Design and Build
Dell reckons That Will business-types prefer this format too though. This provides for an industrial and muscular look, quite the Opposite of the light-grey and white design of the Dell Inspiring line of notebooks. The industrial looking Aesthetics are true to the actual build of the notebook. This results in strong overall physical protection of the notebook, worry-free of case cracks appearing or problems with excessive flexing. The D620 hinges also have a new barrel design to withstand vibration better than past Latitude notebooks. You can also get Shock Resistant hard drives in 60GB and 80GB capacities further that offer physical protection to the data.
Processor and Performance
I've had the opportunity to use Several Core Duo based notebooks at this point, and I continue to be impressed with the performance. The technology used is the hard drive is SATA and you can configure up to a 100GB hard drive storage size. Unlike many consumer notebooks where you have a bunch of junk software installed Such as AOL, EarthLink and trial versions of every software application under the sun, the Latitude D620 contains the bare basics and very little software outside of Dell security application and A Few management tools.
Keyboard and Touchpad
Depending on your typing style you may or may not like this, very fast growing niche types, light touch to like Dell keyboards though.
The dual mouse buttons have a nice feel and positioned so That if you use the pointing stick you would use the uppermost buttons and if you use the touchpad you would use the lowermost buttons.
Screen
as Mentioned before, Dell is adopting the widescreen format with the thinking that it allows business users to more easily display side-by-side document windows. The D620 has a built-in ambient light sensor built-in That Will control the screen brightness on battery Pls. When on power the screen automatically Will Become Brighter. As far as screen quality, the brightness is decent, but certainly not the best on the market and nowhere near as vivid as some of the high-end screens for consumer notebooks.
Wireless Communications
My review unit D620 CAME configured with the Dell Wireless 5700 EVDO modem. I love the fact That there's no ugly side antenna or extra humps on the notebook where the antenna sticks out as just about every other WWAN equipped notebook uses (Such as the ThinkPad T60 or Sony VAIO TX). Speaking of finding wireless hotspots, Dell has included a unique feature called "Wife Catcher" located on the left side of the notebook. This Wife Catcher works whether the notebook is on, off or in standby mode.
I imagine with the NVIDIA graphics card option this notebook may get a bit warmer, but with the configuration I have uses an Intel integrated graphics that this is not the case.
Battery
the D620 can be configured with a 4-cell, 6-cell or 9-cell battery. Certainly there are thin-and-lights with better and I prefer to see 3 hours or a little more for a thin-and-light travel notebook. If you were the resource persons to upgrade to the 9-cell certainly you would exceed 3 hours, but at the cost of extra weight and Increased notebook size.
One thing I really like about this Dell battery is the Express Charge feature. The D620 also has a nice 5 light LED display to show you how much battery charge is left without having to boot the notebook. Push the battery icon on the battery and it will from light up with each light representing 20% charge.
The widescreen approach is interesting for a business notebook; I think it makes sense and Probably Will be well received.
Quick Specs of D620 as Reviewed:
- Intel Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz
- 1GB 533MHz DDR2 RAM (2 x 512MB config)
- 80GB 5400RPM HD
- 14.1-inch WXGA screen
- Integrated graphics (Intel Media Accelerator 950)
- 24X CDRW / DVD Combo
- Windows XP Pro
- Dell Wireless 1490 802.11 a/g and built-in Bluetooth
- Processor: Intel Core Solo & Duo processors 667MHz Front Side Bus & (2M L2 Cache)
- Audio: High Definition Audio codec 2.0W (4 ohms), integrated omni-directional microphone
- Wireless LAN Intel Pro/Wireless 3945 WiFi 802.11 a/b/g, Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g, Dell Wireless 1490 802.11a/g
- Wireless WAN (cellular broadband) choices:
o Dell Wireless 5505 Mobile Broadband 3G HSDPA (Vodafone UK, France, Germany)
o Dell Wireless 5500 Mobile Broadband 3G HSDPA ( Cingular US)
o Dell Wireless 5700 Mobile Broadband CDMA EVDO ( Verizon WirelessUS) - Security Hardware: Integrated Smart Card reader, TPM 1.2 Security chip, Optional UPEK fingerprint reader
- Dell Wireless350 BlueTooth internal wireless card (optional)
- Docking and Port Replicators: D/Port, D/Dock, D/View Notebook Stand, D/Monitor Stand
- Chipset: Choice of Intel 945GM or Intel 945chipset PM chipset
- Memory: Supports 256 MB to 4056 MB of 667-533MHz DDR2 SDRAM shared
- Displays: 14.1"WXGA (1280 x 800 resolution) 14.1"WXGA+ (1440 X 900 resolution)
- Graphics Chip: Choice of Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (Up to 224MB shared) or 256 MB NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M with TurboCache
- Hard Disk Drive: 40, 60, 80 & 100GB primary; 80 GB secondary
- Modular Media Bay: 24X CD-ROM, 8X DVD-ROM, 24X CDRW/DVD, 8X DVD+/-RW, Floppy Disk Drive, Secondary 6-cell/56 WHr "Smart"Li-Polymer battery, 2nd80GB hard drive, or TravelLite module
- Modem: Internal 56K V.92 modem
- Networking: Internal 10/100/1000 network interface adaptor
- Ports: Serial, docking connector, 4 USB, VGA, 1 PC card slot type I/II,headphone/speaker out, infrared port, RJ-11, RJ-45, AC power
- Battery
o Primary 4-cell/35 WHr "Smart"Li-Ion battery featuring ExpressCharge
o Primary 6-cell/56 WHr "Smart"Li-Ion battery featuring ExpressCharge
o Primary 9-cell/85 WHr "Smart"Li-Ion battery
o Secondary 6-cell/56 WHr "Smart"Li-Polymer battery featuring ExpressCharge - Operating Systems: Microsoft
Windows XP Professional SP2, Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 - Dimensions HxWxD (32mm/1.26"x 337/13.27"x 238mm/9.37")
- Weight: Starting at 5.00lbs/2.27kg with 6-cell battery and CD-ROM (depends on configuration and manufacturing variability) --preliminary weight
- Service & Support: 3-year Limited Warranty* with Next Business Day On-Site Service
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