy it. DDR3, whether you feel like it has important enough benefits now, is the future.

 

I believe that the point trying to be made is, if you buy a machine with DDR3-1066 ram, it will always take DDR3-1066 ram. Even if they come out with new DDR3-1600 ram, the machine you have bought will only accept 1066. Thus DD2-800 isn't "bad", because if you buy a machine right now, it will always take that, and prices right now are cheap. In the future, Dell may release new machines that take advantage of DDR3 and faster speeds, but until that occurs, your current machine is still "new". When this does happen, though, guess what? You can't use the new ram cause you don't have the required slot or chipset support, so it doesn't matter, even if you are DDR3. This is technology...things change. You might as well complain that all LCDs produced today are "out of date" because the manufacturing of OLED screens is possible.