Dell Studio XPS 13 and 16 - Coming Soon?

Thanks Jayson, so I am curious to know, what screen sizes are confirmed and finalized for production on any new laptop refresh Dell will be putting out? I wouldn't think it would need to be a secret, what is would be what it will be using internally.

I would like to know if any new laptop will feature more WLED options and/or higher screen resolutions?

Slot-load is a positive, back-lit keyboard affirmative, touch capacative buttons go for launch, and fingerprint reader.

When are we to expect an anouncment of new systems?

 

If you had typed that out a little better and included some remotely nice slide or even an HTML table I'm sure engadget would have made a story of this by now.

 

i have my own source... you cant find it on any website

 

And there would be a whole new thread just for him!

 

the notebooks are rolling out in november.. u never know if "official" news may come out late october.. sometimes it happens

 

I doubt any of you have any 'secret sources'

First, there is no way there will be anything higher than the 9600m in the Studio 16 if it evr comes out. The 9800m series are just too heat consuming.

Second, there wont be a consumer laptop with a WLED or full RGB gamut screen. They already have a laptop with that, the dell precision m6400. And if they do, it will be a 300$++ upgrade. And with some of you guys thinking $160 is overpriced, that screen wont be possible...

 

there is no secret source here.. there is no official launch date yet.. there is no official specifications yet.. all there is is a timeframe for the refresh of the XPS line. 1 week left to november.. we came a long way. lol

 

You missed my point. Engadget seems like it would take any thing that looks remotely good and toss it on their website with a link/quote.

 

i just can't wait for dell to roll out those two suckers. i have been waiting for two months already, love the backlit keyboard option, and i just want a centrio 2 processor and intel 5300 wireless card, and a better video cards. hopefully the new xps line will be as light as the current ones

 

Okay, I can say with centainty that the new systems will have Centrino 2, the Intel WiFiLink 5100/5300, eSATA/USB 2.0 Combo Port(s), WLED screens, back-lit keyboard, fingerprint reader, and slot-load drives. New exotic materials are also being used for the systems

 

Can you say with certainty a release date?

 

They WILL be released early to mid November, with more specs rolling out thereafter, that's all I got. Anouncement coming soon.

 

can you toss us an idea of the exotic materials? is it the wood finish or carbon or what? Thank god this week will go by fast with Halloween and all but god **** the week after will be a grueling wait.

 

hmmm the picture on the slides show some type of wood for the 16".. although thats just a prototype design picture.. we shall see.. probably they will go with choices.. carbon, wood.. im pretty sure no one can give u credible facts at the moment.

 

ASUS are looking at bamboo based notebooks, as its a fast growing sustainable wood.
Perhaps thats Dell's route as well?

 

There's no such thing as sustainable. Something has to give to make room for the bamboo. They'll displaced all the rice fields in asia and turn them into bamboo fields.

 

any news??

 

Yeah I am sure there is absolutely no other place to grow bamboo or the fact that it is very fast growing.

 

atbnet, you asked where we got those battery life comparisons?

anandtech . com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3435&p=13 (remove spaces)

Of course, this only applies to the macbooks, that macbooks run better with OS X than Vista (probably on purpose), but it makes you wonder... what if we could run OS X or something on a non-macbook, and what kinda of performance that would give us.

 

Just curious as the specs for studio XPS mentioned "a full wireless solution including integrated mobile broadband, WiMAX and Bluetooth/UWB support".

Anybody know if this one has Qualcomm's Gobi chipset ? I feel so as they announced the same back in April.


Any comments?

 

Any ideas on pricing?

 

should be in the same range as actual XPS's without discounts etc...

 

at the moment im at a dell channel event.. but for business line although they will be showing consumer models.. studio and xps included.. so might be the new models or not.. ill say something tomorrow.. =)

 

Now would be a great time to introduce something, to counter Apple's latest products. Hope we see something soon.

 

I agree as well. The new macbook looks spectacular. Aside from program compatibility issues (which are somewhat resolved, but can still be inconvinient to have to dual boot vista/xp and os x just to work around those) I'm definitely considering getting a macbook.

Right now, I'm waiting on the Canadian release of the Vaio SR200 series and/or the Z series, the macbook, and the studio xps 13. >_<

Hopefully, they blow me off my feet, in the good sense (not the overpriced sense). >_>

 

The macbook lasts the longest for it's size of battery. That's what really sells it for me. I just pray to god the XPS can remotely compare to that batterylife.

 

ok as we know apple is apple.. and u pay for that..
dell will be launching good machines better than the macs in terms of specs.. in termos of design.. i dunno how u would cope with a mini displayport.. so little usbs.. and limite trackpad etc.. u get where im getting to.. a mac is a mac for mac users..
dell is a DELL for pc users. hehehe
and im pretty sure those 9400 are going to have 9400M plus some other graphics.. pretty sure in my heart i mean.

 

Ok.. but you still have to use OS X. Since Apple has great control over the hardware, it is expected that it would provide better battery life. Vista is installed on thousands of different configurations.

 

ya.. the new macs are great.. but not for pc users.. for the price i would at the moment buy a sony z... or sometime soon a ......... =)

 

...which is my only gripe with the Macbook as is. T_T

I'm so anxious to see the Studio XPS 13... Though... I'll probably end up waiting for the first people who ordered to receive and review theirs before I finalize my own decision on which to buy. Unless... Studio XPS 13 starts at M1330's current price. (lol yea right, in my dreams... T_T)

 

I just installed the new graphic driver released for Dell Studios. Apparently, Dell listed these laptops that use this driver.

Computers : Studio Laptop - 1435, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1735, 1737;
Studio XPS Laptop - 1640

Judging by whatever that is written, a refresh Studio 17 will be released soon and also a new laptop named Studio XPS 1640. There is also Studio 1435. 14" Studio perhaps? So, this might not be a rumour afterall.

 

Good find. The Studio 14 was supposed to arrive with the others back in June but it got shelved. The Studio 1536 was the AMD version that we never saw. So who knows if they really exist.

 

hmm we might be seeing at par release with the new xps's "flush glass" displays.. since the xps's will have those. prob that explains those 1537?..

 

No news from yesterdays event?

 

oh no.. only business line.. nothing to interest here.. but they did say consumer line will be refreshed before the festive season.. so ya start saving for next month.

 

Those 1537's are the Montevina refresh of the Studio 15 (1536 is the AMD Studio).

I really hope we see a update soon as I'm getting quite tired of this slow piece of **** I'm currently using. If only I had enough money for the MacBook Pro I wouldn't have to wait as much.

 

does it mean that new studio xps 16 will have ati graphic card ?
maybe HD3850 ?

 

I think it probably will be a nvidia chipset/graphics the same as in the new MacBook Pro. The Powerpoint slides on the first page says "Hybrid SLI" which is what nvidia calls the combo.

 

yes for sure nvidia.. maybe ati as option.. but doubt it..
oh and we should be having a new inspiron in december too..

 

I think the reason they took so long to release this Studio XPS is that they wanted the nvidia chip. I can't see a company waiting this long to implement stuff that has been available since July (unless they had enough parts ordered to last them over 4 months).

 

The new Inspiron, anything to wait for? If it has the new Nvidia chipset...

 

not sure.. inspiron will be entry level, as usual.. dont expect alot on that side.. =) probably just a refresh in design and bump in specs.

 

As the time of the release aproaches and I am limiting down my shortlist for a buy, I will be greatly disapointed if the best GPU offered is 9600.

DELL took all the time needed to prepare these machines. Knows all the competition since it is the last company refreshing.

If they offer what others have offered months ago, I will think it twice before buying a DELL. Unless they had a really, REALLY good reason for the delay. We will see...

 

what machine you looking at buying? must understand that to fit a bigger gpu than the 9600 under a 15 or 16" is not very viable.. usually you will see bigger in a 18" ? or im i mistaken? has any other vendor done the contrary?

 

I dont know, but I've read somewhere that a 9650 is a better card and has same (or lower?) heat dissipation or something ... blah blah I probably should have read that thing better

 

well true if you go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_m_series.html there are three columns i would say they would stick the middle one, Performance and Multimedia, which yes includes the new 9650M.. but probably wont be a standard, i doubt they will put 9700M's or higher under the hood, i wouldnt want that personally. taking into account it compromizes on heat, battery etc. prob on the future gaming model that should subs. the M1730

 

The fact that in the new graphics driver the Studio XPS 1640 is mentioned, does seem to point towards an ATI graphics card being an option for this notebook? Seems weird otherwise.

As the 1340 is missing, perhaps the 13 inch model will include the new Nvidia chipset while the 1640 will not?

Anyway, I like that the 14 inch Studio notebook is popping up again, I still hope it will be released someday. Then my next notebook would be between the new Studio XPS 1340 and that 14 inch Studio for me. Especially if the form factor / design is tailored to the Montevina chipset (slimmer).

 

It would make some sense to use the Nvidia 9400 for the 1340 and then maybe ATI switchable graphics in the 1640. Who knows.

 

i was holding the prototype of xps studio 1640 in my hands today, and i have to say im dissapointed of new design... m1530 looks much better...

 

Prototype? How much do you know about it? When is it going to be available?