Dell Latitude XT2 multi-touch tablet with 11-hour battery now official (starts at $2,399)
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Feb 10th 2009 9:04AM
posted Feb 10th 2009 9:04AM
Update: Official Dell Japan press release now out. We've got specs:
- up to 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ULV SU9400 processor with Montevina chipset
- Intel integrated GMA 4500MHD graphics
- Windows Vista Ultimate on down
- 12.1-inch LED backlit capacitive touch-screen with EM Digitizer pen
- up to 5GB of DDR3 1066MHz (1x1GB, 1x4GB DIMM)
- up to 120GB 5400RPM SATA disk or 128GB SSD
- 802.11a/g/n WiFi and gigabit Ethernet
- SATA ODD
- 3.78-pounds (1.72-kg) with 6-cell battery
- eSATA, 2x USB 2.0, firewire, and ExpressCard 54 slot
[Via AVING]
Looks nice! Kudos to Dell!
not with that price.
my touchsmart tx2 has better specs than that and it only cost me $900 at best buy.
...what was dell thinking?
Also that Intel Integrated Graphics crap spoils the otherwise beautiful package. By otherwise I mean Nvidia or ATi GPUs
The TX2 is a consumer product, which has an AMD processor and integrated DVD drive. In other words, its heavier, thicker, runs hotter, and has less battery life. It also has arguably 'cheaper' build quality than the XT.
Improving on all of those things can be worth it to some... though for others there's also the original XT on the Dell outlet for $700 or so.
want.
specs?
Price > Want
5gb of ram???? whaaaa???
The video is just a still image for me. Is that what it's supposed to be?
Whoops. Guess it messed up the first time. Works now.
I'd imagine the 11-hour battery life would have to be with the extra battery slice, which will add probably 0.4" and about 1lb to the tablet, but still that's about double that of the current XT.
And I'm sure that 11 hour quoted battery life is using Dell's "All-Day Battery" mode, which lowers the refresh rate to 40Hz.
If only this came in at its proposed release date!
Depending on the specs, I might or might not have made a mistake in getting a Macbook instead of waiting for the XT2.
We already know the specs. SU9300 or SU9400 processor (max of 1.4GHz). 1-5GB DDR3 RAM. Intel 4500MHD chipset. 1.8" SATA 80/120 GB HD, or 1.8" SATA 64GB SSD. External DVD/CD again, or in the docking station. B/G or A/G/N wireless, optional Bluetooth, 4 or 6 cell battery, standard 45W power adapter. Optional battery slice.
Also, ExpressCard 34, eSATA, 3 USB (plus one of those is powered for the external DVD drive), SDHC slot, VGA connector, optional WWAN, mono speaker, 28WHr on the 4 cell, 58WHr on the 6 cell, 48WHr on the battery slice, and 11.68x8.9x1.09 at the fattest parts, 2.2lbs without any battery, the 4 cell is 0.44lbs, 6cell 0.84lbs, and the slice is 1.34lbs and 0.38 inches thick.
Service manual has been available for a long time: http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latxt2/en/SM/specs.htm
Also, if you use the e-value code 65044-BLPCX11 you can order one but they don't ship for another 10 days estimated.
Though most importantly is the starting price, which is currently $2399, around $1700 more expensive than the original XT on the Dell Outlet.
Thanks for the update!
The specifications are good and I would seriously consider it if I hadn't purchased my laptop already. Now I can't wait for the next couple of years when this baby dies and I can finally get a tablet PC.
You just bought a Mac. That things not going to die for another 5-6 years. :)
not true... sadly a third of macs suffer terrible death the second year. Ask Ashimoto here who lost is macbook last month, ask my sister who got hardware failure 1 month after she buyed her Imac... Ask me, I own 6 macs, only 2 still working. Mac have a history of hardware failure. I admit though some model are more prone than others. If you got an 8000 series Nvidia card inside your macbook, good luck!
On the other side, my toshiba laptop just got a small blue line in the screen after 3 years of use... but I heavily suspect the kids to be the culprits here... those small blue lines appear when the screen got too much pression...
"Ask Ashimoto here who lost is macbook last month, ask my sister who got hardware failure 1 month after she buyed her Imac... Ask me, I own 6 macs, only 2 still working. Mac have a history of hardware failure. I admit though some model are more prone than others. If you got an 8000 series Nvidia card inside your macbook, good luck!"
Hmm...
I currently own 6 macs myself, most of them are pretty old, *all* of them still work
1 Pwermac 5260 (1995)
2 Blue and White G3's (1998)
1 Lombard Powerbook (1999)
1 Gen 1 Intel iMac (2006)
1 Aluminum Macbook (2009)
I also have a working Apple //e
On top of that, all New Macs come with a year's worth of free Applecare. If your sister's Mac Died, she could have it replaced or repaired at no charge unless SHE broke it or something.
In the past, I have had a multitude of macs. Performas, Powermacs Quadras, Mac IIsi, Mac II, stuff like that. All of them worked last time I saw them... Tho my father cannibalized my IIsi
Doesn't look like Macs have a history of hardware failure to me.
IM GOING TO BUY IT AS SOON AS IT COMES OUT
How about Dell releases other laptops they announce (coughcoughMini10coughcough) before they announce new laptops.
a spec sheet would be appreciated, not generally a fan of the dell world, but if this thing has software to disable the multi-touch, is built with wacom tech. and is priced at something reasonable for your average college student, then i might just get this(yes Im majoring in graphic design)
anyone know real world performance of LV C2D's?
Its not Wacom, its an N-Trig digitizer, which gives the option of pen only, touch only, dual touch/pen input, or auto (the best mode, you double tap the screen with your finger to activate touch, which is disabled as soon as you bring the pen to it).
And I could give you performance numbers on the LV Core 2 Duos, but that would be useless for the XT2 considering that uses the ULV Core 2 Duos.
this isn't for me it seems, but thanks for the info.
Agreed. I find myself not impressed with the multi-touch thingy at all. Is it natural that you only need two fingers to screw everything you see on a computer?
Let me ask you something. Have any of you ever meet a person who bites his fingernails and his fingers stay in his mouth more than anywhere else? How will you act if such a person asks to touch your tablet? I've had enough trouble of cleaning my calculator.
The big deal isn't multitouch, its the capacitive touch. It doesn't matter as much if you use it in laptop mode all the time and have access to the trackstick or the touchpad, though it can be useful (I find myself only scrolling on webpages using Grab and drag, much more convenient that way, but its a big deal if you're using it as a tablet. Sometimes, its quicker to use use your finger, tap on a bookmark and then browse a page that way than pull out the pen all the time, and if you're going to do that, capacitive touch makes an enormous difference over resistive.
As for the Wacom/N-Trig thing, N-Trig's drivers have been fixed. The only issue (which admittedly is a huge one for some) is that you don't get pressure sensitivity in Photoshop (though you do in other applications). That doesn't affect me at all though.
yeah, my reaction to this (currently owning a Lenovo X200T), is "No Wacom? Sigh...."
Anybody who thinks that multi-touch is really a reason to pay a premium for this computer is an idiot. What has multi-touch proven to be worth so far? Rotating pictures in the basic crap application that gets bundled with Windows? Fingerpainting in Windows 7? Whatever. And if you're thinking that you're buying for future-proofing, that's what they said about the original XT - which will be long outdated by the time anything worth using multi-touch for comes out.
There are no real applications for multi-touch right now. There are none on the horizon. Ergo, multi-touch is a gimmick.
It's a shame the N-Trig drivers don't support pressure sensitivity in Photoshop, etc. It's the only thing holding me back from purchasing this beauty.
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http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.59b7b9c7/0
wickedpheonix: I agree with you that multitouch is mostly a gimmick but what about being able to quickly and naturally use keystroke combinations on the on screen keyboard such as ctl-c and ctl-v or even more complex ones like ctl-shift-v in photoshop
@Benjamin: You don't need multitouch to perform those sorts of key combinations in the TIP. You can do that with the stylus as the CTRL and SHIFT keys are sticky.
my xt has the 1.33ghz and gets a 4.4 in the user experience ratng in vista ultimate, and a 4.1 in win 7 beta 7000..
its pretty snappy
Looks like a $2,752 price point.
i will never buy something that is 1280x800. what a crappy resolution. at least get 1440x900, or better (best) yet, 1400x1050 SXGA+!
1280x800 on a 12" screen is pretty decent. It's not great but it works pretty well.
what are you talking about? 1280x800 is the standard resolution for 12.1" laptops. 1440x900 already makes me squint a little on a 14.1" laptop...
what are you two talking about? 1680x1050 is quite nice on my 15", and 1920x1200 could be even better. it'll be nice when os's are resolution-independent.
1440x900 on 14.1 makes you squint? what are you blind? jesus. i am using 1400x1050 on a 12 inch and it is incredible and pleasing to read on. people like you are phasing out high resolution panels. technology is getting worse and worse thanks to you.
Looks quite nice.. I've been looking for something like this.
Hopefully it's less than $1300.
Sorry to disappoint you that its going to be more than times two of that price
not in few months...
800 vertical resolution is unusable. The text appear so big it's nauseating.
Not on a 12.1" screen!
i'd say it's far from "unusable," considering that most 15.4" laptops have the same resolution and people still buy them all the time.
You mean I'll have to upgrade my 802.11b network? LAME!!!
I love everything about that tablet, except that it`s price will be astronomical and the resolution of the display is pathetic... It`s 2009 and my SE Xperia X1 has 800 pixels height.. on a 3-inch display!!!
wow... why is everyone complaining about the screen resolution? 1280x800 IS NORMAL FOR NOT ONLY 12.1" LAPTOPS BUT ALSO 15.4" LAPTOPS! I don't think I've seen a 12.1" laptop with higher than 1280x800 anywhere, anytime, EVER.
You're Experia doesn't use the 800 pixels in the same way as a laptop though. Windows Mobile takes your WVGA screen and displays the UI on it as if it were a WQVGA screen. If the UI was presented in real VGA you wouldn't be able to use your phone without holding it right up to your face. As a result, the benefit you get with a high res phone display is clearer font and image rendering, not more screen real estate.
Do any of you guys know why it has 1x1GB + 1x4GB DDR3 RAM? and not two 2.5GB DDR3 RAM?
Do any of you guys know where I can get a 2.5GB stick of RAM?
The 1x1GB is nonremovable and I assume soldered to the motherboard, so there is only one accessible slot which can use up to 4GB of RAM.
The question should be, why 5GB of RAM? At the end of the day, if it is not 64bit then it can only address 3.2GB and you would only need more if you were doing heavy graphics or messing with large datasets, both of which seam rather pointless on a 1.4GHz ULV CPU. I know the obvious answer is, because you can, but why not take it down to 1x2GB of soldered, ditch the user addable RAM and add some 3G/HSDPA goodness, using the space freed up?
I'd also need 2.5 sticky rams.
I have the 1st gen XT which is a great little machine, handles all my IT Admin and tablet needs and plays a decent movie. About the only thing that really impresses me on this new model is the battery life... the unit looks identical to mine (CPU is .10 bigger than mine) & I get about 8 hours on max conservation mode with my slice battery, so I am wondering how they managed to improve the battery performance... more energy efficient hardware, or better battery design? perhaps a combo of both... I guarantee that they are squeezing 11 hours out of a too dim, severely ruduced CPU performance mode.
Aside from the battery I don't know if this new release is worth the hype...
DDR3 is more efficient.
As I mentioned above, its pretty safe to say that the 11 hour figure is using the "All-Day Battery" mode, which cuts the refresh rate of the LCD to 40Hz.
Actually it's the LED screen mostly.
"Its not Wacom, its an N-Trig digitizer, which gives the option of pen only, touch only, dual touch/pen input"
well, same as my Wacom based Tablet PC
except you can use your Wacom with Photoshop..
and N-trig sucks. At least it did with the original XT tablet. We got one as a demo unit for one of our users and the damn thing would just up and quit. you'd have to restart the machine 3 or 4 times and get "hardware not found" and sometimes it would start working again. I hope Dell fixed the issues for the XT2 that they refused to fix for the XT. We sent the dell back and got a Fujitsu tablet instead, it's working great.
I better pick one up before they implement the executive salary caps.
if this has a $1500 price tag and a CF card slot that didn't stick out from the machine, I would buy one.
Considering it has no CF slot, but SDHC, and the price is starting at $2399, I guess you're not buying one.
I guess you are right.
I'm only buying a laptop that can handle Windows 7 and Intel i7/i7 Extreme Edition with excellent graphics and RAM and etc. (which may take a long time).
Can one get it with no OS preinstalled?
No.
Thats obviously a comment meant to showcase your dislike of Windows. You know very well Dell doesnt sell PCs without an OS installed.
Go buy a mac tab...
Oh wait. Doesnt matter, im sure you can get one with no OS ins...
Oh wait.
Tell me. Why do you want to buy one with no OS installed? Do you know how to format a drive? I assume you have every version of Ubuntu released (I do as well, but i only get them because they serve as coasters). You do know installing another OS is just a matter of booting up into that disc and installing it.
I want to buy without an OS because with Dell, an OS is either some version of Windows, or a 6 month old Ubuntu OS with LinDVD and Firefox spellcheck set to German. They do sell with no OS to small businesses, pretty sure..
I refuse to pay for an OS that's not worth crap, but don't want to waste my time getting it refunded. It is my policy, then, to only buy machines that come with an OS I actually want to use. My experience with Dell has led me to believe that my next laptop will either be a 76 system or an Apple notebook. When my mom got her Inspiron 1525n, it was ready to use within minutes of opening the box. Short of that, no OS at all would waste a lot less of my time than selling me stuff with a EULA I'm going to immediately refuse. (Because of the OS, not because of the EULA.)
I love XP... and I swear I will love win7!
Way too expensive! Price should be cut in half.
Price will drop fast... dont worry. Its a Dell after all...
@[Everyone who is saying the resolution is enough]
Clearly you have never used or seen the Toshiba M200 tablet, with a resolution of 1440 x 1050. I'm going to miss it...
will the hcl leaptops give a tough competition to xt2 ?
will the hcl leaptops give a tough competition to the XT2 ?
This thing owns HP's
Kinger, stupid comment. This is also $1,000 more than the HP tablet, and still has Intel GMA (read: pathetic) graphics. Paying this much money for a laptop they can't even take the time to throw an actual graphic solution in is ridiculous. At least the HP tablet has an ATi graphics solution, and will leave a ton of cash in your pocket. That capacitive touch screen is freaking nice though, resistive never impressed me.
Ok I take it back.
The HP tx2500 tablets you're referring to are heavy, run hot as hell, and feel cheaply made. The Dell XT/XT2 is a million times better than them. If you want to compare something on the same level, you'd have to look at the HP 2710p/2730p which is a much more fair comparison, both in quality and price.
I want to go to there.
It's a DELL so you know it is shit. Now, for some reason, they think they can charge 2x what this turd should cost.
Man, I really wnat this tablet.....for under $1600
Dell is really kicking it up a notch....
That actually looks really nice. I will definitely consider it for my next laptop. Strange that Apple let Dell beat them here as they are pretty much defining themselves as *the* multitouch company.
This needs to be featured on Engadget's recession antidote giveaway so I can win it.
Japanese made Fujitsu t2010 plus user upgraded fan is the bees knees for note taking. I found mine new for 900. Be warned that the fan is HORRENDOUSLY loud in most note taking environments. Newer models fix that but then you're looking at 800 dollars or more :/ Still cheaper than a dell though. Plus you've got your wacom and onenote.
WANT.
Stupid pricing Dell. It should be in price-line with the Fujitsu models. $3000 (for a normally configured one with warranty) is ridiculous.
WOW my TX2000z was cheaper and better specs than this thing.
it looks nice but with those specs and PRICE no thank you haha, what was dell thinking...
I want one
Has anyone considered the new Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet. It's much cheaper here in UK and way better spec.
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo SL9600 (2.13GHz, 6MB L2, 1066MHz)
Genuine Windows Vista Ultimate with Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005 Downgrade rights
12.1" WideView MultiTouch + MultiView LED backlit WXGA panel
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM)8
500 GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm4
Integrated Bluetooth PAN
Intel WiFi Link 5300 (AGN) with My WiFi Technology10
Ericsson F3507g Other - Wireless WAN card65
ThinkPad X200 Tablet 8 Cell Li-Ion Battery60
One thing I love about this tablet is that it has a Modem. I know it's might be like a joke to some people but as a network administrator (Data centre level) working with Cisco equipment this is quite useful.
I have a XT2 for testing now, running with 64bit Win7 RC. Anyone that can give som tips on software around that'll take advantage of the multi touch features for a demo ?