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January 7th, 2011 02:00

Trying to get a historical timeline of Dell business laptops

For a software project we need to test on a wide selection of typical business-grade laptops (specifically with integrated graphics) which were common within the last X years. But I can't find this anywhere. For instance I don't know which Latitude models were for which year, and so on. This is making it very difficult to write a list of target test machines, or the range on hardware spec (CPU & graphics) we expect to encounter.

Can anyone help? Do Dell people read these forums - I tried to contact support but it demanded a service tag and I don't have any of those anywhere I can access them right now.

Similar information for other manufacturers is needed too, if there are any sites which record all this stuff? Wikipedia doesn't have a good completeness on dates unfortunately.

 

edit: I suppose another way to phrase this, if the data doesn't exist in the form I want, is:

"In each year 2005-2010, what are the typical low/mid-range business laptop/desktop models people would be buying" - this goes for HP, IMB/Lenovo, etc too if anyone has that information... maybe someone who works as an IT administrator might be able to pull up what your company was buying in each year?

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January 7th, 2011 03:00

C-series, late 90s-2003

D-series, 2004-2009

E-series, 2009-present

 

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January 7th, 2011 03:00

In one place, no.  For each model, there are detailed service manuals and specifications on support.dell.com.

You can also look at what CPUs Intel and AMD released in each time interval.

 

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January 7th, 2011 03:00

Ah, I thought each series ran forever with different numbers. Useful - although 2004-09 is a pretty long time!

Do you know where I might get such information on other Dell business PCs (laptop or desktop)?

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