Dell Latitude D4. Review pics, specsby Andrew Baxter, New York USADell Latitude D4. The Dell Latitude D4. It shares some similarities with the ultra light Latitude X1, such as having the same 1. With its optional 2. GHz Pentium M processor using the latest Intel Sonoma chipset, 5. MB of RAM upgradeable to 2. Dell-Inspiron-1440-Dual-core-320-4gb-Laptops-For-sale-at-Ikeja-Lagos.jpg' alt='Can I Install Windows 7 On Dell Inspiron 8600 Laptop' title='Can I Install Windows 7 On Dell Inspiron 8600 Laptop' />GB, a full size keyboard featuring dual navigation and nice overall design and build, the Latitude D4. Above view of Latitude D4. Latitude D4. 10 Specs as Received Intel Pentium M 7. GHz, 2. MB Cache, 5. MHz4. 0GB 5. 40. RPM Hard Drive. XGA LCD non glossy5. MB DDR2 4. 00. MHz SDRAMMicrosoft Windows XP Professional. Dual pointing device via touchpad and pointing stick, multiple mouse buttons. 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D4. 10 competes with Design and Build. First of all let me say this is hands down the best looking Dell laptop Ive used. I last used the Dell Latitude X1 and was quite impressed with the simple non flashy design. But I really dig a bit of a darker look to a laptop, and the Dell D4. It reminds me a bit of the Fujitsu Life. Book styling, which I like a lot. The dark finish and industrial looking fan vent also gives the D4. Ford Mustang of notebooks if you will. The silver latch on the screen adds a nice finishing touch and professional look. The build is sturdy, this notebook doesnt flex. The chassis uses a tri metal blend of aluminum, magnesium and steel while the case shell is constructed of a very rigid plastic on the body and keyboard area. The lid is constructed of magnesium alloy that offers great protection of the screen and a great look as well. The screen hinges are sturdy, you wont get any wobble on the screen unless youre on one heck of a bumpy plane rideor if youre like me and push the screen back and forward to test how much it wobbles, just to be picky. So the build is overall good, but then instead of using a nice flap over the PCMCIA slot Dell put a dummy piece of plastic in there as a dust protector when youre not using a card. This shouldnt be the case with a business notebook, thats a cheap finish and solution and it kind of ruins a perfect 1. The layout of this notebook is rather odd in a few ways. The battery is located at the front of the notebook, this is a first for me. Heres the good thing though, the battery doesnt  get very warm at all, and since it is located under the palm rest areas you wont get any warmth there. Thats right folks, no complaints of my right hand is getting sweaty because the palm rest is a 1. The back of the notebook is a different story, but Ill get that to later see heat and noise section. When you have the extended life battery in it sticks out at the front. My first reaction was to think thats really dumb, and to be honest it does look a little odd to have a lip at the front of your notebook sticking out. But now Im used to it I think its a great area for providing extra support for the wrists and resting them while typing. Another odd layout move is that the headphone jack is all the way at the back of the right hand side of the notebook. What a bad location, its hard to fumble and find and you have to stretch the headphone cord all that much farther, plus theres no color coding between the headphone and microphone jack so its hard to see which is which until you get used to it. Also, the number and size of air vents on this notebook is rather impressive, theres 5 total. Cakewalk Audio Fx 3 Serial Ports. On the Latitude X1 there are zero. But with a Pentium M 2. GHz processor and the cramped nature of internals in an ultraportable it does require this number of vents, so the D4. Ports and Input. The Dell D4. Archived from groups alt. You can get a kit that converts your laptop and your adapter to a different jack here httpwww. SmartPCFixer is a fully featured and easytouse system optimization suite. With it, you can clean windows registry, remove cache files, fix errors, defrag disk. The Dell Latitude D410 is a 12. It shares some similarities with the ultra light Latitude X1, such as having the same 12. Fire. Wire which is available in the X1, and we dont get any type of media card readerwhich is a real shame. We do get 3 USB 2. I like the fact theres a PCMCIA card slot for accessory expansion, something the Latitude X1 lacks. Lets just take a tour around this notebook to see everything thats available in terms of ports. Front side view larger imageFront side On the front we have the battery compartment and also the latch lock. Left side view larger imageLeft side  On the left we have from front to back, a large air vent, infrared sensor, another air vent, 1 USB 2. USB port is a DBay connector for an optional external optical drive, and finally a security cable slot. Back side view larger imageBack side  On the back side from left to right we have the ethernet port, modem port, 2 USB 2. AC adapter connector and then some more air vents. Right side view larger imageRight side On the right side we have from front to back the hard drive bay, smart card slot right above the hard drive, then PCMCIA slot for accessory expansion, and then the headphone and microphone jacks. Bottom side view larger imageBottom side On the bottom we can see the battery latch releaseslocks, battery charge gauge handy for seeing battery charge when computer is off, battery, hard drive, docking device connector more on that later, memory module cover and another air vent. Screen. The screen on the D4. XGA format LCD, no widescreen and no glossy finish. Its a very nice screen, some will no doubt be happy to find a portable notebook that hasnt gone widescreen a non widescreen ultraportable laptop is becoming an anomaly. The screen brightness is good and theres none of that sparkle effect weve seen some complain about on certain Dell LCDs. Screen brightness can be controlled using the Fn key in conjunction with the up or down arrow. Sound. The good news with the speaker on this notebook is that its on top of the notebook. On the Dell X1 and IBM X4. I recently reviewed, the speaker was found on the bottom of the laptop. Of course, since it is just one speaker you dont get stereo sound, youll need headphones or external speakers for that. The speaker is an 8 ohm, 1 W speaker and thereby neither produces great sound or volume. The headphone jack is on the back right side. Processor and Performance Benchmarks. The 2. 0. GHz Pentium M processor configured in this notebook doesnt just race past the 1. GHz ULV processor in the Dell Latitude X1, it laps it. This notebook is in truth probably overpowered for the use of Office and web type applications. So your next question might be, well thats great, so I can use this thing as a gaming notebook right  Hmm, well youre still strapped with an intregrated graphics solution in the form of the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator integrated graphics. If you have 5. MB or more, the graphics solution will borrow up to 1. MB of system memory, if youre under 5. MB then it will only borrow 6. MB.   So I recommend boosting memory up to 1. GB so it has plenty to share with graphics. Even then youre not going to be able to play Doom 3, but there are 3. D games and almost any game thats 2 years old will run on this system. As far as using everyday applications, this notebook effortlessly runs those and makes it easy to keep multiple applications open for switching between Im guilty as charged for having 2. D4. 10 doesnt mind this.