Dell Latitude D630, D830 and Latitude D531 Announced

Dell is today introducing three new laptops, the Latitude D630 and Latitude D830 will both be equipped with the new Intel Santa Rosa chipset, while the D531 budget business notebook comes with an AMD processor.

Latitude D630

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The Dell Latitude D630 is the evolution of the Latitude D620 (D620 Review). The D630 will be a 14.1" widescreen business notebook equipped with the Intel Santa Rosa platform. The processor and chipset upgrade will of course be good news to business consumers, but probably equally good news is the fact that Dell is going to include a brighter display than the proceeding D620, which many people griped about. The standard brightness will be about 220-nits instead of the 180 or so that the D620 came with. The full set of updates that the D630 carries over the D620 are as follows:

• Latest Intel Core 2 Duo processor offering, featuring Santa Rosa platform with 800MHz speed FSB, Intel Turbo memory, faster processor offerings
• Faster 802.11n wireless
• 1394-port (FireWire) added
• Choice of Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or FreeDOS as the OS
• Brighter display, at least 220 nits standard. An improvement over the D620 which was sub-200 nits.
• Advanced hard drive options: Encrypted hard drive, Solid State Drive offerings, Intel Turbo Memory (1GB), Hybrid drives (SSD drives and Hybrid drives will not be offered initially but are planned for later on)
• Two graphics choices: Intel X3100 integrated graphics or NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M graphics

Outside of these additions to the D620 the D630 remains the same design wise. Which is just fine, the D620 was an attractive notebook and no need to overhaul the design yet. The D630 will come in with a weight of 4.48lbs.

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Latitude D830

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Again, the Dell Latitude D830 is simply an evolution of the Latitude D820 (D820 Review). The D830 is a 15.4" widescreen notebook that will use the next generation Intel Santa Rosa platform. Following are the updates and changes the D830 brings over the D820:

• Latest Intel Core 2 Duo processor offering, featuring Santa Rosa platform with 800MHz speed FSB, 802.11n wireless, Intel Turbo memory, faster processor offerings
• Faster 802.11n wireless
• Choice of Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or FreeDOS as the OS
• Three graphics choices: Intel X3100 integrated graphics or NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M and 140M
• 15.4" WXGA, WSXGA+ UltraSharp and WUXGA UltraSharp
• Added S-video (IR port removed)
• Advanced hard drive options: Encrypted hard drive, Solid State Drive offerings, Intel Turbo Memory (1GB), Hybrid drives (SSD drives and Hybrid drives will not be offered initially but are planned for later on)

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Latitude D531

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The Dell Latitude D531 is not an Intel notebook but rather will offer the AMD Turion X2 or AMD Sempron processor. The D531 uses the same build as the D520 Intel based notebook. It has a 14.1" or 15.4" widescreen display and will be the first Latitude notebook to offer the TrueLife glossy display. Some quick specs on the D531 are:

• AMD Sempron or Turion X2 processor
• Microsoft Windows Vista OS
• Gigabit Ethernet
• TPM 1.2 and Wave Embassy Trust Suite security
• Wireless 802.11n, Bluetooth
• Widescreen 14.1" WXGA, 15.4" WXGA or 15.4" WXGA+ with TrueLife
• Weight: 5.1lbs

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The starting price for the D531 is $839 with the Sempron processor and $879 with a Turion X2 processor.