Dell Latitude E4200 in Laptops

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