Dell runs a leaky ship it seems. After an earlier roadmap leaked detailing Dell’s upcoming tablet endeavors, it is now the company’s Precision line of laptops that is stepping out a bit early.
The newest M4600 mobile workstation is a 15.6″ beast that will accept hardware up to a quad-core Intel Core i7 Extreme 2920M, 32GB of RAM and either a 1 GB AMD FirePro M5950 or 1GB Nvidia Quadro 2000M. Moving things along further with the M6600 brings you all the bells and whistles on the M4600 as well as the option to equip a 2GB AMD FirePro M8900 or 4GB Nvidia Quadro 5010M.
Both laptops will ship with 2 x USB 2.0 and 2 x USB 3.0 ports, eSATA, and IEEE 1394 inputs. Your standard assortment of wired and wireless network protocols are hear as well.
Pricing and release information aren’t available quite yet. Though judging by the power packed within, expect corporate sized expenditures (read: really freakin’ expensive).
Why would you want to pick up a copy of and install BlackBerry Application Suite on your Windows Mobile device? Well, if you wanted to give RIM’s BlackBerry OS a try without jumping fully on board, this would be a way to do so. It’s been quite awhile since the Application Suite was shown off on camera — many months to be exact. At that time, RIM themselves mentioned that both BES and BIS versions were coming. See as how this leak is an unofficial release, the lack of a “complete” package isn’t too surprising.
If you’re feeling lucky, head on over to xda-forums to score yourself a copy of the Application Suite.
As you wait to for page to load, there’s a few things you should know. Namely, this leaked version is the BES version meaning you’ll have to have access to a BES server or else it won’t work. Period. Second, the OS that you’re emulating is of the 4.5 era (according to BerryReivew) — hardly new or exciting anymore. While I don’t necessarily discredit BerryReview’s claims, if the image displayed on the image above — which was pulled from BerryReview — is the ApplicationSuite, it looks more like 4.6+ to me as no 4.5 devices had the newer BB Precision theme. It could be a special skin for 4.5 and the Application Suite though. In the end, BlackBerries are BerryReview’s thing. So more likely than not I’m in the wrong. Anyone care to chime in and set me straight?
So far a few WinMo users have chimed in saying they got the App Suite up and running on a Windows Mobile 6.5.x ROM and all was well except not having access to a BES server. Even for users not on 6.5, you should be pretty well off regardless. Let us know how it goes.
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