Latitude XFR D630: A Laptop for Harsh Environments

re: Latitude XFR D630: A Laptop for Harsh Environments

doc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:22:00 GMT

Is anyone actually using one? I, like Dan, have a ship date of late May. Does it really take that long to build one of these things? 6g's should get you some kind of priority build status!

re: Latitude XFR D630: A Laptop for Harsh Environments

whatup — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:47:36 GMT

best computer ever

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Bruno — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:14:22 GMT

Will it be available in Canada?

re: Latitude XFR D630: A Laptop for Harsh Environments

Dan D. — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:52:13 GMT

Looks great but it takes forever to ship!!! I ordered mine in early March and the shipping date isn't until May 8. If you need it quickly then avoid the XFR. Sad but I even called and emailed to try to speed things up for use to evaluate for a large DoD project but no change in date.

Dan

re: Latitude XFR D630: A Laptop for Harsh Environments

Ashe — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:47:35 GMT

Can you upgrade the vid card to an 8800m GTX....just wondering since we can't get an answer on the 1730 side???

re: Latitude XFR D630: A Laptop for Harsh Environments

IonOne — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:41:33 GMT

Does the XFR D630 had a fanless design ?

re: Latitude XFR D630: A Laptop for Harsh Environments

ethana2 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:30:32 GMT

That much closer to the Ultimate Laptop ^_^

..just needs a waterproof webcam and mic, 8 or 16 GB SSD (why pay for capacity you don't use at those rates?) Extra battery instead of an optical drive bay (external blu-ray/dvd/CD-burner drive) shipped with no OS preinstalled or Ubuntu Hardy..

...OLED screen, stylus included, solar panels over the top third of the back of the screen, vertical finned aluminium heat sink up the bottom two thirds of the screen with a heat exchanging copper screen pivot of some kind...

...I think that's it... I would consider that laptop nearly perfect. Expensive certainly, but technically feasible. ...has anyone made a laptop with 12 hour battery life yet?

re: Latitude XFR D630: A Laptop for Harsh Environments

Lionel_Menchaca — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:13:44 GMT

jervis961: You're right... it's not the same capacitive touch technology that we feature on the Latitude XT.

I saw you corrected yourself before I could comment.I figured it would get confusing—that's why I bolded the word resistive. Still, I was afraid it wouldn't be enough.

re: Latitude XFR D630: A Laptop for Harsh Environments

jervis961 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:13:08 GMT

OOPS! I just noticed it isn't the same touchsreen technology as the XT.

re: Latitude XFR D630: A Laptop for Harsh Environments

jervis961 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:10:28 GMT

Looks like it makes a nice secondary weapon too. I'd hate to get smacked with that thing. :)

Very nice looking for what it is. I guess since the touchscreen is only a $500 upgrade it kind of eliminates that for being the reason the Lattitude XT is so expensive.