August 16, 2008

Dell’s new business laptops for Digital Nomads

by Brian Turner

Dell are pushing a new line of laptops aimed at business users who need to be mobile most of the time: Digital nomad drives laptop sales.

According to the BBC coverage, these laptops comes with a standard 10 hour battery life, which can be extended to 19 hours if required.

Additionally, they come equipped with fingerprint readers and encrypted vaults for data storage.

Sounds pretty cool, and certainly sounds like Dell have hit upon a real need here.

Certainly low battery life can be seriously frustrating if you need to use a public wif-fi space where there are no accessible plugs.

Plus the security interest seems absolutely necessary. I know I’ve left my laptop on a train before – a couple of years ago I got off at Aberdeen airport, but my laptop carried on to Aberdeen without me – though luckily I got it back safe later.

I’m already looking at encrypting my normal home PC harddrive, but a laptop seems to be screaming for this.

Anyone gets one of the new Dell LAtitude, feel free to post feedback here on it.

Story link: Dell’s new business laptops for Digital Nomads

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