Comments on: Dell Latitude Z — Wireless Charging and Docking for the Enterprise

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:54:51 +0000

Hi everyone,

I bought the laptop a week ago and these are all good comments. It's a nice, sleek laptop. Expensive but cutting-edge. The wireless dock without ethernet - I missed that one, too. Not sure how I'm going to get around that except for plugging the cord in directly to the laptop. I graduated from an XPS M1710 and loved the big screen on the XPS, but it was a brick. The Z's light weight was an important factor for me.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:26:10 +0000

If I’m not mistaken its actually replicating a USB Dock. Much like how the Lenovo X300′s dock via USB. SO with that comes other limitations like the 22″ screen resolution, single monitor only.. etc. Its not a ‘true’ dock which is unfortunate as I’d buy one of these for every employee if it had the option for even a standard (non wireless dock) that could support dual 24″s like the E Series and D Series Laptops do.

That was the deal breaker for me.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:23:19 +0000

My firm supports hundreds of clients, less than 2% use HP Laptops. 85%+ use Dell, about 5% use Mac and 5% use Lenovo.

The people that use HP’s do not use them as primarys. They sit in the servers rooms as backups and are for the most part a generation or two old as those users have switched to Mac or Dell.

IBM/Lenovo users are hardcore.. they won’t switch to Dell/Mac/Etc they all want their X60′s.. period.

The CEO’s/Partners all want Macs (and thats ok since most don’t do much work, they don’t need Office 2007/Etc)

All admins/assistants/etc use Dell E/D Series Laptops or Optiplex Workstations.

I must admit I have one HP desktop, its in one of our clients serverooms. I use it as a stepping stool to reach items above the rack. Comes in very handy.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:18:56 +0000

The fact that you thought you needed to bring that stand everywhere makes me wonder if you’re qualified to own a computer at all.

By: James

James — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:44:53 +0000

The Wireless Dock doesn’t have ethernet! Yes, you read that right, no ethernet. Sure, it does USB and Display wirelessly, but you have to plug in your ethernet to your laptop if you dont have wifi. Not all offices have wifi. I can’t believe I missed that on the specs.

Why would I assume that a wireless dock would have the same basic features as a normal Dell laptop dock???

By: Dell

Dell — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:58:28 +0000

I guess wireless charging is the future, but it doesn’t seem efficient enough at this point.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:23:51 +0000

The stand is the wireless charger. As the article states:

“The notebook plugs in normally when away from the stand.”

By: danny

danny — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:25:59 +0000

You actually think that you have to use the stand for power? I’d guess that that the brick can plug into both the stand and the laptop.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:43:33 +0000

Not a word was copied from Dell’s ad, contrary to your belief. I had a one-on-one briefing with Dell and went over every aspect of the Z and the wireless technology. I asked a lot of questions which were answered in this post. I also expect to have a hands-on evaluation unit in a few weeks to carry on the direct reporting.

By: Darwin

Darwin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:01:55 +0000

Nothing like writing a blog entry by copying Dells ad. Not thatI expect much more form this site. Many corporations have given up on Dells long ago because of shoddy quality and support and switched to HP laptops. I know of quite a few. Dell and the others trying to copy Apple don’t get that is the OS and hardware combination and how well they work together that makes Macs what they are. Plus its topped off with best in class support. Dull has none of those things. They just throw out products to see what sticks. Like the Adamo that nobody bought. Take a look at their stock price to see the results.

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:39:35 +0000

Wow, impressive design from Dell. They had me at 16″ screen, backlight keyboard, thin form factor. But the wireless charging, wireless dock, and secondary processor are mind boggling. This is a Dell?

The only downside is the screen. I’m not buying a laptop with a resolution less than 1920×1200. Screen size and resolution are more important to me than portability. A 17″ or 18″ version would be even better, but the Latitude Z definitely has me thinking of something other than at 17″ Macbook Pro.

FYI, the link to the Dell website is broken. Hopefully more details will be available soon.

By: joeking

joeking — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:04:56 +0000

Hi,

Can you tell me when it will be launched in India and a rough estimation of how much this awesome laptop will cost in India?

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:40:38 +0000

So what would you rather bring to Starbucks? I tiny AC brick or this annoying “wireless” recharging stand?

Sorry, but give me the AC brick.

Sometimes technology tries to be too cute I think

By: GoodThings2Life

GoodThings2Life — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:41:38 +0000

Very, very nice… but any time the starting price is at my usual cut-off point for a system… ouch.

By: YpoCaramel

YpoCaramel — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:05:35 +0000

Dell’s transforming itself from generic box builder to innovator quite well. A 16″ 4.2ib laptop is quite in itself, but this goes much further.

By: Nameless

Nameless — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:42:39 +0000

I have to admit, there are some pretty cool features to be found in this Latitude Z, particularly the low-power Latitude ON hardware that runs alongside the main Wintel hardware and the inductive notebook stand.

Perhaps some of these features will carry over to a Latitude XT3 convertible Tablet PC, along with a switch to Wacom’s pen+multi-touch digitizer tech…I’m hoping, anyway. (And it’ll probably still be as overpriced as ever, at least from Dell, but at least they might be able to make it look as if it just might be worth the price premium this time.)