Latitude D-420/620 and 820 discussion - Page 11

bcmull · June 5th, 2006

How does the battery life of t620 compares to the 610?

**Sazar** · June 5th, 2006

It's better but not by much.

However you can get a longer life battery which has much better performance.

Btw, I just played around with the 20" XPS behemoth

It weighs a ton but it's not overly unweildy.

And the detachable keyboard and touch-sensitive buttons are unbelievable.

Plus, the woofer on this baby ROCKS

Impractical? Definitely not for presentations and a mobile entertainment system.

**Electronic Punk** · June 5th, 2006

Yeah I saw that the same day I was the 620.
Looks bloody horrible really ;p

**Sazar** · June 6th, 2006

Well, I thought the same till I started using the bugger.

It's pretty well built

Love the screen and speakers. Totally ace

**Sazar** · June 12th, 2006

Well, it's almost here.

Release information present. Am going to a shindig on Thursday for more hands-on experience. Looks pretty good, am really digging the magnesium casing. The new dock is also ridiculously light-weight and thin, not going to add as much bulk as the older ones for the 410 and the x-1.

Also, is thinner/lighter than the 410 by far

scubakid87 · June 12th, 2006

how much is the base d420 going to approximately cost? and when the d420 is released are the prices of the x300 and x1 going to go down much? I would like to get an ultraportable, but money would be an issue. Thanks.

**Sazar** · June 12th, 2006

I don't know.

I might be able to say on Thursday.

**Electronic Punk** · June 13th, 2006

Nice Saz.

Jut recieved the 620 with both 3.5g and the nvidia card, doing a windowsxp install now, can only hope it will do Glass in Vista.

Also means I will inherit a 610 with an X300 so will get glass myself (woo!)

**Sazar** · June 13th, 2006

Lemme know if the 3g whatsit issues you had are kinda fixed

Gonna be hands on with the 9g Poweredge server's today. New intel cores are looking ridiculously good, dual-buses? All day baby.

Thursday, I'll try and update. The 420 doesn't have a discrete card so it's not going to be doing Glass.

**Electronic Punk** · June 13th, 2006

Well it was missing before, almost certainly in there now after - Vodafone even bundled a 256meg dongle (woo?), build is just doing some post install now and i will see what missing (nvidia drivers for example)

Can you get me specs on the new database servers? Last suitable are 2850 for us, knowing whats next would be nice.

What card does the 420 have? Something by Intel?

**Sazar** · June 13th, 2006

I was checking out the Poweredge 2900 with dual proc/dual-core Xeon's in there. Is a bloody nice system

everything is so easy to remove and add and EVERYTHING has cooling. Should see the cooling where the Ram sits.

The rig I was looking at had dual 930 W redundant psu's and had a pretty hefty SAS going, forgot the capacity of the drives.

Was running dual Dempsey core's, there should be some Woodcrests coming soon I would think, don't remember what date the bloke said. Lots of expansion slots, upto 48GB mem, single/dual ranked, has a nifty little read-out in the front for error messages, can be customized for your own type of error messages as well. BTX form-factor and lots and lots of fans on the inside. Chassis is pretty solidly built, I like it better than the 2xxx series cases. Serial port on the top/front of chassis, along with the USB's and the hot-swappable HDD's in the front of the chassis pop out pretty easily

Wrt the 420, I think the Intel GMA 950 is the IGP.

**Electronic Punk** · June 13th, 2006

How many HDD slots has it got/

**Sazar** · June 13th, 2006

I forget how many internally.

I believe I saw about 6 hot-swappable bays on the front. I could be wrong, I spent most of my time playing around on the inside with the mobo and the psu's.

**Electronic Punk** · June 14th, 2006

Ok, cos the 2850 had 5 which is utterly useless for databases.

**Sazar** · June 14th, 2006

Well, I got some more info, posted on the Dell site since this morning (or yesterday, whatever).

http://www.dell.com/content/products...n=specs#tabtop

Hard Drives2:
3.5" SAS (10K rpm) 73GB, 146GB or 300GB hot-plug hard drives

3.5" SAS (15K rpm) 36GB, 73GB or 146GB hard drives

3.5" SATA (7.2K rpm) 80GB, 160GB or 250GB3

Internal storage
10 x 3.5" hot-plug SAS drives (10K and 15K) or 10 x 7.2K SATA drives

Standard internal hard drive bays support up to eight 3.5" SAS or SATA hot plug hard drives

Flexbay support for up to two 3.5" hot-plug drives or full height tape device

Peripheral bay support for two half-height devices (tape drive plus one optional CD-ROM, optional DVDROM or Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM); optional 3.5" floppy drive bay.

So yah, plenty of storage for you

Upto 3 TB per the spec sheet.

**Sazar** · June 15th, 2006

Core solo == June 20th, core duo likely sometime in July or August.

Waiting for Intel to provide the lower power procs for the dual-core.

The notebook is tiny, feels smaller than the X-1 even though it is actually a little larger. Very light and very strong, no flexing when I picked it up.

Screen is good quality too, has a little pointer and a touchpad so you can use both. The dock is ultra-thin and ultra-light, makes it easy to carry round. Battery doesn't block ports in the front, instead it protrudes a little in the front.

IGP only.

**Electronic Punk** · June 16th, 2006

Ok, thats not a rack solution tho sadly (as was told on wed), 2950 should be tho?

**Sazar** · June 16th, 2006

Per the naming convention, it should be multi-core/gen 9, rack IIRC.

**madmatt** · June 16th, 2006

Originally Posted by Sazar

The notebook is tiny, feels smaller than the X-1 even though it is actually a little larger. Very light and very strong, no flexing when I picked it up.

Screen is good quality too, has a little pointer and a touchpad so you can use both. The dock is ultra-thin and ultra-light, makes it easy to carry round. Battery doesn't block ports in the front, instead it protrudes a little in the front.

IGP only.

I am joining this conversation in the middle... which notebook is this?

**Sazar** · June 16th, 2006

Latitude D-420.

9 cell battery == 7+ hrs of battery time (depending on use of-course)

June 5th, 2006	Top \| #201
bcmull OSNN Junior Addict Joined: April 2006 Posts: 6 Reputation: 0 Power: 71	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion How does the battery life of t620 compares to the 610?

June 5th, 2006	Top \| #202
Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,880 Reputation: 4110 Power: 309	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion It's better but not by much. However you can get a longer life battery which has much better performance. Btw, I just played around with the 20" XPS behemoth It weighs a ton but it's not overly unweildy. And the detachable keyboard and touch-sensitive buttons are unbelievable. Plus, the woofer on this baby ROCKS Impractical? Definitely not for presentations and a mobile entertainment system. Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?

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Electronic Punk The Last High Joined: December 2001 Location: London Posts: 18,506 Blog Entries: 51 Reputation: 3652 Power: 346	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Yeah I saw that the same day I was the 620. Looks bloody horrible really ;p

June 6th, 2006	Top \| #204
Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,880 Reputation: 4110 Power: 309	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Well, I thought the same till I started using the bugger. It's pretty well built Love the screen and speakers. Totally ace Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?

June 12th, 2006	Top \| #205
Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,880 Reputation: 4110 Power: 309	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Well, it's almost here. Release information present. Am going to a shindig on Thursday for more hands-on experience. Looks pretty good, am really digging the magnesium casing. The new dock is also ridiculously light-weight and thin, not going to add as much bulk as the older ones for the 410 and the x-1. Also, is thinner/lighter than the 410 by far Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?

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June 12th, 2006	Top \| #206
scubakid87 OSNN One Post Wonder Joined: June 2006 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Power: 0	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion how much is the base d420 going to approximately cost? and when the d420 is released are the prices of the x300 and x1 going to go down much? I would like to get an ultraportable, but money would be an issue. Thanks.

June 12th, 2006	Top \| #207
Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,880 Reputation: 4110 Power: 309	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion I don't know. I might be able to say on Thursday. Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?

June 13th, 2006	Top \| #208
Electronic Punk The Last High Joined: December 2001 Location: London Posts: 18,506 Blog Entries: 51 Reputation: 3652 Power: 346	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Nice Saz. Jut recieved the 620 with both 3.5g and the nvidia card, doing a windowsxp install now, can only hope it will do Glass in Vista. Also means I will inherit a 610 with an X300 so will get glass myself (woo!)

June 13th, 2006	Top \| #209
Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,880 Reputation: 4110 Power: 309	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Lemme know if the 3g whatsit issues you had are kinda fixed Gonna be hands on with the 9g Poweredge server's today. New intel cores are looking ridiculously good, dual-buses? All day baby. Thursday, I'll try and update. The 420 doesn't have a discrete card so it's not going to be doing Glass. Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?

June 13th, 2006	Top \| #210
Electronic Punk The Last High Joined: December 2001 Location: London Posts: 18,506 Blog Entries: 51 Reputation: 3652 Power: 346	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Well it was missing before, almost certainly in there now after - Vodafone even bundled a 256meg dongle (woo?), build is just doing some post install now and i will see what missing (nvidia drivers for example) Can you get me specs on the new database servers? Last suitable are 2850 for us, knowing whats next would be nice. What card does the 420 have? Something by Intel?

June 13th, 2006	Top \| #211
Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,880 Reputation: 4110 Power: 309	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion I was checking out the Poweredge 2900 with dual proc/dual-core Xeon's in there. Is a bloody nice system everything is so easy to remove and add and EVERYTHING has cooling. Should see the cooling where the Ram sits. The rig I was looking at had dual 930 W redundant psu's and had a pretty hefty SAS going, forgot the capacity of the drives. Was running dual Dempsey core's, there should be some Woodcrests coming soon I would think, don't remember what date the bloke said. Lots of expansion slots, upto 48GB mem, single/dual ranked, has a nifty little read-out in the front for error messages, can be customized for your own type of error messages as well. BTX form-factor and lots and lots of fans on the inside. Chassis is pretty solidly built, I like it better than the 2xxx series cases. Serial port on the top/front of chassis, along with the USB's and the hot-swappable HDD's in the front of the chassis pop out pretty easily Wrt the 420, I think the Intel GMA 950 is the IGP. Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?

June 13th, 2006	Top \| #212
Electronic Punk The Last High Joined: December 2001 Location: London Posts: 18,506 Blog Entries: 51 Reputation: 3652 Power: 346	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion How many HDD slots has it got/

June 13th, 2006	Top \| #213
Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,880 Reputation: 4110 Power: 309	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion I forget how many internally. I believe I saw about 6 hot-swappable bays on the front. I could be wrong, I spent most of my time playing around on the inside with the mobo and the psu's. Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?

June 14th, 2006	Top \| #214
Electronic Punk The Last High Joined: December 2001 Location: London Posts: 18,506 Blog Entries: 51 Reputation: 3652 Power: 346	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Ok, cos the 2850 had 5 which is utterly useless for databases.

June 14th, 2006	Top \| #215
Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,880 Reputation: 4110 Power: 309	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Well, I got some more info, posted on the Dell site since this morning (or yesterday, whatever). http://www.dell.com/content/products...n=specs#tabtop Hard Drives2: 3.5" SAS (10K rpm) 73GB, 146GB or 300GB hot-plug hard drives 3.5" SAS (15K rpm) 36GB, 73GB or 146GB hard drives 3.5" SATA (7.2K rpm) 80GB, 160GB or 250GB3 Internal storage 10 x 3.5" hot-plug SAS drives (10K and 15K) or 10 x 7.2K SATA drives Standard internal hard drive bays support up to eight 3.5" SAS or SATA hot plug hard drives Flexbay support for up to two 3.5" hot-plug drives or full height tape device Peripheral bay support for two half-height devices (tape drive plus one optional CD-ROM, optional DVDROM or Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM); optional 3.5" floppy drive bay. So yah, plenty of storage for you Upto 3 TB per the spec sheet. Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?

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Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,880 Reputation: 4110 Power: 309	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Core solo == June 20th, core duo likely sometime in July or August. Waiting for Intel to provide the lower power procs for the dual-core. The notebook is tiny, feels smaller than the X-1 even though it is actually a little larger. Very light and very strong, no flexing when I picked it up. Screen is good quality too, has a little pointer and a touchpad so you can use both. The dock is ultra-thin and ultra-light, makes it easy to carry round. Battery doesn't block ports in the front, instead it protrudes a little in the front. IGP only. Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?

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Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,880 Reputation: 4110 Power: 309	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Per the naming convention, it should be multi-core/gen 9, rack IIRC. Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?

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madmatt Bow Down to the King Joined: April 2002 Location: New York Posts: 13,312 Reputation: 4090 Power: 293	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Originally Posted by Sazar The notebook is tiny, feels smaller than the X-1 even though it is actually a little larger. Very light and very strong, no flexing when I picked it up. Screen is good quality too, has a little pointer and a touchpad so you can use both. The dock is ultra-thin and ultra-light, makes it easy to carry round. Battery doesn't block ports in the front, instead it protrudes a little in the front. IGP only. I am joining this conversation in the middle... which notebook is this?

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Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,880 Reputation: 4110 Power: 309	Re: New latitude D-420/620 and 820 and Inspiron discussion Latitude D-420. 9 cell battery == 7+ hrs of battery time (depending on use of-course) Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?