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If you want a laptop to impress, then a likely choice is a high-end MacBook rather than an amorphous black box Windows notebook, that looks about as cool as a fridge-freezer. With admiring glances in mind, is Dell's Inspiron Latitude Z, a machine the company is heralding as the thinnest and most stylish 16in laptop around. …

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  1. That Awful Puppy
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    At least it's not overpriced like a Mac

    I mean, for just 300 quid less, you could buy a Macbook Pro with vastly superior specs, at the expense of an added pound of weight and 4 mm of additional thickness, but a smaller overall footprint.

    Yay for Dell!

  2. John A Blackley

    Pretty

    But it's still a Dell.

  3. Gordon 10
    FAIL

    Having a giraffe

    For similar money you can get a vaio Z with better processor (i5/i7), battery life (2-5hrs), better graphics (nvidia), smaller screen 13.1 with higher res (900 or 1080) and lighter (1.4kg) with a built in DVD and QUAD Raid SSD.

    Im no Sony fanboi but it eats most other "exec" laptops for brekkie lunch and dinner. And who do you think a badge hungry exec would prefer Sony or Dell?

  4. Bruce MacDonald
    WTF?

    No compromises?

    Erm, no compromises you said? 2 USB ports?

    I was waiting for you to say "and another two on the other side" or something, but no ...

    No compromises?

    Then there's the price: 1800 quid? That's crazy money!

  5. Anonymous Coward
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    @ PinkFreud

    So your objections to this review are the spelling of the word 'matt' and the use of benchmarks?

    Well, I hate to piss on your parade but you can spell matte (my preference it has to be said) in three ways - mat, matt and matte - when talking about a dull or non-reflective surface and all three are equally good so can I suggest that you buy a bloody dictionary before next spouting off?

    Next up, how else would you suggest magazines and web sites try to illustrate comparative performance between different machines other than with a system like PCMark Vantage?

    On balance I'd day this is a pretty fair review, and I actually have a Latitude Z. OK, it's a company machine so I didn't have to cough up the £1,800 but I've had the thing for four months and so far I am pretty impressed.

    In short you sir, are a twit.

  6. Kurt 4
    WTF?

    no keypad

    Business users want a keypad!!!

  7. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    oh my god...

    how much for a laptop that looks like it was designed in 1992 by a blind man???

    you are having a laugh, dell where is your head at?

  8. Ron1
    FAIL

    Review of a 6+ months old machine?

    Sorry, but epic fail:

    You did not mention Lenovo X301 as an alternative - it does have smaller screen, but not much smaller screen real estate (1440x900), plus a DVD-RW drive & weighs 30% less.

    Why you chose to review a laptop released in Sep 09 (and reviewed in Oct 09) only now I do not understand. You did not even test the one innovative feature - induction charging.

    Why not rather review the new Latitude E6510 or E6410?

    Or perhaps get some info from Dell:

    - The E6510 at least has a Full-HD 1920x1080 screen option @15.6"; is this coming to z600 too?

    - will there be a Z lineup = 14" z400, 15" z500?

    - when will backlit keyboards be available with with Exx10 series in EU?

    PS: sorry for this, looks like I have a bad day :)

    TGIF!

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