Dell Announces 10 New Laptops, 19-Hour Battery Life, Linux “Latitude On” OS – Hands-on plus photos!
The Latitude E4200 is a 12” ultraportable, which at its lightest weighs in at 2.2 pounds– the smallest Dell corporate laptop to date. Along with its 13” sibling (the E4300), the 4200 supports options like a built-in camera, contactless smart card, LED backlit display, SSD drive, and backlit keyboard. Getting our hands on a working pre-production model confirmed that yes, it is pretty light! But we also couldn’t help but notice that the laptop’s plastic construction also felt a little flimsy – it definitely didn’t feel as solid or rugged as the larger Latitudes sporting anodized aluminum chassis. Still, we were impressed by its weight and compact size.





On the high end was Dell’s Precision M6400 model, which was a concept workstation built to compete with HP and Lenovo’s high-end offerings. The 17” laptop supports up to 16GB of DDR 3 RAM (!!!), terabytes of storage on two hard drives in RAID, Intel’s quad-core mobile processors, and Nvidia’s 1GB Quadro 3700M GPUs. The LED backlit display on this beast also supposedly covers 100 percent of the Adobe color gamut, which makes it well-suited for image editing.




No word on the pricing for these models, but they should be popping up on Dell’s website in the next few weeks.