upcoming NAPA Latitudes

I was told:
"There was no talk of an NDA, so I think I can pass this on: The new Latitude series will have widescreens, will be wider but less deep and less high. They look pretty - outside silver, inside black.
Drives will be SATA, except for the Latitude D420, which will have 1.8" PATA. The D410 and X1 will be rolled into one machine, the Latitude D420, and have a widescreen 12.1" LCD. They'll let the D610 and D620 overlap for about half a year, to get customers used to widescreen. They talked about a 7 hour battery life for the D620, but I believe this is with an extra battery. "

any more info??????

 

Thanks nice info, could have figured it out by looking at the specs of napa, they also will have faster memory (up to 4gb) and the mini-pci card will go in favour of a mini card pci-express. More info from www.trustedreviews.com

 

sounds very interesting. any idea on a timescale?

 

I heard a while ago that Jan 2006 is the schedule.

I will know more since the Webcast on the new Latitudes is tomorrow at 11am

 

I think Yonah is slated to come out in March-April sometime, although I'm not 100% sure.

 

what are the latest latitude information?

thx

 

I missed most of the webcast but Feburary 2006 is when the D620 & D820 are going to be arriving. D420 will be later.

 

Is there any information on the D620 and D820 with respect to the types of ports it will have? Specifically, will there be a parallel port, IR port and firewire (IEEE 1394) port?

Thanks,
Harvey

 

Any info re whether the 6000 will be updated around the same time?

 

the 6000 will not be updated until later in Q1 or beginning of Q2 2006. They'll be updating the i9300 to something else in January and wait for the 6000 for a bit.


No parallel port on any of the Latitude D420, Latitude D620 or Latitude D820 laptops. 4 USB, 1 PCMCIA, ambient light sensor, Bluetooth, WWAN, WLAN, biometric finger reader, firewire -- hmm i honestly forget. the look is exactly the same as the d410 is now except widescreen (think shorter and a bit wider) -- very nice look. Battery is located at the front, extended battery will offer up to 7 hours of life.

 

The NAPA Intel dual core processors will be announced and introduced at CES on January 5th, along with new dual core notebooks from major manufacturers. The dual core processors will use the "Pentium" nomenclature while the non-dual core new Intel mobile processors will be stripped of the "Pentium" title. That's right, an Intel processor that's not Pentium and not Celeron and not Xeon. weird.

 

do you know the weight of the D820 and D620??

 

thanks for that virgil, at least they are finally getting rid of that parallel port! I presumed that all new dell lappys would come with express card rather than pcmcia.

 

And their relative thickness? The D810 & D610 got thicker compared to their predecessors.

 

Thanks for the information. So Dell is going to stick with PCMCIA before moving to express cards. What about GPUs? Can we expect the x1600 mobility in the D620? With regards to shipping date, will it be late or early Febuary for the D620?

Does anybody know if low voltage yonahs will be on the D620 and lower?

Thanks.

 

I would refrain from making generalizations about the company's direction. You'd do better to remember there is a distinct strategy difference between home and small biz.

 

So far the newer laptops all have express card from what I seen, even the new budget notebook B1300 has express card slot.

 

Does anyone want to give me the rundown on what these 'dual-core' Yonah processors are all about?

 

Im incredibly bias when it comes to Processors, but AMD is handsdown rocking Intels boat for the last year and a half. Just focus on the X2's now since Dell is starting to carry AMD processors soon, just wait for X2 it's pretty much been proven to beat the current Intel dual cores.

 

they're moving all of the inspiron notebooks to express card (it's cheaper) they are not moving business machines to the express card because business IT divisions like slow changes and do not want to support express cards yet -- plus there's nothing out there for express cards.

 

WOW. This is a very timely thread. I was about to pull the trigger on an insanely priced i9300, thinking that the price would outweigh the worth of waiting for the yonah refreshes. But this thread has reasured me that I can wait until next year... maybe I'll spend a bit more, but at least I'll have a more futureproof laptop.

THANK YOU!

EDIT: I noticed that my tone may sound sarcastic, but it isn't. I honestly want a Yonah (napa?) based laptop for college next year.

 

Well, Napa goes official 1/5 with plenty of new notebook announcements at the same time.

 

What are the chances of having the next NVidia card in the 9300 refresh that is REALLY MXM compliant?

Or will the next laptops be only new motherboards and CPUs (with the rest the same, including outer casing and video card)?

 

When you're talking about the battery are you just referring to the D420 or the D620/D820? It would be really nice to have 7 hours of battery life on the D620 without a 2nd battery. I think it can be done quiet easily though weight would be the main problem.

EDIT: Will DVI replace VGA and are we going to be keeping the serial port on the new latitudes?

 

Have to agree, but about to change.

Doesn't look like that's going to happen now.

You need to read the newest Yonah test at Anandtech posted 12-19, seems Yonah is the X2's equal and that's desktop vs notebook processor. Plus lower power 65nm Yonah vs 90nm X2.

Competition, its wonderful.

Hermit

 

Just what is express card? Is it a serial protocol like SATA?

My current Inspiron has the PCMCIA card right under the HDD and basically uses the IDE cable. Will future Inspiron's use SATA and do away with PATA?

Hermit

 

ExpressCard is the replacement for the current PC Card. It is much faster, up to 250Mbps.

 

Should have Googled in the first place. sigh!!!

14. How is ExpressCard technology different from PC Card?

ExpressCard technology draws upon many of the features of existing PC Card technology. It balances size and utility, reliability and durability, and features hot plug-n-play and auto-configuration.
There are also significant differences between the PC Card standard and ExpressCard standard.

Size. ExpressCard modules are roughly half the size of PC Card, as well as being lighter.
Speed. ExpressCard modules use serial data interfaces rather than the PCI parallel bus interface of PC Card, improving bus speed in data transfer while reducing the number of signals needed in the interface.
Cost. Because of its system and mechanical design, ExpressCard designs are anticipated to have a lower implementation cost.
Less power. ExpressCard modules are expected to require less power than has traditionally been required.
Ease of use. ExpressCard modules offer a much easier method for installing new capabilities in a desktop computer because it eliminates the need to open the CPU chassis to add functionality. In addition, it is hot-swappable between mobile and desktop systems, another plus for end-users.

Hermit

 

I'd be very surprised if the new 9300 wasn't a total redesign. Unlikely to have any interchangeable parts with the existing box. If you close the cover, they'll probably be the same size.

I suspect we'll see a SATA HD and optical drive, not for performance but rather to simplify the design. Yonah will be a catalyst to rip through the entire box. Out with the old, in with the new.

Hermit

 

Sorry, but is MXM that thing that would make new mobile graphics card all compatible each other?