Dell Latitude D830 Announced

The new 15.4-inch Dell Latitude D830 business-class notebook built on new Intel Centrino “Santa Rosa” platform, features improved performance and battery life, as well as an optional wireless N, solid state drive (SSD), hybrid hard drive (H-HDD), and Intel TurboMemory options, Dell Inc. announced.

The PC maker claims that the test of 14.1-inch Latitude D630, which is very similar to D830, shows increased performance over its precursor by up to 15 percent and features up to 9.4 hours of battery life with 9-cell battery.

Dell Latitude D830 is offered with Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7100 (1.8GHz), T7300 (2.0GHz), T7500 (2.2GHz) or T7700 (2.4GHz), all with 800MHz front side bus. The notebook features Intel GM965 chipset paired with integrated Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 or PM965 with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M dedicated graphics card. Its 15.4-inch widescreen display supports up to 1920 x 1200 resolution and it’s “up to 38 percent brighter than the previous generation of notebooks”. Dell Latitude D830 ships with up to 4GB of main DDR2 memory and comes with an optional Intel Turbo Memory “Robson” 1GB card for increased boot-up and applications loading. It has up to 160GB hard drive and a DVD burner and offers a choice of CD-ROM, Combo Drive or DVD burner. Currently, there is no information on availability date of solid state drive and hybrid hard drive options.

Along with an 802.11/a/b/g and an optional 802.11n draft wireless connectivity, Dell Latitude D830 also has a built-in Gigabit Ethernet, an optional Bluetooth, and a 56k modem. There are options of Dell Wireless 5520 Mobile Broadband (HSDPA 3.6) Mini-Card with service from AT&T, and Dell Wireless 5720 Mobile Broadband (EVDO Rev A) Mini-Card with service from Verizon, Sprint and Telus (Canada).

Regarding security, the D830 has integrated smart card and biometric readers, Trusted Platform Module 1.2 and shock protected and fully encrypted hard drives.

There are three USB ports, VGA and S-Video outputs, COM port, Firewire port, PCMCIA card slot, and ExpressCard slot.

Dell Latitude D830 features magnesium alloy construction and weighs starting at 5.97lbs.

It’s base price is $1,249 and it comes with Windows Vista or Windows XP Professional operating system.

Dell Latitude D830 Notebook Computer – Product Page

This article was published on 05/03/2007, and updated with official information on 05/11/2007.

[...] The 14.1-inch D630 and 15.4-inch D830 can be configured now with the 45nm Core 2 Duo T9300 at 2.5GHz and T9500 at 2.6GHz. These CPUs add $130 and $390 to the overall price of the notebook respectively, when selected instead of the older T7250 65nm “Merom” processor at 2GHz. [...]