Dell Latitude D430 revealed, offers little more

Dell's business ultraportable, the Latitude D420, is getting a slight bump and a new model number soon, but those hoping for something a bit more cutting edge will have to look to other laptop manufacturers to get Santa Rosa happy. As spotted on the Dell Taiwan site, the upcoming D430 will be out July 2nd, and sport new Core 2 Duo U7600 and U1400 processors. There's also a new option for the Intel 4965 802.11n wireless card, and the SSD option is playing a bit more of a featured role this time around, but otherwise Dell is playing things pretty safe and leaving well enough alone with most of the chassis and internals. We'll see if that pays off for them soon enough.

[Via laptoping.com]

[Erwos @ Jun 25th 2007 10:29AM]

No ExpressCard slot? C'mon, Dell, no one wants PCMCIA anymore...

[Jeff @ Jun 25th 2007 11:55AM]

I wonder if the D430's hard drive will be any faster. The D420 only has a 4200 RPM drive.

[Anthony @ Jun 25th 2007 10:25PM]

Boring, who cares about dell latitudes when there is the macbook already out.

[Macandron @ Jun 26th 2007 1:10AM]

Take your trolls elsewhere.

[kokara4a @ Jul 3rd 2007 8:14AM]

Dude, I just switched from a MacBook Pro to D420 and I'm very happy. As sleek as the MacBook Pro is, it is huge. Granted, you should know it when you buy it but as far as I'm concerned it is a desktop replacement, not a mobile computer. And It has horrible battery life - around 2 hours. I hear the new Santa Rosa ones have better battery life but I'm sure they don't come near the ~4 hours of the D420. And them MacBook Pro heats a lot. I repeat - heats alot. The fans are often in overdrive to keep it cool and I just gut one replaced because it died. Out of warranty. Ouch! In short - beautifull but not well engineered machine. The D420 - boring but extremely useful. The biggest drawback is the mediocre display. It hink it's unforgivable to have such a losy display in 2007. But it's a display that you can take with you almost anywhere because the machine is small, light and runs very cool. Just my 2 cents