So both the power plate *and* the AC adapter are optional (extra)? For 2K I think I'd like to have a way to charge the battery included, thank you very much.

Nice concept, though. I wonder how tender the contacts are on the bottom of the laptop.

This doesn't look like something a "Dell" customer is willing to fork out for. The charging pad seems ridiculous when traveling. Poor beleaguered Dell

Macs are more expensive than PCs...

The Latitude is Dell's second attempt to compete in the ultra-thin notebook space following the Adamo 13 and this time avoids directly competing against the MacBook Air, whose faster processor and lower price have kept it immune from direct competition.

The first pic...lol

I'm sure it comes with a wired charger - Dell wouldn't ship a notebook with no way to power it.

Actually this is a nice solution, provided the wireless display actually works well. As someone who travels with a MacBook back and forth to work every day, I'd like a solution like this. RIght now I connect 5 cables (power, ethernet, USB, display, audio). I could cut that down with wireless networking and USB audio, but it'd be nice to just put it down and not have to worry about connecting anything.

This doesn't look like something a "Dell" customer is willing to fork out for. The charging pad seems ridiculous when traveling. Poor beleaguered Dell

Um, the charging pad is not for the 'traveler traveling', it's for sitting on the desk where you use the laptop most often. Thus, when you go into the office, you don't have to reach around and plug in the power cord.

And it comes with a power adapter.

My Oral B electric toothbrush has had inductive charging for over a decade. So why not a notebook? It's a decent idea.

And I like the antiglare hardcoat screen-- I'm assuming the airbrushed artwork does reflect a no-reflection screen?

How efficient is the wireless charging?

How does it know when to stop supplying power (e.g. computer on, off, sleeping, hibernating)?

Is the elevated stand designed to be awkward so that I will use an external keyboard while it is charging so that my hands don't start to glow after an hour of use because my hands were being inductively charged?

I have to say as a MacBook Air owner, the idea of a "connector-less" (to avoid a misleading term like "wireless") dock is pretty cool. Having one AC adaptor at work and one at home, I've never said "whoa snapping this magnetic power cord into place is a real drag!" but I would prefer not to plug and unplug my headphones and USB devices (would rather leave them plugged into a dock).

Hopefully a little competition in this area will help push Apple in some good directions (and that doesn't include adding a superfluous touch-sensitive input area to the right of the screen).

Seems like basically they replaced the docking port on the laptop with a "touch" interface, meaning if the bottom of the laptop is touching the docking station it charges etc.

Thats pretty slick. I hope they offer a port replicator instead of the entire "C" docking station. I use a port replicator with my dell laptop currently and its great, just come home, set the laptop on the replicator and press down. It clicks into place and then when I fire it up, my dual screens and external mouse/keyboard are ready to control the laptop.

If I leave for work, I just press a button and the laptop pops off the replicator and I'm out of there.