Today Dell was showing off its new line of Latitude business notebooks and the Vostro V130 ultraportable notebook for small businesses. Towards the end of the presentation, a Dell spokesperson glossed over the new Latitude XT3, a convertible Tablet PC. Remember those? The Latitude XT3 is a lot different than the XT2, which came before it. [...]
I just received word from @LionelatDell and @BillatDell that Windows 7 drivers for the Latitude XT are being posted today, this includes functional N-Trig digitizer drivers. Direct link to Windows 7 N-trig drivers: 32 bit: http://bit.ly/5uRRce, 64 bit: http://bit.ly/4SNW46 As of this writing, they are not there yet. I understand they are working on adding [...]
The following is a guest editorial by Rob Bushway, the founder and former owner of GottaBeMobile.com. Like many men, I take my role as a father very seriously. It is not only my job to teach my children principles in how we live and treat each other, but also to try and model those same [...]
This little “Held hostage” feature is generating a lot of comments here on GBM with some saying we’re overdoing it, and some very angry with Dell for the lack of movement. Here’s the deal. This doesn’t just involve the Windows 7 drivers for the Dell Latitude XT it involves other Dell hardware as well. All [...]
Yes, we’re 8 days into the Dell Latitude XT Drivers Held Hostage and while we have some communication going on with Dell, we still know things are on some burner that can best be described as no where near the front of the oven. Rob has posted this on the Dell’s IdeaStorm site, and from [...]
Well, the saga continues and at least today we have some new information. Although I’m not sure this is going to make any Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC users happy. From his undisclosed prison cell Rob Bushway forwarded me this series of tweets from RichardatDell. From the looks of things, Latitude XT owners are now [...]
Yes, another day goes by, and Rob and other Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC users are still without Windows 7 drivers. We’re not just talking touch drivers here, we’re talking any Windows 7 drivers. We’re also hearing that we may have to start a watch for the HP TX Convertible Tablet PCs as well.
Oh, no! They got Rob! Well, actually they didn’t get Rob, he, like other Dell Latitude XT users are having their Windows 7 drivers for the Latitude held hostage by Dell. We’re now into Day 5 and counting. I hope they at least give him some bread and water.
Rob Bushway keeps plugging away at Dell and the lack of drivers for the Dell Latitude XT now that Windows 7 is released. He’s been twittering about it each day since the big release day on Thursday. So, I’d thought I’d help our founder out here, and we’ll run a “Held Hostage” post each day [...]
Dell’s offering $838 off Latitude XT tablet. It comes with a three-year warranty, two batteries and an optical drive. The Latitude’s original price was $2,807, but the discount drops the price down to $1969. You can customize it to your liking and add on an Inspiron Mini 9 for $99. For full details visit LogicBuy.
Dell Latitude XT users might want to check this out — Dell has released an updated version of their popular Dell Dock, a free program launching utility giving you quicker access to frequently used programs. I believe it is a custom version of Stardock’s ObjectDock. (thanks, Patrick) Unfortunately, the Dell Dock will only install [...]
There is a lot of work going on behind the scenes with Dell and N-Trig to get to the bottom of the Dell Latitude XT N-Trig digitizer issues. Steve Seto, a Microsoft Tablet PC MVP, has created a poll in the Dell forum seeking users experience with the N-Trig digitizer and we need your help [...]
GottaBeMobile.com forum member krdu has gotten very close to solving the Dell Latitude XT / N-Trig digitizer issues, thanks to some persistent dialogue with N-Trig. Apparently, N-Trig is aware of the problem driver and boot-up problems causing the “digitizer not found” errors, which involves a driver called GearAspiWDM.sys which is made by a company called [...]
In many ways, the Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC has become one of my favorite Tablet PCs. It is very thin, light, has ample room on the wrist pad for typing, has a scroll wheel, and is generally pleasant to use in portrait mode. It goes to sleep and resumes very quickly. It is also [...]
One of the first things I want to see on a tablet pc is how far the sd card sticks out. I know it sounds like a strange thing to be worried about, but when I’m using a tablet pc in portrait mode, it frustrates me a lot when the sd card sticks out, making [...]
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