New M4500 Discussion Thread

Yes also curious if a display with high color accuracy is available too? Regardless if it is the RGB-Led or not... Very good sRGB gamut would be very nice...

Cheers, Walter

 

The new HP’s are all plastic as will, I have an HP dv8000 at least it has a metal frame…

 

The reference above was to the new HP Elitebooks, and they are nothing like HP's consumer models. They have magnesium alloy frames, metal hinges, magnesium/aluminum display enclosures etc. They are extremely well built and attractive notebooks IMO -- not to knock the proper topic of this thread though: I think the M4500 also looks like a really nice 15" workstation.

 

Well i think the new hp designs aren't bad looking just in terms of looks though, in terms of how well built they are well i doubt that very much. Anyway my question is will the M4500 have the Latitude On? Or a similar mutli-OS?

 

Yes, it'll come with "Precision ON" technology, supposedly an improved version of the Latitude thing.

 

Correct the M4500 will come with both Precision ON reader and Precision ON flash. The reader is exactly that, allows you to read your Outlook calander, contacts, notes, and last 100 emails.
The flash module does not access your HDD. It connects to your wifi or broadband card and connects to the Internet. From there you can browse the web, check corporate email via webmail, or use the embeded Citrix or VMWare clients to access backend systems.

 

Sounds pretty nifty to me. I just wonder how this system might manage to access my Outlook stuff, considering that I have a nonstandard Outlook installation, with Outlook accessing several .PST files that are, of course, on my protected data partition and not in the inane standard location chosen by default. If it would actually run the Microsoft Office Outlook client that is installed in the Windows system, that should work fine. If, on the other hand, it has its own mini-client, then I'm not sure it will be able to find my pst files. Well, I guess it will only read Outlook.pst anyway, which would be fine, if that's all it can do.

 

During setup you can choose which pst file to do an export of. The issue you might experience is that the Precision ON reader does not support encrypted drives or partitions.

 

Not sure if anybody noticed, but on Direct2Dell, the product manager for the Precisions confirmed that the M4500 WILL NOT have USB 3.0.

 

So when will these be available? Has anyone heard?