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This article was written on May 21, 2007 by CyberNet.

It was just a few weeks ago that more rumors were flying around that Dell was planning to launch a Tablet PC towards the end of October. At the time, the rumor claimed that the PC would be based upon a Latitude notebook computer.

As it turns out, it’s true! On Dell’s blog, Jeff Clarke, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Dell’s Business Product Group said in a video that he was there to end much speculation about their plans to enter the Tablet PC Market. The rumors were true.

Clarke says that the Latitude Tablet PC was designed for the education, health care, and corporate market place, and it’s an exciting product. In the video, he says that a lot of engineering has gone into it to make it one of the lightest weight, most convertible tablets in the marketplace.

You can watch the video here:

No pricing has been announced, but if it’s based upon the Latitude D420 notebook computer, the price will be at least $1800+. I also wonder what the battery life will be like. Thus far, Tablet PCs haven’t taken off in popularity like I thought they would when they were introduced several years ago. Perhaps Dell entering the market will change that.

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In other Dell News, Michael Dell was recently interviewed by CRN, and he was quoted as saying that they were going to be “quite aggressive” with the retail channel. Now we’re left to speculate what that means. As of now, the closest they’ve come to “retail” has been with their small kiosks in the malls where you can play around with some of their laptops and pick up a brochure or place an order.

When he says aggressive with the retail channel, that could mean a variety of things. I’d assume it means that consumers will be able to purchase Dell computers in-store at some of the major retailers, or they could always follow in Apple’s footsteps and open their own Dell stores. I tend to think they’d be more likely to go with the first route, and maybe you’ll be purchasing your next Dell computer at Best Buy?

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In business, there’s a right way to take on a rival, and apparently, the Dell way. If you’re up for taking a lesson in the latter, look no further than the CIO article down in our source link. There, Dell’s global head of marketing for large enterprises and public organizations, Andy Lark, attempted to prove why the iPad didn’t stand a chance in the enterprise market — a market where two-thirds of the Fortune 100 are already adopting or piloting the device. The interview meanders on in a few different directions, but the highlight of the whole thing is right here:

“An iPad with a keyboard, a mouse and a case [means] you’ll be at $1500 or $1600; that’s double of what you’re paying,” he claimed. “That’s not feasible…. Apple is great if you’ve got a lot of money and live on an island. It’s not so great if you have to exist in a diverse, open, connected enterprise; simple things become quite complex.”

Even in Australia, the most expensive iPad 2 (a 64GB model with 3G) runs A$949, and unless Lark plans on bundling an Optimus Maximus and Hela Glider Mouse into the package, we’re struggling to see where his estimates came from. In fact, the one thing that major tablet makers have struggled to match the iPad on is price, making the comparison even more galling. ‘Tis a shame — all he would’ve had to do in order to be taken seriously was point out the lackluster screen resolution, omission of a USB port, the missing SD card slot and disgusting reliance on iTunes. Lesson learned, we guess.

Update: Andy himself pinged us to reveal that pricing in the article was actually referring to New Zealand dollars, but confessed that it never cited as such. NZ$1600 rolls down to around $1219, so it starts to make a lot more sense there. This also included basic adapters and such that’d be necessary to make an iPad do fairly basic tasks, like output video and interface with a limited selection of USB peripherals.

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If you liked the idea of the Car2go service we profiled a few weeks back, Smart fortwos available for rent by the minute with and some pretty fancy tracking apps to help you find them, but maybe you wanted to drive something a little bit bigger, BMW has you covered. Well, assuming “you” are German or at least living in Germany. The company has launched its own car sharing service it calls DriveNow. This one is billed as a “premium” — though curiously none of the company’s truly premium models will be offered. That said, the Minis and 1 Series autos that make up the initial fleet are hardly low-rent, and we’d be utterly shocked if the upcoming i3 didn’t get added to the mix down the road too.

Usage details are still a little bit scarce, but we do know that each car will have a dash-mounted Dell Streak through which users will log in after unlocking the car doors with an RFID-equipped membership card or even a suitably endowed drivers license. Renting a car costs 29 cents per minute, up to €14.90 (about $21) per hour, and there will be 300 cars available at first starting in the Munich area. If you’re not in Munich it’s tough cookies for now, but BMW is hoping to have one million members worldwide by 2020. Maybe one of them will be you.

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Dell’s Streak 5 tabletphone hasn’t held our interest much lately, even with Android 2.2 on board, but Dell’s got a new deal that may be too good to pass up. If you already had your heart set on nabbing a Dell notebook or desktop PC priced at over $699 — say, one of those shiny new Sandy Bridge rigs — you can add an unlocked Streak 5 to your cart for an additional Benjamin. Now that’s what we call an impulse buy.

[Thanks, Matthew K.]

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