Dell — The New Latitudes — Live from SFMOMA

I’m at the Dell Event at SFMOMA, waiting for the fun to get started… We got some notebooks… The New Latitude Product Launch.

…and here we go. Live updates after the jump.

The event is over. Here are the entries from oldest to newest.

four new laptops… ‘dawn of the connected era’

TEN new laptops

buncha stats about needing instant connectivity everywhere, always

longer battery time, instant on – solutions for the ‘digital nomad’

digitalnomads.com, in fact

product line… business notebooks…

Dell Latitude

all day computing, security, durable

3,200 prototype test units: WANT

19 hr battery

centrino 2 vpro

waiting for the rahrah to pass – need meat

here comes

connect 5 different ways – e6400

5400 category – price performance

SSD drive, small netbook

eww, pink

blue looks cool

e6400 atg – rugged, outside visible screen

not just rugged, ruggedized. shock absorbers and such

80% charge in one hour for the 19 hr battery

backlit keyboard

easy off/on

wifi, bluetooth 2.1,UWB,GPS, WiMAX

security… notebook tracking

wipe and delete info remotely

dell stores password, etc in an off-line system – end user profiles…for security.

single frame magnesium alloy – metal hinges

big hinges, zinc – look strong

15, 17 inch models too

now talking about periperals

consistency across family

now greenspeak.

carbon neutral IT provider, 99% recyclable packaging, etcetc.

working in the lab… here we go…

instant access/always on – Dell Latitude On

instant access email, etc w/o CPU

no need to boot up

coming soon – later this year

wrapping up… 7 latitudes, 3 precisions

gonna go play with these things – photos and posts later, later!