Dell Forums - Dell Latitude 13 Ultraportable and Updated M6500 Mobile Workstation

It's been one of those busy product days today. Earlier we unveiled the Alienware M11x portable gaming laptop. Now, I'm going to shift gears a bit to talk about two new products for business customers: the ultraportable Latitude 13 and the updated Dell Precision M6500 Mobile Workstation.

The Latitude 13 builds on the success we've seen with the Vostro V13 and small business customers who value the thin and light design, solid performance and strong battery life. ZDNet even referred to the Latitude 13 as the "Enterprise version of the Vostro V13," which is not far off the mark. The Latitude 13 adds features such as remote manageability and desktop virtualization throughcertification from Citrix and VMware to deliver a full PC experience to users in non-standardcomputing environments such as call centers, regional offices and hotels;Comprehensive systems management with supportfor BroadcomTruManage technology and DellImageDirect service which lets IT create, update and deploy system images24/7 from a secure online location;Flexible connectivity options from mobile broadband and Wi-Fi via 802.11 g/n; and customized security offerings including solid-statedrives (SSD), full disk encryption (FDE), Trusted Platform Module (TPM) controland Computrace software. The Latitude 13 will be available for order in the next several weeks.
Next up is the updated M6500 mobile workstation. When we introduced it originally introduced it in December last year, the M6500 was already the most powerful

and expandable mobile workstation we've ever offered. We'll continue to offer quad core i7 processors, but now we're expanding processor options to include Intel's i5 processors. We also continue to offer workstation-class 1GB graphics options from both AMD and NVIDIA (watch Inside Enterprise IT for guest posts from each of those companies very soon by the way). It also has 4 DIMM slots for up to 16GB RAM, can support 3 internal hard drives to make RAID 5 a possibility. It also supports an optional RGB LED edge-to-edge 17-inch screen with 100 percent user-selectable colorgamut support. And for those that need external bandwidth, you can outfit the M6500 with USB 3.0.

The dual-core versions of theDell Precision M6500 will be available for order in the coming weeks. Moredetails are available at www.dell.com/precision. If you missed this video featuring Autodesk's Steven Roselle about what an M6500 workstation means to graphics professionals.

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Customers our employees talk to stress the importance to meet the needs of an increasingly demanding mobile workforce while providing the security and systems management tools required to make it all work. This is a common struggle for all organizations, big and small.

Of particular interest to our customers is how they can better:

Provide the right tools for the job – How does an IT organization support specialty use cases (24/7 connectivity, tailored computing solutions like convertible tablets and mobile workstations) while maintaining a common level of support?
Keep a diverse workforce productive and happy –Is there room for individual expression with designs that are as cool looking as they are efficient and easy to manage?
Manage technology transition without workforce interruption – How does IT support OS migrations and new technologies like desktop virtualization?

The Latitude 13 and Dell Precision M6500 help address these issues not only through the design elements end-users can see but also IT-empowering features such as remote manageability, common imaging, and embedded agents that make implementing desktop virtualization easier. Click on either of the embedded pictures to see larger versions, or you can click on this set to see both the Latitude 13 and the updated Dell Precision M6500 mobile workstation.