News - Dell updates ultraportable Vostro V130

[HEXUS]

Sexy ‘business laptop’ gets fresh internals and a new lick of paint.

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[semo]

no usb 3.0, no sale

[DDY]

no usb 3.0, no sale

Why would anyone want USB3.0 on an ultra portable?

[miniyazz]

Why would anyone want USB3.0 on an ultra portable?

Why would anyone not want it?

It's not all about transferring terabytes of data. Suppose you wanted to put a video on there from a flash drive/external HDD to watch later - that could weigh in at a few GBs. USB 2.0? 2GB/minute best-case scenario. USB 3? 10GB/minute from your typical external HDD. Your 720p film @ 4.5GB now takes <30s to copy instead of nearer 3 minutes. It's a no-brainer.

The problem, presumably, is that Intel haven't integrated a USB 3 controller onto their motherboards yet - hence all desktop motherboards with USB 3 using another manufacturer's controller.

[MSIC]

The Dell Vostro page does now list the V130 as an option, but no prices available yet.
Also, disappointingly, it lists only the following choices of CPUs:

Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo
Intel® CoreTM 2 Solo
Intel® Celeron

[BullDogg]

The Dell Vostro page does now list the V130 as an option, but no prices available yet.

Can you link? I can't seem to find anything other than the old V13s.

[Sim0n]

http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/busi...bsd&cs=ukbsdt1

[Sim0n]

From a sales chat just now ;

Satish_Sripathy The basic one comes at £545.20 Inc VAT and Shipping.
Satish_Sripathy It comes with Win 7 Home premium 64 bit, 2GB RAM, 320 GB Hard drive & Celeron U3400 Processor

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Simon And what about if i was to go for the ULV i5-470UM and 4Gb ram ?
Simon same everything else
Satish_Sripathy It would be £721.45 then.

Jebus, datz pricy

[chis]

Ugh, why is it still so horrendously expensive to have a quad-core CPU in a laptop? Bah! And I bet these Vostro's don't have expresscard slots. The last Vostro I saw suffered a Geforce 8600M failure. Yeah one of those. Inspired confidence!