New Dell Tablet PC & Other Bits
EIS had a very interesting meeting with Dell on Friday and I was fortunate to be present!
I have been given permission to blog (announce?) that Dell will be producing a Tablet PC called the Dell Tablet XT. It will be a clam shell design as opposed to a slate. As Kent has a very large user base of tablet PC's we welcome this announcement from Dell and look forward to evaluating it! We hope to see a pre-production model in July sometime and there is a tentative release date of September.
Specs will include 802.11n wireless, 5 hour battery life with a 10 hour extended battery (great for the classroom) and an innovative design that is only 1" thick and weighs about 1.5kg!
Dell also presented on the new AMD processors for desktop / notebook and servers. They are touting the new processors at very competitve prices so we will be taking a look at these in the next couple of weeks. One feature I particlary liked on the AMD desktop machines was the "no power consumption on idle."