New Latitude and Precision's

might be that way in your company because of the usage patterns, however there are some (quite a lot) of us who dont have a permanent desk, or work in the field, or work out of hotel rooms, etc etc etc.

i travel internationally a lot, work out of hotel rooms, in the field...if i had the luxury of having a dock i wouldnt bother with a dock. might as well have a desktop and an external HDD or cloud server

its not so much the physical dimensions as the lack of vertical pixels thats a pain

 

I agree with afhstingray. Personally, I don't understand why people buy laptops if they will be using it docked ^_^'

Moreover, they should call professional notebooks instead of business notebooks. Many people buying vostros, latitudes or precisions are not in the (classic) business field at all. They are researchers, technicians, grad students, engineers, independents etc. Some traveling a lot.

 

My laptop is docked over 95% of the time, but a desktop would never work for me. I have docking stations both at work and at home and take my laptop with me everyday since it's my only PC (self-employed). Plus, for the few times I travel, or just for occasional use around the house, the laptop is needed.

Except for the cost difference, I don't understand why people buy desktops when they can buy a laptop and a docking station (and dual monitors!) for the best of all worlds.

I prefer 16:10, but won't let the 16:9 keep me from a new E6510, thanks to the docking factor.

 

well the cost difference is quite high!! But then again you use the latitude, which means you dont really need a lot of computing power. an everyday laptop isnt that expensive, but more powerful ones like the precisions are quite expensive and an equivalent desktop would be a fraction of the price.

its difficult to say who is the majority, the dockers or the non-dockers. but i think its safe to say the non-dockers is probably a rather sizable group, which is annoyed about the loss of vertical pixels, especially on machines that are supposed to be geared towards productivity/work rather than movies/entertainment

 

Question:

It seems that the graphic card of the new latitudes will be the same as the new thinkpads T-series: nvidia nvs 3100. In the lenovo corner, they are talking about lenovo bringing switchable graphic cards sometime later... Is this going to happen with latitudes? Could switchable graphics come later to the new latitudes? By the way, why not now?

Thanks in advance

PS: It is such a mess in the lenovo corner (the lenovo forum here) that I couldn't yet figure out if the new thinkpads have, don't have, will have, should have or whatever switchable graphics... Anyway, I am sticking with E6410 (16:10 \o/ ), not very happy with lenovo for past personal experience.

 

I'm assuming it will have switchable graphics if it has the HM/QM55/57 chipset (as opposed to the PM55). I'm thinking Intel and nVidia are probably working out glitches in their switchable graphics, especially on the driver side.

 

I'm with Bogey9906 on the reason for the laptop - I am docked about 80% of the time and using an external monitor. But when I go on the road, I need the same exact stuff I do when docked. Trying to keep things straight between two computers is more challenging and expensive than one dockable solution.

 

That's good new about the E6410's display. I now have to decide whether it is worthwhile upgrading soon from my E6400. This will depend on whether, and at what cost, I could get a major boost in CPU performance. Otherwise I wait until my E6400 is nearer the end of its warranty and a good spec E6410 is also likely to be more affordable.

John

 

I see the FCC stuff for the 4310 was released.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/dell-lafite-enters-the-fcc-emerges-as-the-latitude-e4310/

 

I read that Nvidia will soon release a new driver that will implement the hybrid function. It will work on systems with the new integrated Intel chipsets and Nvidia 2***, 3*** and 4*** generation videocards and will switch automatcally between the integrated intel videocard and the Nvidia discrete one, depending on the needs of the application/s.