Hybrid power (from nvidia) doesn't work with intel integrated video chips, it ONLY works on the latest boards with nvidia integrated chips and with 9800GTX or newer video cards.

That said it works well, saving power that would otherwise be wasted as merely heat.

The other reason to use an ARM chip in these, while your running the integrated linux on the ARM the C2D could be booting windows, but I doubt Dell would be that smart about it.

I'm sure the ARM sucks up a lot less power than the C2D. It's along the same idea as nVidia's hybrid graphics.

Boot off the integrated Intel GPU if you're just doing work... switch to the GeForce mobile chip to play games.

duh, people

So Dell just solved a problem that didnt exist. I have to press a button to undock my Dell laptop im given for work. oooh aww Maybee im synical but I just dont get the point.

Anyone with half a brain that is going to spend $2,000 on a laptop would go for the fastest SSD and boot speeds will be very fast for Win XP or Win 7. Anyone stupid enough to buy this laptop for the looks most certainly wont use the ARM to boot into.

When did making computers cool surpass making them better?

Having ARM chips in laptops is really a failure of Intel's software marketing machine. Glenn is right - no reason main Intel proc couldn't quickly boot into an OS (slow boot times are really Microsoft's fault), but apparently the software to make this work is more mature on Arm. The concern for Intel is that this 'foot in the door' for Arm will result in Arm going from secondary to only CPU (at least for lower-end devices that don't need to run Windows).

With the radiation this charger will put out, you'll have a few growing out the side of your head in no time.

Any new Asus boards come with Express Gate which will do exactly the same thing, give you instant access to web, email, picture editing, etc. Obviously the drawback to this is it doesn't support SATA yet so you have to boot from a USB Drive. Booting from my 16GB OCZ Dual-Channel Rally takes about 10 seconds. That sounds fast, but considering that if you let the mobo finish loading the RAID controller in POST Windows 7 boots in 6 seconds off my Kingston SSD. Either way it boots fast and I don't need an ARM.