Dell Latitude XT2 Tablet PC Announced, $2,399 Starting Price
GottaBeMobile shares the news from Dell: the Latitude XT2 Tablet PC is officially official. The successor to Dell’s XT1 still offers the N-Trig dual-digitizer solution with both capacitive and touch. It still has a hefty price-tag as well, starting at $2,399 for the base model. Some highlights:
- 1.2 ghz SU9300 / 1.4 ghz SU9400 Montevina Core 2 Duo ULV
- 12.1″ LED and Daylight Viewable LED, 1280 x 800 resolution
- Faster DDR3 RAM support
- 1GB of RAM on-board, up to 4GB more can be added.
- Weight of 3.62 lbs with 4-cell battery; 3.78 lbs with 6-cell battery
- Dell claims up to 11 hours, 28 minutes of battery life with six cell battery and optional 6-cell battery slice battery.
The new Latitude XT2 is available for order starting today on Dell’s site. This is geared more towards the corporate types and at that price in the current economy is tough sell, I think. Any takers?
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This pricing is unbelievable and shows that Dell still is out of touch with the market. It doesn’t help their case either that owners of the original XT are still having trouble getting it to work as advertised, especially the touch digitizer. This makes me wonder if these N-Trig digitizers are very expensive to use.
The HP Touchsmart tx2 also uses an N-Trig multi-touch digitizer, and it sells for $1000 in big box stores and for less online with discounts. Could have bought one yesterday for $750. Based on that, I can’t see how the digitizer is to blame for the XT2′s price tag.
avoid the XT at all costs! we have the XT where i work and lets just say my netbook runs faster than its sad little ultra low voltage processors. we have seen TONS of fan failures and just plain horrible performance running exchange/outlook on them (we do run XP Tablet Ed 2005)
def not made for the corp world (or atleast our corp setting) imo.
also, N-Trig drivers are horrible and never updated. Stick w/the Thinkpad or HP tablets imo.
Well, at least it’s well under the original price of the Dell XT, which was about $3,000. I bought mine as a refurb, and I love it. And just for the record, recent updates to the chipset and video driver have nearly licked the issues.
@sbtablet
the video driver that ati/dell released actually breaks all tablet digitizer rotation abilities in xp/xp tablet ed 2005 (just a heads up)
I just bought the hp tx2 for half the price of the XT2, … and now I know why they market it “for consumers”. You just can’t work with it. It is running extremely hot and thus the fan is always running at an incredible noise level. I now have the tx2 running downclocked to 600 MHz and still the fan is louder than my habitual windows sound volume. Problem is, if you play music to drown the fan noise, the higher CPU activity will let the fan run even louder.
I probably will buy the Dell now and pay the price of the hp as learning money.
Other points that make the tx2 a consumer device:
- No cursor keys in tablet mode, which makes web browsing very inconvenient.
- A keyboard that is – in my opinion – not suitable for writing longer texts.
- Very heavy power cord and power supply (for a 1.9kg device).
chuba, the TX2 is solidly pitched as a consumer notebook with tablet functionality. That’s all HP has ever said about it and how we’ve covered it here too.
James, I may be wrong but it’s my understanding that the digitizer issues have now been resolved. Having said that, it took way too long for them to be fixed and Dell is charging way too much for them.
I forgot to mention that anyone who’s participating in the boycott should know that N-Trig is an Israeli company.
too expensive.
Dell XT2 is too expensive, does any one know an article where i can find one on one hardware comparision.