http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/ Engadget Comments for Dell stays vivacious with Studio 14z, gets going at $649 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 28th 2009 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 28th 2009 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/
No internal optical drive, though. A bit shocking that they couldn't find a place to squeeze an optical drive in a 14" notebook.]]>May 28th 2009 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 28th 2009 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 28th 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/
I disagree. I can't remember the last time I needed an optical drive away from home. Already have plenty of other external drives to handle this. Keep the price low with the external if you need it. Sounds like a good deal to me.]]>May 28th 2009 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/> "I can't remember the last time I needed an optical drive away from home."

I burn lots of CDs for dance studios... but I'd be willing to use a slim external optical drive with this laptop.

14" LED LCD (!!!)
eSATA (!)
HDMI
Optional 8-cell battery for 7 hours
5 pounds

YES PLEASE!!!

The only thing missing for me is a Firewire port (I'm a digital video guy) but that can be added with the Express Card slot.

Now that I think about it... I only burn CDs a couple times a month... there's no need in having an optical drive in the laptop 24/7
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I love how Dell's "tech specs" gives no more information about the screens.]]>May 28th 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/
So you get 1280x720 or 1600x900. Is it really that hard to put this on the product page?]]>May 28th 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 28th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/I apologize, I misread your comment..]]>May 28th 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 28th 2009 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/2) No optical drive? maybe fail depend on your purpose but for buz user it's definite fail (PS. i dont see an option to add optical drive)
3) Nvidia 9400m IS an integrated graphic unlike other user mentioned, it draws from your RAM.
4) Relatively, this one is a much better value http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9027714&type=product&id=1218010176167
Gives you Penryn Chip 4 GB ram (albeit slower) DVD drive, dedicated 9300m 512mb video, LED, back lit and bluetooth already with 2
years warranty]]>May 28th 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 28th 2009 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 30th 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 28th 2009 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 28th 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/
If I really wanted something without an optical drive, I would have bought a 12" thinkpad or MB Air rather than this PoS.]]>May 28th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 28th 2009 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/dell-stays-vivacious-with-studio-14z-gets-going-at-649/May 29th 2009 5:49AM