Dell Latitude Z series laptop leaked, sized up in pictures
By Ross Miller 
posted June 15th 2009 7:52PM
posted June 15th 2009 7:52PM
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posted June 15th 2009 7:52PM
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Its a Latitude with Attitude!
[+1] To spite the guy below you.
WOOWWWW! How revolutionary! Look at the design. Look at the craftsmanship!! The ingenuity!! WWWWOOOOOWWWWWW.
Whoop! one more ugly dull dell for the pile!
It looks like a really really really bad ripoff of a thinkpad.
Never mention this in the same sentence with 'Thinkpad' again, else the battery gods will smite you in your place. Well, next time you have your notebook in your lap, anyway.
I'm not going to be that fool who votes you up because you came up with an elementary rhyme.
Never gonna vote you up,
Never gonna vote you down
Never gonna run around and report you
LOL!
Nice one my friend, nice one.
Mods close the thread down. Dafrety just won.
I don't understand why the keyboard is so small on such an enormous laptop. You could easily fit a numpad into the wasted space.
A numeric keypad on the side would result in non-central typing, requiring the user to twist at the shoulder or waist.
I hate extended keyboards because of this fact...
An extended keyboard can be moved to the side, but this results in a slanted looking workspace.
You would appreciate the usefulness of a Num Pad if you are working with numbers on Excel, or other applications where you need to key in huge amount of numbers.
Numpad isnt necessary but they could have made the keys and the spacing between them bigger.
That's what 'fn lock' is for.
They gave this 15" laptop a netbook's keyboard.
That is one ugly laptop.
That's exactly what I thought! How can Dell make computers that are so ugly? This is almost Acer ugly...
Nice shirt, guy!
I've never thought my D630 was a good-looking laptop (utilitarian, I suppose), but compared to that...
And I really, really hope that's not a 15-inch model there, with such a tiny keyboard?
Nah, that's about right -- looks like pretty much the same space to the sides of the keyboard as my 15" MacBook Pro...
Maybe I'm just having an optical illusion because of the lighter-colored border.
Not to mention the wide LCD bezel...
Wow that keyboard looks really sleek.
Does anyone else think this laptop looks like it came out of the late 90's?
It looks like my friend's really old Inspiron.
Since when did they begin using the older Centrino stickers?
Makes one wonder how old this prototype is.
Too bad you're a iTard.
the keyboard lay out is really ugly
The inside of this laptop is best described as horrendous. Dell has put out some good industrial designs with the lateset Latitudes. I hope that this is only a prototype.
The keyboard looks nice I guess, but I'm never going to get one
It's a DELL
Yes, and it appears to have brought with it the old 4:3 ratio 1600 x 1200 screen it looks like... nice seeing you again after soo long, old bud.
The keyboard could have a number pad, at least. Other than that it isn't too bad though.
Vista Basic = FAIL
The design looks good but won't last.
i would get one if it werent for the stupid macbook like keyboard. those things are a joke to type on.
dell, function>style.
"i would get one if it werent for the stupid sony keyboard."
fixt for truthiness
Actually I love the keyboard on my sony.. its awesome!
I just wanted to fix the macbook part :p I to love the sony split-key keyboard :D
At least the keys look to be contoured, instead of uniformly flat.
No optical drive?
Anyone else see the little RFID tag marker to the right of the TrackPad?
Wireless USB?
Just a smart card thingy, I believe.
yes RFID smart card reader. All current latitudes have that feature.
I hope it has some more ports on that extended rear end. I don't wanna have another laptop that I need special VGA or DVI adapter plugs or that lacks an SD card port. The keyboard is intriguing, they could use that real state better and at least take those PgUp/PgDn keys from around the arrow keys. Also, where's the webcam?
Looks like an ultra-thin chassis so I'm thinking those funky 45 degree cuts in the back are an attached mini-dock, but who knows... Otherwise it's just a strangely wasteful bit of industrial design.
Um, look at the picture of the "rear" or the notebook. Do you notice the weird looking shape of the guy's skin where his thumb and index finger meet? It looks like someone went into paint and blacked something out right in that space.... odd? I think so. But I hope the rest is real! It looks sweet!
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