Friday, September 16, 2011

New Latitude Line Offers Game-Changing Features

New Latitude Line Offers Game-Changing Features

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Among the innovations in Dell's latest family of Latitude laptops is at least one "game-changing" feature, according to a technology analyst. Latitude ON is a new technology -- expected to be available by the end of the year -- that provides super-fast access to e-mail and Web browsing. It will be available on Dell's new ultramobile models, the E4200 and E4300.

"They're looking to find a way to marry the benefits of laptop performance with the instant-on access and radically extended battery life people expect from smartphones," said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT , in a telephone interview.

Latitude ON leverages a separate subprocessor and subsystem that allows the user to turn on the laptop without having to boot the entire system, King said. "You'll push a button and the system will be on in a second or two. You can't run the full range of applications and multimedia, but you will have Outlook and basic browser functionality. It's a way for employees to simply turn on the machine and work."

In addition, if the system is run exclusively in ON mode, the ultramobile's battery life will be extended substantially, King added.

Extensive Battery Life

Battery life is another area where Dell's E line is impressive, King said. In combination with an additional battery pack like Dell RD859 Battery, Dell PR002 Battery, Dell UD260 Battery, Dell PD942 Battery, Dell Latitude 131L Battery, Dell 8F871 Battery, Dell 2G218 Battery, Dell Winbook N4 Battery, Dell F0590A01 Battery, Dell 7T670 Battery, the mainstream E6400, with a 14.1-inch screen, can run on battery power for 19 hours, Dell says. "That's impressive by any metric," King said.

The new machines show the increased importance of mobility in the enterprise , King said. "Mobility as an issue is moving throughout enterprise, it's not just road-warrior types," he said. "Mobility is increasingly important to businesses of every kind," from employees working at home to contractors who drop into satellite offices to salespeople who are constantly on the road.

A key to advancing mobility is Dell's new security system, ControlVault, in which a separate subprocessor and subsystem manage security, King noted. "It not only increases security on individual machines, but when a Dell laptop goes online, it calls home. When there's an alert that the laptop was lost or stolen, Dell headquarters can wipe the laptop," King said. "You may not get the laptop back, but you won't have to worry about your data ."

A Substantial Shift

Innovations like these stand in marked contrast to Apple's ultramobile offering, the MacBook Air. "That was a great example of a mobile solution that leaned more to style than technical substance," King said. "It's a beautiful product, but the lack of ability to change batteries and the system's relatively short battery life to begin with makes it a pretty but essentially useless product."

"The new Latitude E family shows Dell is capable of taking a utilitarian viewpoint and marrying that to much more attractive style points. With the Latitude ON feature in particular, if it works as Dell was talking about, we may be seeing the beginning of a very substantial shift in the mobile computing game," King said.

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