Comments on: Dell tries tablets with Latitude XT

The PC giant's foray into convertible tablet notebook realm is sure to stir up niche notebook market.

[pilaa]

You must be kidding me!

The price alone on this thing would scare anyone away. There is nothing new, exciting or desirable for a device that has proven to be an extremely over priced, clunky and an oddity in the business side of things. Where is the value?? Where is the software?? And, where is the market?? Oh, and how about drivers?? Where is the "Wow" factor??

Dell is grabbing at straws in order to try to be unique and different but I am afraid to say they are a day late and a dollar short on this one. How about changing the form factor a bit and adding some sort of innovative style... Hmmmm... now there's an idea...

[Dandy55]

Kidding indeed...

$2500 for what???
"Latitude XT has a 12.1-inch LED-backlit screen, a 1.06-gigahertz Intel Core 2 Solo processor, 1GB of memory, and a 40GB hard drive" - and the only new feature is that you don;t need a pen and can poke your fingers in the screen???

Just hompare it with other tablet manufacturers:

TOSHIBA Portege M400-S4034 Tablet PC:
Intel Core 2 Duo T7200(2.00GHz), 12.1" XGA screen, 1GB DDR2 667 RAM, 100GB 5400rpm HD
- $2100

ASUS R1E-B1 Tablet PC:
Intel Core 2 Duo T7700(2.40GHz), 13.3" Wide XGA screen, 2GB RAM, 160GB 5400rpm HD
- $1850 (I'm the happy owner of one of these)

Fujitsu LifeBook T4220(FPCM11067) Tablet PC:
Intel Core 2 Duo T7250(2.00GHz), 12.1" XGA screen, 1GB DDR2 667 RAM, 60GB 5400rpm HD
- $1600

HP Compaq tc4400(RM141UT#ABA) Tablet PC:
Intel Core 2 Duo T5600(1.83GHz), 12.1" XGA screen, 1GB DDR2 667 RAM, 80GB 5400rpm HD
- $1450

Any student will know better than by DELL

[Llib Setag]

Dell is doomed...

WOW! Del must be running scared...In the last few days, there's
been what 5, 6 7 stories about Dell at Best Buy, Dell, it's not
your fathers Dell, DellPhone?, Dell Tablet speculation? DellPDA?,
yadda, yadda, yadda...

Or did Dell just drop a big bag of cash at the CNET editor's front
door for Christmas...?
How much do you get paid per word from Dell CNET?

Dude, you go a Dull Dud Dell for Christmas....
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHH!

[terminalblue]

at least one thing is clear...

that dell doesnt see much confidence in Vista.

[catch23]

Why do you say that?

They offer it with Vista if you want, XP tablet if you don't.
I find it funny that when companies offer what has been asked of them (in this case, choice) fools read everything else they can into it...

[sanenazok]

Who wants an XT anymore

Geez with products like that Dell is doooomeeed.

I demand the power of the AT (286) architecture! Maybe I'll skip this generation and wait for IBM's PS/2.

[Norseman]

The tablet PC is one of Microsoft's "innovations"

Or at least that's what Bill Gates said recently. He's been pushing these things forever, but the market has spoken. And it said "Tablets? Who cares?"

[timber2005]

RTP

The Research Triangle Park in NC uses tablets quite a bit. All of the college book salesmen I know use them, and Graphics Design courses are taught on them. Look at what the iPhone did with touch, and imagine if someone can make a sleek, powerful computer in the same fashion, touch will take off.

People thought mice were worthless once too.

[slickuser]

It is a IBM Design!!!

IBM came up with similar designs several years ago. so whats new?

Can't believe that Dell is "innovating".

[babygene]

It's finally here

This is supposed to be for education? How can a teacher or student afford this?
Latitude XT - New!
Price $2,785.00

Haha good thing I waited for nothing. Thanks Dell.

check for yourself
http://premierconfigure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=&ci=K196&customer_id=RC960543&~tgt=cfg&l=en&s=k12&cs=RC960543