Dell Laptop D820
Besides the basic version and famous Inspiron XPS, Dell sells the Latitude series for business, but also has private clients. The laptops of this series have special security mechanisms and a robust magnesium casing. It is a good laptop for a construction company. When taking this laptop, in which his apparent robustness. The central unit of the region except in the middle above the keyboard can really take a lot of pressure and is insensitive to impact forces. From time to time we may observe creaking, however, in all you can ignore these details. The case must be done in a kind of magnesium alloy, and the cover on the upper side is plastic. Coverage of the screen magnesium is also very robust and supports the resemblance to a small clamshell design, which on one hand improves flexural rigidity of the screen and the other the stability of the notebook closed. The design of the Dell Latitude D820 is not like the lines and shapes of the Inspiron series. one notable difference is that the design is rather Latitudes geometric and angular, but also because of the colors black and gloomy used. Despite good quality materials, the Latitude could not convince us hinges on its surfaces. The laptop is gray advantage of a brand rather unimpressive on this matter. The display is made only limited by two hinges relatively large, a light beam is possible here. To ensure a tightly closed state, the notebook comes with a central hook ramshorn, which can not completely avoid a vacillation. However, it is comfortable in use. Typical Dell, most of the interfaces are at the back. It helps guard open sides and avoid the spaghetti effect, this may limit the use of the mouse, even if all ports are used. The Latitude D820's keyboard Seems is clear and well structured. The keys are good size. The laptop, for example. a touch input, which extends more than two rows of function keys and adequate size. The cursor pad is slightly separated from the keys and so it is easier to use. Write with the keyboard is a joy. Besides a touch pad the D820 also comes with the trackpoint, which the little plastic cover ergonomic. A more circular with spikes less great would be better. The reviewed notebook comes with a matte screen standard 15-inch widescreen 1280x800. With this version, you can choose two other screens, a WSXGA + with a resolution of 1680x1050 and a 1920x1200 WUXGA screen. In choosing an appropriate notice, you should make a difference in font size and the overview. More details on this subject can be found in our article about desDPI - fine screens. The color diagram depicts a curve nearly ideal red and green color and the deviation from the usual blue color curve.Therefore, the colors seem warmer. The display can be used outdoors, because of its matte surface. However, in very bright environments, the content displayed seems to be darker, because of its moderate brightness, and contrast decreased. The stability of the vanishing point is, especially vertically, not really a strength of this laptop. For example, you can not only observe a loss, but also heavy color changes, if you look from top to bottom. Looking from bottom to top, the view was obscured a clear and a clear gray scale levels. Horizontally, the area of operation is more than adequate. The Dell Latitude D820 can be configured with a variety of Intel Core 2 Duo high performance. with a T2300E to T7600 1.6 GHz with 2.3 GHz are possible. The laptop reviewed was equipped with a T7200 CPU, which is the solution and Intel GMA 950 video rather passable solution for desktop applications. This equipment is besides desktop applications also proportionate to the Internet and Windows Vista. If you are going to run 3D applications, you should consider choosing a video card option available on NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M/120M, running a Geforce 7300/7400. You should not even think about playing current games, because you can only expect a limited graphics power for gaming video card of class 4. Some older games without requiring 3D graphics should still be possible. The notebook has been equipped with a hard drive 80 gigabytes at 5,400 revolutions per minute Fujitsu. The test has found values slightly on average transfer rates, but also a longer access time of 20.8ms. The Dell Latitude is reviewed in tranquility. In idle mode or while using simple desktop applications the fan runs steadily to its lowest level and the laptop emits a very quiet background noise. Not until we begin to push the machine, the sound of the laptop are still pretty decent with a maximum of 37.2 dB. Not only the measurement noise, also the surface temperature was always well. On the top side we have measured a maximum of 32.7 ° C on the lower side of 41.4 ° C. The speakers of the D820's are right and left of the keyboard. The sound is very clear and more or less well for playing music and background music while working. The latitude in review (Dell D820) has been equipped with a battery 85Wh (7600MAh), which provides an excellent battery runtime. For example, under the load you can work for almost two hours and a low demand up to a maximum of 5.5 hours. Therefore, nothing can get on the road with a laptop unplugged. ..