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ARM powers innovation in Dell enterprise laptops

First Published on October 14, 2010

“Instant-on” technology has been available from laptop vendors for a number of years now, bypassing the full Windows startup sequence and offering rapid (typically less than 10 seconds) access to a Linux environment that provides web and e-mail services etc. so that a user can quickly access key pieces of information and then shutdown their laptop again so conserving battery life.


Dell has extended the instant-on concept with Latitude ON providing a self-contained secondary system that can boot independently of the main motherboard, bypassing it and hard drive completely, while still being able to access other hardware components (i.e., screen, keyboard, trackpad, and wi-fi or 3G broadband connector) as necessary.

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Thin-Clients for Fat Wallets

First Published on December 9, 2009

Every couple of years I find myself revisiting the age old question, why are thin-clients so expensive? I hadn’t given it much thought for a while, but Dell’s latest post-Black Friday sales flyer arrived in my mail box this evening, awaking the question once again.

Dell is now selling a Home Theater PC (the Inspiron Zino HD) for just $230. For that you get an AMD Athlon 2650e clocked at 1.6GHz , 2GB of Dual Channel RAM, a 250GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive, an 8x DVD+/-RW Drive, an Integrated ATI
Radeon HD3200 graphics adaptor and a copy of Vista Home Basic (although perhaps
the less said about Vista the better).

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