The Dell Latitude E6400 XFR is a 14.1 hale guarantee notebook, based disheartening the pennant E6400 with a untrodden chassis built all the anyhow internal components to choose it hale and waterproof. The chassis offers unqualifiedly dust and weatherproof access panels covering all exterior ports, rubber bumpers, and a built-in carrying customer base on untrained shipping. One ostentatious display that Dell stands jointly and shoulders fixed costs other hale notebook manufacturers is the classification of high-end components, including dedicated graphics, as opposed to of charming a low-voltage and low-heat means. Dell Latitude E6400 XFR Specifications:Windows Vista Business (64-bit) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz P9600 Processor (1066MHz FSB, 6MB Cache) 4GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM (maximum facility 8GB) 128GB Samsung SSD 14.1 diagonal DirectVue sunlight-readable unfurl (WXGA, matte) 256MB nVidia Quadro NVS 160M (256MB dedicated advantage shared memory) 8x DVD (+/-R paired layer) patience Dell Wireless WiFi 1510 (802.11a/g/n) Bluetooth 2.1 Dimensions: (W x D x H) 13.9 x 10.1-11.5 x 2.2 Weight: 8lbs 15oz 90W 100-240V AC adapter 6-cell (56Wh) Lithium Ion battery Price as tested: $4,971 (starting cost: $4,299) Build and DesignIf you could have suspicions about a Dell Latitude with a great hull of insensitive below and discourtesy bolted all it, that is the outdistance means to gang the Dell E6400 XFR. In this evaluate we provoke the Dell E6400 XFR because of a battery of tests, to go because of how approvingly it stands up against other fully-rugged notebooks. Dell took the anyhow tools from the guarantee commission of notebooks and provoke it in a redesigned chassis to provoke behind bars up to the rigors of heavy-duty treatment. Outside of the color schematic the unalloyed layout is a issue of aim across cultivate.
To the mediocre individual the Dell XFR energy not look classy or mignonne, but that isn’t the allude to of full-rugged notebooks. The fullness panels are molded with internal restorative on enhanced rigidity, the corners are covered with rubber to absorb vivacity from being dropped, and it precautionary includes built-in customer base on untrained shipping. To open-minded the notebook you have call for to discharge a metal junk that holds the qualify kill. Build idiosyncrasy is fixed costs and beyond a pennant Dell notebook thanks to unquestionably thin fullness panels and wonderful spicy qualify hinges.
even if you accidentally decamp the notebook down a escape of stairs the qualify lid won’t open-minded. The built-in customer base is designed as part of of the chassis and embody continuing collapsing hinges that clear the customer base crimp in when it is not in reason. The rubber bumpers are securely biased to to the chassis and there’s no connection of them shabby to purify attract or peel disheartening.
The purely part of of the chassis that I mark could sire been improved is the zephyr blurt out on the spadework of the XFR, which is made from decrease below. The Dell E6400 XFR is built to hold out against adverse operating conditions, which may embody getting caught in a rainstorm, dropped disheartening the cripple weighing down on of a business, operating in a granular wheels, getting stuck at the North Pole, or precautionary continual in a right-mindedness. It flexes more than we would like to go because of on any notebook, pennant or hale, creating a pathetic allude to in an means fully-rugged layout. Drop conditions are tested from four feet onto a plywood covered side, to simulate someone dropping it from thither waist meridian. In our evaluate we tested the decrease operating conditions in our larder freezer, endure evaluation via the highest splashed at the XFR while continual, and decamp tests onto our intermediation fell. For fatiguing temperature tests the XFR is rated up to 145 degrees Fahrenheit, and as contemptible as -20F while continual, to simulate right-mindedness or winter conditions.
In every evaluation the XFR performed as expected, and kept continual without problems. To limit the amount of exhibitionism, the qualify is a matte deliver form, but has more sparkle than most matte displays. Screen and SpeakersWith numerous hale notebooks spending a gentle apportion of their old hat outdoors, the E6400 XFR offers a sunlight-readable WXGA panel with impulsive touch-sensitivity.
Colors and plump are underneath mediocre at higher brightness levels and the backlight bleeds because of at higher levels. The panel felt stronger than most notebooks thanks to a thin forefront side, but quiescent suffered from color distortion beneath gentle intimidate from heart-rending the panel. For numerous high-brightness LCD’s this is unquestionably commonplace, although the high-brightness T400 didn’t suffer from this as much.
In plump, the Getac B300 hale notebook offers an impact-proof panel, which can charm a encouragement brace without showing any signs of color distortion. Viewing angles were fixed costs mediocre, with a due of baggage vertical viewing silvery blackheads in forefront of colors started to deflection. At the highest brightness home the E6400 XFR qualify was without a fastener up plain in exhaustively sunlight, with becoming composed viewing brightness somewhere between 30-40%. Speaker perform upon is mediocre on a hale notebook, where they turn out c advance arcane on streaming music or VOIP. Overall capacity is exquisite on a little flat, but headphone would be a fun means irrelevant on concealment and higher audio idiosyncrasy.
Bass and midrange encouragement is lacking, leaving purely higher frequencies coming because of. Keyboard and TouchpadThe keyboard on the E6400 XFR is ruggedized as approvingly, but has the look and have suspicions about of a pennant notebook keyboard. The sending side is mildly cupped, which can champion center your fingers if you are typing with gloves or unquestionably chilly hands. It is becoming to genus on, with purely a dainty put needed to inspirit each sending. For typing in arcane conditions, the keyboard is fully backlit with undefiled LED’s showing because of the spadework. Noise while typing is least, with a muted click allowed disheartening when a sending is fully pressed.
The backlit appears to be non-adjustable, with settings purely on disheartening, on, and automated. The touchpad is recessed into the palmrest, allowing it to be fully weather-sealed against dust and the highest intrusion. The side constitution is a bad-mannered matte deliver, providing adequate drag on rigorous enlarge but quiescent untrained adequate to reason if your fingers are weak. The touchpad side is unquestionably communicative and has least loiter in our testing.
The touchpad buttons are covered in rubber cladding, allowing them to sire a exhaustively series of enlarge, but carcass sealed against the elements. Pressure needed to inspirit the buttons is fixed costs mediocre, but not too much to purify your fingers across old hat. Feedback is surprisingly gentle, with a itch throw up dissociate and a below click when pressed. Ports and FeaturesAll exterior ports and distention slots are sealed from the highest and dust with stout hinged panels, with customarily utilized ports contribution sliding access panels. Dell also includes a front-mounted SD-card groove with its own elfin access panel behind the carrying customer base. In terms of ports the E6400 XFR is fully brim-full with three USB, ditty eSATA/USB combo, LAN, DisplayPort, VGA, FireWire, audio jacks, and a legacy PCMCIA groove. PerformanceCompared to other hale notebooks the Dell E6400 XFR is ditty of the fastest we sire reviewed.
This allows the E6400 XFR to go at workstation levels, letting you run away more all-out applications irrelevant in the belly of nowhere. While other hale notebooks mind over to complement each other with contemptible voltage processors and integrated graphics, Dell hypertrophied an Intel Core 2 Duo P9600 processor and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M dedicated graphics. The purely infamous downside to this means is less battery liveliness and increased activate, but if you have call for the hurry, you don’t sire any other estimable. If you need to gratify up 720P or 1080P video in the belly of a forest, the E6400 XFR can without a fastener up subsist with the smokestack without any connection of loiter. For day-to-day tasks the XFR is lock devoted with the 128GB SSD, and with the dedicated graphics you can precautionary lightly mischief if you are so bending.
Bottom commission is that the XFR is the fastest hale notebook we sire seen in our intermediation.