Latitude XT: Capacitive Touch and More

DELL-Todd S — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:24:49 GMT

@ spzhang

I have forwarded your questions on to some of our contacts to get answers for you. One response I did get is that Windows XP Tablet edition is a variation of Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2. So whatever support XP Pro SP2 has for the Chinese language XP Tablet should as well.

I'm also told we do support both traditional and simplified Chinese for drivers.

I hope this helps.

spzhang — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:03:56 GMT

Anybody can tell me if this Latitude XT supports Chinese languange (reading and printing) like XP professional on a normal PC? Is XP professional still an option or "down grade" at the moment? Anywhere I can have a look at the actual machine in the UK before spending that amount of money?

Or alternatively can I buy one in Hong Kong? if so, any information about the dealers there.

Arthur

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Dave Erickson — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:48:11 GMT

Besides the normal OS differences, what tablet-unique features are lost or compromised for users preferring the Windows XT Tablet Edition 2005 versus the Vista options?

Would this vLOG demonstration essentially be the same, or not?

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Matt — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:44:04 GMT

The way I want this thing configured it would cost 5 grand. All that for a machine with one speaker? My Precision M65 is up to about 3k with the mobile broadband card added. I'm glad to see that dell has introduced tablets, they will have to wait for one to be priced $499 USD at wally world before I could ever afford it.

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Pattyboy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:45:14 GMT

can hear the crickets chirping.

Haven't heard any responses from Dell for a while on the pricing. They can't possibly think from the public and Critcal (magazine) response that they have priced the XT within even $500-750 of the expected price point. The Ntrig screen at most added $200-300 in consumer perception of added value. If something isn't done I see a short life for Ntrig in this country. Hopefully for them, Israel has a booming market for overpriced, underpowered tablet PCs

Amazingly, I think the consensus is that Dell has released a product with less ROI than Vista has. And with even major magazines giving Vista the "biggest dissapointment of the year honors", where does this leave the XT?

I'd really like to hear from someone in marketing, even if it's just to say they are meeting the sales #s they expected. If so, I'll just move on and purchase elsewhere.

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Pattyboy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:28:21 GMT

To Devwild's comment I agree.

If Dell could have come into the tablet market at a less ridiculous price, and had partnered with a company (or just bought them) like Agilix, the producers of Gobinder and Backpack student organization software, they could just about sew up the Student market.

Agilix was so intertwined into the student tablet/laptop use market that they actually had a port into the Blackboard software that many universities used that auto-downloaded new assignments/material for the courses that the student had listed in their Gobinder software. This is the killer app that would have been useful, if not revolutionary for students, but now seems to be dying, as I think the dev work to make it work and maintain it on Vista must have killed their buzz.

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Vo — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:04:29 GMT

Our company waited to see the unit and price before we can make a decision to buy about 50 of these unit. After seeing the price, even from our Dell rep. we now decided to go with either Toshiba or Lenovo.

I think Dell has kill themselves with the pricing.

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Matthew Holden — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:33:02 GMT

Complete waste by Dell and too slow to the market. I've been using a Motion Computing LE1600 Tablet (Slate) for years to take advantage of tablet technology. The LE1600 has been replaced by the LE1700 which offers touch and stylus screens. I am not upgrading to LE1700 as still no firewire and limited to only 60Gb hard drive as they use a hard-to-obtain Toshiba 1.8" hard drive.

Weight and slimform factor are crucial and you CANNOT use a swivel screen for the purposes of lectures, meetings etc - it is impractical.

This Dell model has a purpose but I cannot see Dell sales taking off based on performance and price as a result.

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Ronnie — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:30:03 GMT

Craig it should be up on the website on Tues according to my Dell rep, he actually was able to qoute me on one with specs that were available which I posted a little further up this blog.

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devwild — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:45:48 GMT

Steve: I partly agree with you on the multi-touch responsibilities. The majority of the responsibility goes to the software developers, and Microsoft is already working on this supposedly. However:

* The best successes in computer technology arrive when hardware and software companies partner closely on these projects. Intel in particular has long known this, and has done a great job of bringing companies together to do some really cool things (The Motion C5, the first result of the mobile clinical assistant project is a recent example, if Motion can get it shipped). When there isn't such cooperation, they tend to flop (The UMPC is a recent example by my measure - after the initial drive by microsoft/intel, both parties, plus the OEMs, acted independently and lost momentum, so we still lack both well designed hardware, and touch/performance optimized software)

* If Dell wishes to enter the tablet market at this time, they should release options that make sense or they will not get out of the gate. If the capacitive panel costs so much that it puts the product out of reach to both business and personal customers, then they should provide the option of a (well supported) Wacom based panel at a more palatable price (yes, it would still be on the expensive side because it's a thin convertible). Besides, we aren't going to see any significant multi-touch support until Window 7 is released. That's potentially years of sales lost, as well as the feedback necessary to provide a better quality product when the time is right.

If I remember correctly from discussion with Dell last October, there is already more development down the pipe after the XT, so perhaps there will be more options shortly and all this is for nothing. Perhaps the XT is just meant to show Dell can release a product that has some leading technology and design, rather than just following the pack (though I don't fully see the logic in doing this as a Latitude, a line meant for reliability).