Dave Ruth: We, we know that going back about eight years or
so, PCs were becoming more com... it was really more of a
commoditized market. And what we see now is that users and
especially even in the b2b community are wanting more
innovation, especially at the high end, high end of the
range. So we've seen this trend towards innovation and high
end technology, even at a desktop PC. And so what we've
developed here is we've created a new 9000-class Latitude
commercial business line. And this 9510 notebook here is our
first, most innovative, highest in notebook that we released
with a 15 inch notebook that starts at only 3.2 pounds. And
it's our first offering with AI and machine learning to help
customers become or help users become more efficient in
their work day. And one of the, you know, just kind of at a
high level, the way this AI machine learning works is that
it recognizes is the way that you work in a number of
different areas, including battery management, application
development. And even just kind of in the way, the way that
you toggle between different applications and use cases. So
it's, you know, it's also our first offering that have to
have both within the same model, a two in one offering, as
well as a note standard notebook offering it for, you know,
for business users that actually makes it really easy. It's
one image, one type of model to deploy, and you can
actually, like, you don't have to go between different types
of models or notebooks to serve your users who need both two
in ones and notebooks.
Jamison Cush: So just practically speaking with that AI
feature, I'm thinking Windows has that ability where I can
set my battery settings for performance. And so this would
be automated, essentially.
Dave Ruth: Yeah, that's right. And what we've done is we
built a lot of built technology on top of that, and what's
going to allow you to do is actually what it will do is
recognize some of the ways that you work so as you go
through your standard workday, it'll know okay, at this
point in time, at this point in time it knows that you know
if you're using this but this, these types of applications,
it'll know how to manage your battery. It knows that you
typically plug in at night. It knows that you know, at
during this portion of your day, you typically have heavy
usage. So it tries to apply key learnings as you go through
your day and how you manage your battery and what kind of
applications you're using.
Jamison Cush: And that could also could that assist IT with
maintenance and updates and then management?
Dave Ruth: Oh, for sure. And that's another another part of
that we're using it with. Part of our pro support offering
is trying to recognize when problems are going to occur
before they occur. So it's actually knowing what's happening
in your system and recognizing potential issues before that,
which really helps centralized IT manage systems that are
deployed in the field.
Jamison Cush: Can you give us just a quick rundown a tour of
the product, some of the standout specs?
Dave Ruth: Sure, you bet. So this is a 15.0 inch screen, and
it's it's a high-end IPS type screen that has both touch and
non touch availability. One of the really interesting
features we have here is top firing speakers. So what we're
going to offer is a speaker phone type experience within a
PC. So we basically took the insides of it to build a kind
of Jabra type system, put it in the notebook. And we also
have Windows I've mentioned before, that's kind of AI type
application within the speaker experience. So it will know
you can toggle between if you know you're in a loud
environment, kind of like where we are today, or if you're
in a soft kind of quiet room, or if you're in a conference
call situation. It will recognize where you are and actually
manage these both the microphone and the speaker experience
within that, so that's a really then so these top firing
speaker here produced by far the highest quality speaker
experience that we've that we've offered.
Jamison Cush: And this is also I think one of the first
laptops to support 5g.
Dave Ruth: That's right, we will have when 5g ready, and so
we'll be offering 5g when the carriers are ready probably
around this time, probably around the summertime. It depends
on the region. It depends on the carrier available. These
are but it's definitely meant for, definitely built for 5g
support. One of the interesting things we did is we put all
of our antennas including 5g antennas here in the base
rather than the top. And what that allows you to do is keep
these bezels super thin. And so your 5g antenna will
actually be kind of around that little speaker, which again
gives you better throughput and allows for a better design
of the system.