Latitude XT Pricing

re: Latitude XT Pricing

Hartung — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:29:18 GMT

Nice spin job, I'm glad that you think that the people who actually know about your product and were hoping you would get into the market, are stupid. Give us some straight answers on why you make this product unsellable; maybe it is so that you can abandon the market saying that no one bought any? of coarse limited to businesses that would never spend that kind of money on an item that is already been bested for the price.

Innovation seems slow to regressive in the IBM clone world. Take a note from apples page sometime.

I bought a tablet the first year they came out in order to support the new tech and because it was a great idea as a college student, colleges are the main market if you could get to them but no, no one can touch your machine without a ten foot poll made of gold.

Thanks a lot dell for taking one step forward and two steps back.

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Pulled_The_Triggerx3 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:00:37 GMT

Well picked up 3 units - company purchase. Priced from dell.ca at $3128CA each (taxes extra). Yes it's expensive BUT talking directly to Dell sales rep. brought the price down to $2929CA ea. and included free express shipping, and Complete care Accidental damage - 3 year amounting to total savings of nearly $800CA per unit. So if you're on the fence just do it b/c if this thing doesn't meet your expectations on the first build,I'm sure there will be a better second build. Hopefully by then, they'll have figured out the tablet game.

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Patty boy — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:18:37 GMT

As far as mass adoption goes, We can hold out for macWorld in a few weeks and hope for a reasonably priced tablet/Ipod combo

My hopes arent' too high though, as the company that modded the macbook into a tablet, finally brought it to market this week. Checking their companies senior leadership team bios shows them to be former apple insiders, and I don't think they would release their product knowing an apple tablet was coming soon.

The modded Macbook has a dual core processor of 2ghz at least, is a slate form factor, and has a slot loading optical drive built-in, for I think $2300.00

If I hear good things about it, I may pop for one of those solely because I use a tablet for taking notes and prefer the Slate tablets.

Ultimately, I'll probably end up with a Motion Computing tablet.

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Patty Boy — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:09:28 GMT

Like to like comparisons that pad your stats and ignore theirs isn't going to help you guys sell this thing.

You really need to do market research before releasing products like this. Judging by the outcry, you obviously had no idea what customers were looking for from you. It's kind of strange, with this whole Dell-to-Dell blog attempt at being "touchy-feely", that you would still manage to entirely ignore the public. But hey, you'll feel it profit sharing time.

The market is an unforgiving mistress. I'm sure whoever headed this fiasco up will take that to heart at his/her next job.

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Shogmaster — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:36:34 GMT

Mike, don't you think the ridiculous price is going to hinder exactly that mass adoption you are talking about?

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mike — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:11:59 GMT

As people, we have the obligation to make progress to benefit the human race. As Tablet PC users, we can do this by bringing tablet PCs to the mainstream. This is our one common and uniting goal.

While everyone on this forum may be too smart/middle class to blow money on the XT, Dell can still do great good in the tablet world. By hypping this tablet on TV commercials in hopes of luring rich people with money to blow for novelty, Dell can take tablets from being nerdy niche devices to being mainstream the same way the Apple II brought home computers to the mainstream and AOL brought the mainstream from dial-in chat rooms to the world wide web.

What's important is that the XT needs to be heavily advertised and glorified by celebrities. It needs to follow more in the footsteps of the Iphone (which was also overpriced), because it is not nearly innovative enough to follow in the footsteps of the StarTAC (as Dell likes to think).

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aikiwolfie — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:46:27 GMT

The problem is Joe this tablet effort from Dell just isn't competative. It's too expensive. We've now had 3 threads here at Direct2Dell and about a half dozen on IdeaStorm (now all merged) of people complaining about the price.

If that isn't enough to get the message across, Dells tablet program is a lost cause.

If wasn't obvious enough already I'll restate capacitive touch doesn't justify the price and neither does the 3 year warranty. HP also give a 3 year warranty with their small business products. I dare that's standard.

Capacitive touch has no application support. Which means it's a technology of little to no value in the consumer market.

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Joe — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:33:28 GMT

Why no comparison to the M700, the newest tablet from Toshiba, which is a direct revision of the M400 which, when Dell first announced working on a tablet, literally ripped to shreds. (Here's the video, via Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/ouch/dell-promotes-laptops-with-toshiba-destruction-283658.php)

Also, to all those people saying negative things about this tablet (namely, most of these posts): this is Dell's first go. There are always going to be revisions on the way!

I applaud Dell for coming up with a sub-4 lb convertable tablet. I look forward to improved versions. Anything to spark some competitiveness in the tablet market is a good thing in my eyes.

re: Latitude XT Pricing

mike — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:14:13 GMT

You are not the government or some big university making prototypes or concepts where price is no issue. You are a bussiness. Your goal is simply to make money, every other issue is a means toward this goal. The fact is that you won't make much money if you can't sell very many products due to high prices (think supply & demand curves from ECO101). And your not stupid-you very well know that. So this just leaves me to believe this product is more of a showcase or beta model for a cheaper, future product you plan to release to make real profits. You simply don't want to say this because you want to make as much money as you can from this overpriced early-adopter model before releasing the cheaper and better future model. But anyone can see this and no one will wait because those newer, more serious models are already out in the form of the tablets of toshiba, fujistu, acer, gateway, etc.

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sfwrtr — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:33:49 GMT

For the longest time, DELL maintained that they would not make a tablet because nobody would want one.

Is this a self-fulfilling prophesy? Price this machine so high and, yes, nobody will want one.

I've had DELL laptops for 8 years. I waited and waited for a tablet, then could not wait any longer and jumped ship for an X61t. I glad I didn't wait. Looking at what you get for the premium price, I still would have chosen the Lenovo - and I thought I was paying a premium price for that machine!

Remember, you are making a tablet computer. A computer without horsepower is a toy.

In a few years, I'll need a new tablet. I hope you can make your price vs feature list a bit more realistic by then.