Dell Latitude E6400 Laptop

Actual Dell Latitude E6400 Laptop review from customer.
Solid system, truly portable
I've owned my Dell Latitude E6400 for about six months now, and have been working with it almost daily -- running a bunch of web development and graphics editing software. Have not had any issues with this laptop that would make me regret buying it, overall -- very positive experience. The performance is solid, I had Win XP Pro on it, and now upgraded to Win 7 Pro, and it runs like a charm! The battery life is very good (I have a 9-cell battery) -- the longeste I've kept the laptop running non-stop is 4 hours, and never needed to plug back in; the screen size (14") is a good balance for travel and working in comfort. The built-in wireless adapted sometimes needs to be restarted (there is a switch on the side -- turn it on and off to restart the wireless, not a big deal at all), but I only noticed that this needs to be done after the system comes out of hibernation. I bought this laptop with a deep discount (it was refurbished by Dell), had some reservations at the time of...

Finally backlit keyboard
This is pretty much configuartion that I got and performance is pretty good with this laptop.
Lighted keyaboard had an impact on decission when I decided to buy this laptop and it is really nice and usefull feature that I was looking some time for it.

Pros:
- Very stable, no reboots and doesn't get frozen even when moving/shaking it
- Good metal construction --> no flexing
- Good set of connection slots for perrifferrals
- Backlit keyboard
- Very bright screen but not the best color rendering
- e-SATA external connector
- Internal Intel wireless 5300 AGN WiFi card is excellent

Cons:
- LCD display is somewhat washed out although very bright
- It gets very hot even just browsing internet after relatively brief period. Poor ventilation.
- Somewhat heavy for its size
- Average battery life (little bit over 3hr of usage when just browsing internet via WiFi with standard battery)
- Proprietary HDMI...

Simply Splendid

Shipped w/i 3 days. 3-4 hour battery life depending on what you have running. Can dual boot operating systems (I have linux and windows 7). Can play low end games like minecraft/FATE/Half Life really well. Runs extremely fast as long as you don't overload it with too many processes.etc. Doesn't come with web cam. Ram, cpu, HDD are all upgradeable!!! Buy it you wont regret it!!!

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