Any news of the Dell D420?

I've been looking a for an ultraportable for awhile and came across this one. I hear the latitude notebooks are much sturdier than the inspiron line and the chassis is made up of some metal alloy. How do they compare with the thinkpad line? Also, what are the specs on this specific model--especially the weight. Thanks all!

 

Nobody knows anything abou this model?

 

They are supposed to coming this summer. Thats what I know.

 

Well the Latitude D420 is due in June (for US) and July (Europe)
Here are some specs:

Innovative Design: Designed with usability in mind
*Starting at 3.0lbs / 1.36kg for system with 4 cell battery, and 3.17lbs / 1.44kg for system with 6 cell
battery. Weights vary depending on configurations and manufacturing variability.
Intel® Core™ Solo and Duo processors 533MHz Front Side Bus & 2M Smart L2 Cache
Intel® Core™ Solo processor U1300 (1.06GHz)
Intel® Core™ Duo processor U2500 (1.20GHz)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional SP2, Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2
945GMS (533MHz front side bus) with Intel onboard graphics
Min: 512MB DDR2 shared1 533 MHz
Max: 1.5GB DDR2 shared1 533 MHz
Wide-aspect 12.1” WXGA (1280 x 800 resolution) UltraSharp™
Supports up to a maximum resolution of WUXGA (1920 x 1200)
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (up to 224MB shared)
30, 60GB2 (80GB2 post RTS)
87-Key US; key travel 2.5mm; key spacing 18.5mm
Touch Pad - PS/2 compatible, Track Stick - PS/2 compatible
High Definition Audio codec, mono speaker, 1.0W, integrated omni-directional microphone
H: 25.4mm/1.0” x W: 295mm/11.6” x D: 209.8mm/8.25”
Starting at 3.0Lbs/1.36Kg11
65 Watt or 90 Watt AC adapter with cord wrapping
Primary 4-cell/28 WHr “Smart” Li-Ion battery featuring ExpressCharge™
Primary 6-cell/42 WHr “Smart” Li-Ion battery featuring ExpressCharge™
Primary 9-cell/68 WHr Li-Ion battery
56K3 v.92 Internal Modem; 10/100/1000 Gigabit4 Ethernet
Cellular Broadband6:
Dell Wireless 5500 Mobile Broadband 3G HSDPA (Cingular US)
Dell Wireless 5700 Mobile Broadband CDMA EVDO (Verizon US)
Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945A/G (802.11a/g), Dell Wireless 1490 (802.11a/g), Dell Wireless 1390 (802.11g)
Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth internal wireless card
One Type I or Type II
Support 34mm ExpressCard via a USB interface through PCMCIA adapter
SD card slot, IEEE1394, docking connector, 3 USB (one powered), VGA, headphone/speaker out, infrared port, RJ-11, RJ-45, AC power
Serial port, parallel port, VGA port, DVI port, 4 USB 2.0 ports, RJ-45 port, RJ-11 port, MIC in, HP out
9.5mm slim 24XCDRW/DVD or 8X DVD+/-RW7
D/Port , D/Dock, D/View Notebook Stand, D/Monitor Stand
24X CD-ROM, 8X DVD-ROM5, 24X CDRW/DVD, 8X DVD+/-RW7 Floppy Disk Drive, 80GB2 Hard Drive
128MB, 256MB and 512MB USB Memory Keys8 (optional)
Cable Lock Slots, Media Module and Hard Drive locks
Integrated Smart Card Reader, Trusted Platform Module 1.2 and optional UPEK® finger print reader. Dell Embassy® Trust Suite by Wave Systems
security software.
802.11 WiFi Protected Access (WPA), 802.11i (WPA2), Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and 802.1x with EAP modes

 

actual availibility in Europe is unclear though!