After the announcement for Dell XPS 13 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
(Precise Pangolin), Dell announced a few days ago that they would
expand their range of Linux laptops with a new Precision mobile
workstation pre-installed with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating
system.
Two new laptop models were announced by Dell, the Precision M6700, which
is the lightest 17-inch mobile workstation that features a 17.3-inch
LCD, nine-cell battery and weighs 3.52 kilograms, and the Precision
M4700, which features a 15.6-inch LCD, six-cell battery and weighs
roughly 2.78 kilograms.
Both Precision laptops will feature Intel's latest third-generation Core
i5 and Core i7 CPUs, optional Nvidia Quadro or AMD FirePro
high-definition GPUs, USB 3.0/USB 2.0/eSATA ports, and 256GB/512GB SSDs.
The prices will start from 1,649 USD (1,359 EUR) for the Precision M4700, and 2,189 USD (1,800 EUR) for the Precision M6700.
After announcing a collaboration with Canonical to sell laptops in 850 retail outlets across India, starting this Saturday, July 21st, Dell comes now with another major announcement related to Project Sputnik.
Remember Project Sputnik?
Officially announced as an experiment in May this year, Project Sputnik
was supposed to be an open source laptop targeted for developers, which
will run Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Well, guess what?! Yesterday, July 18th, Dell proudly announced in a
press release that Project Sputnik will become reality this fall, which
will result in a developer laptop based on Dell XPS 13, pre-loaded with
the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system.
Available this fall in selected regions, the Dell XPS 13 laptop will
offer a complete client-to-cloud solution to all Linux developers, with
software to build "microclouds" on their netbooks, in order to simulate
an at-scale environment that can be seamlessly deployed to the cloud.
"This
project represents the first of many new ideas Dell employees will test
with customers or partners through the program, and we look forward to
supporting Sputnik to be successful as it becomes a product this fall," said Nnamdi Orakwue, executive sponsor of the Dell incubation program and executive assistant to Michael Dell.
"Since we announced project
Sputnik a little over two months ago, we have continued to be amazed by
the amount and quality of interest and input we have received."
"By listening to developers,
Dell can provide them with solutions and products to help make them more
productive and allow for greater innovation," said Barton George, project Sputnik lead and director at Dell's web vertical marketing.
In the press release, Dell also announced new technologies and new
partners in order to accelerate customer cloud development and value
from big data. For more details please check out the official
announcement here.
