According to the claims by Dell, the first laptop with an internal wireless inductive charger and a wireless docking is the Latitude Z and it uses two coils-one in the special charging stand and another in the laptop for generation of an electromagnetic field. This wireless charger may be received as relief for a set of people despising cords and power bricks but for the rest of people it’s an empty gesture and won’t be used by many people. It can also be speculated that the technology was not touched by Dell’s rivals for some good reasons.

For starters, the stand seems huge; from photos given by press, it appears to be a huge plate connected to a bigger stand, containing huge raised platform and an equally huge base surface making one need a nice desk as a support to this lavish set up. In other words you won’t like to take it along with you. Also the charger is not more effective or better than a standard plug of AC. Dell’s vice president belonging to business client engineering, Steve Belt, announced to the IDG news service that wireless charger precisely takes an equal amount of time to charge a laptop as with an AC connection.

For these simple privileges, you will be required to pay an extra 200 dollars on top of the Latitude’s base 2000 dollars price tag where with this money you can buy one or two power cords more and plant them in those places where you use your laptop most.

However, having said above, no one can knock Latitude Z completely as a whole. This notebook has few features that is less likely to be seen in other laptops. Among them is an instant-on feature enabling you to browse the web and check your mails during start-up. There is also a wireless optional docking station that allows you to connect to the USB drives and TV while moving with the laptop itself. Unlike charger, this docking station is worth spending $200, especially if someone plans to watch web video through his television.

It can be said that Dell may be the first maker in computer world to pair inductive laptop charger with the wireless docking, but even if it’s the last, nobody would be affected.