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Dell Latitude E4200 review

Verdict

A striking laptop that's also incredibly portable. But the screen is a big disappointment.

Review Date: 22 Dec 2008

Reviewed By: Tim Danton

Price when reviewed: £1,109 (£1,275 inc VAT)

Overall Rating

Latitude E4200

Full working day

The light-use test is the absolute longest you can expect the battery to last with careful power management.

Latitude E4200

Full working day

The intensive-use score is the battery life during very demanding, CPU and hard disk-intensive operations with power management turned off.

Latitude E4200

0.73

3.2GHz Pentium D PC

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Latitude E4200

Fail

Smoothly playable

Our 3D gaming benchmarks test gaming performance in Crysis, which remains one of the most challenging games available. Setting is 1,024 x 768 at low detail.

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From around the web

Just bought one of these for work, and am pretty impressed with it. The build quality is excellent, and the SSD makes it fast and responsive - the weak point in its predecessors, the otherwise-excellent D420/430 was that they had 1.8" 4200 RPM hard drives, and the slow disk access was noticeable.

My only major criticism is that the media base available for the 420/430 has not been reproduced, and although a media base is available it only has a DVD drive and two USB ports whereas the earlier model reproduced all ports and was a proper docking station. A fairly minor irritiation, but I can't really see why Dell have done this. The only other option was a full docking station and external DVD drive, but this isn't as convenient as a media base.

By davidbryant4 on 15 Aug 2009

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