Dell officially announces Santa Rosa-based D630 and D830
By Donald Melanson 
posted May 9th 2007 5:21PM
posted May 9th 2007 5:21PM
Not one to be left out of today's Santa Rosa madness, Dell has officially announced a couple of laptops that, like most of the Santa Rosa laptops now rolling out, have already managed to make themselves known. In case you missed it, the Latitude D830 and D630 offer two variations on the same theme, with the former boasting a 14.1-inch display and the latter a 15.4-inch one, and each packing integrated 802.11n WiFi, as well as your choice of an Intel Turbo Memory cache card or a hyrbrid hard drive to help speed things up a bit. Dell's also showing a bit of love to AMD (who must be feeling a little left out today), officially announcing its 15.4-inch D531 Latitude, available with your choice of Turion 64 or Sempron processors, but lacking the SSD and hybrid storage options of the Intel-based Latitudes. From the looks of it, all three are available now, with the D630 and D830 starting at $1,189 and $1,249, respectively, and the D531 coming in at $839 for the base configuration.
So where are the XPS/9500/6500 models? Dell's usually the first out-of-the-blocks with the latest and greatest...
Does someone know where i could get those wallpapers?
they are not on the dell website so they're not available "now" [5/9 evening]
It is on the website: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&oc=MLB1935&s=biz
It's on Medium & Large Business and my Solution Provider Direct Site... Who are the main targets for the awesome Inspirons. Business doesn't care about the shoddy build XPS or bloatware Inshitrons so these should be the "latest and greatest"
I've been delaying the next corporate order for these babies, getting one in ASAP and if all is well then a truckload will be coming for refresh.
Home users should do themselves a favor and kick down a little more for a latitude on the small business site. Better hardware, better support/warranty service. (If not looking for gaming laptop anyways)
That should be "awesome Latitudes" by the way ;0
Bleh, no express card on the 630 and no dedicated graphics options (that's a real killer) - this is not what I would call a worthy successor to the 620.
There probably will be a dedicated graphic option added (like on the D620) later.
The spec sheet states that graphic can be X3100 or NVIDIA Quadro NVS135.
How about a real graphics card like the ATI x2600 HP is promising? And the configurator doesn't know about flash or hybrid drives yet. An option for a 64-bit OS install would be nice as well.