Dell Latitude E4200 review
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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
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Part Code | Latitude E4200 |
| Review Date | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Price ex VAT | £1,109 |
| Price inc VAT | £1,275 |
| Overall rating |
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| Warranty | |
|---|---|
| Warranty | 3 year(s) on-site |
| Physical specifications | |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 296 x 226 x 27mm (WDH) |
| Weight | 1.190kg |
| Processor and memory | |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo U9400 |
| RAM capacity | 2.00GB |
| Memory type | DDR3 |
| Screen and video | |
|---|---|
| Screen size | 12.1in |
| Resolution screen horizontal | 1,280 |
| Resolution screen vertical | 800 |
| Resolution | 1280 x 800 |
| Graphics chipset | Intel GMA 4500 |
| VGA (D-SUB) outputs | 1 |
| HDMI outputs | 0 |
| S-Video outputs | 0 |
| DVI-I outputs | 0 |
| DVI-D outputs | 0 |
| DisplayPort outputs | 0 |
| Drives | |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 64GB |
| Hard disk usable capacity | N/A |
| Spindle speed | N/A |
| Internal disk interface | N/A |
| Hard disk | N/A |
| Optical disc technology | None |
| Optical drive | N/A |
| Replacement battery price inc VAT | £0 |
| Networking | |
|---|---|
| Wired adapter speed | 1,000Mbits/sec |
| 802.11a support |
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| 802.11b support |
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| 802.11g support |
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| 802.11 draft-n support |
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| Integrated 3G adapter |
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| Other Features | |
|---|---|
| ExpressCard34 slots | 1 |
| ExpressCard54 slots | 0 |
| PC Card slots | 0 |
| USB ports (downstream) | 2 |
| FireWire ports | 1 |
| PS/2 mouse port |
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| 9-pin serial ports | 0 |
| Parallel ports | 0 |
| Optical S/PDIF audio output ports | 0 |
| Electrical S/PDIF audio ports | 0 |
| Pointing device type | Touchpad |
| Speaker location | Above keyboard |
| Integrated microphone? |
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| Integrated webcam? |
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| Camera megapixel rating | N/A |
| Fingerprint reader |
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| Operating system and software | |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows Vista Business |
| OS family | Windows Vista |
| Battery and performance tests | |
|---|---|
| Battery life, light use | 335 |
| Battery life, heavy use | 242 |
| Overall application benchmark score | 0.73 |
| Office application benchmark score | 0.77 |
| 2D graphics application benchmark score | 0.82 |
| Encoding application benchmark score | 0.62 |
| Multitasking application benchmark score | 0.71 |
| 3D performance (crysis) low settings | Fail |
| 3D performance setting | N/A |
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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.
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