Dell Latitude E4300 Review
Dell is unleashed new laptop named Latitude E4300. Latitude E4300 is offering excellent battery life, robust performance, greater endurance and easy portability with lighter chassis. It inherits most of the features and design from its predecessors. You need to spend more to get better battery life and performance. Apart from these, it also features good connectivity, multimedia capabilities and easier synchronization.
Design
The E4300 is very stylish, good looking, attractive and very well designed laptop. Its chassis is made from polycarbonate and aluminum. The E4300 is available in Black, Blue and Red models. It measures 1 inch thick at thinnest and 1.3inch thick at thickest points. The E4300 weighs 5.2pounds with slice attached and 3.8 without it. The E4300 is pretty solid and gives good sturdy grip in the hand. The E4300 comes with backlit keyboard, which enables comfortable typing. As usual, it also features both a trackpad and a nipple mouse.Trackpad in Dell laptops is really interesting as they many different options like circular scrolling. The trackpad’s functionality can be controlled from a central interface.
The E4300 has 13.3inch display, which offers good resolution of 1,280×800 pixels and comes with a matte finish. Ambient sensor has been provided at the bottom which helps in saving battery life. You can customize it through keyboard shortcut. A webcam is mounted on the top of the laptop. A fingerprint reader is placed on the far right, so that it doesn’t interrupts during typing. It doesn’t have external speakers; you need to satisfy with small internal speakers only.
Features
The E4300 features graphical BIOS, which appeals to be Linux powered. It offers “Latitude On”, which is accessed by a shortcut key provided on keyboard next to the top right-hand side. This feature allows you to access quickly the Microsoft outlook’s contacts, email and calendar. It has connective features like optional Bluetooth Standard 2.1, Gigabit Ethernet port, Infrared pot,
Port options on E4300 are a mixed bag; there are fewer ports compared to the E6500. It doesn’t have Display port. It offers only one USB, which could be bigger pain. Dell offers port called dual eSATA/USB to fill this deficiency, enables you to connect external devices like internal SATA II device. This facilitates faster speed, reduces the time to spend in transferring files and it lets you to run the application on external device quiet quickly. It also includes a standard 3.5mm audio jack and a FireWire (IEEE 1394) port. A MicroSD card reader is present on the front of the laptop. On the left hand side there is a SC card slot and a contactless SC reader is provided next to the mouse pad.
The Latitude is powered by Intel’s Centrino 2, which offer you wireless N standard, better performance, good power management and Graphic abilities. It have configuration of Intel Core 2 Duo SP9400 at 2.5GHz (a grunty 45nm Penryn generation CPU), and 2GB of 1066MHz DDR3 RAM. This enables it to deliver good performance. The concern is it dissipates lot of heat, you will feel uncomfortable heat on your lap if you work more. It will eject very hot air on the left side onto your hands, if you use an external mouse.
The E4300 comes with three different batteries, a battery having 6 cell at back, a standard battery having 4-cell, an additional 6-cell “battery slice” which adds little thickness to the bottom of the laptop. You can combine these batteries to get more battery life. It offers approximately massive 400 minutes of battery life. The E4300 comes with just 160GB of hard disk. But you can upgrade it to the maximum of 250GB 7200RPM SATA for an additional cost. It comes preloaded with Windows Vista operating system, Google Desktop and complementary Roxio DVD burning software. It has good graphic capabilities. It comes with Intel’s GS45 chipset graphics card, which is part of the Centrino 2 platform. You can play games and run software with no hassle.
Final word
The E4300 is one laptop among the biggest Latitude family. It is nicely designed, pretty attractive, light weighted laptop. It has very good battery life of whopping 400 minutes. It is highly portable and fully featured. You can transfer files with good speed using dual eSATA/USB port. The Latitude family is pricy, it’s also flashy. It comes at a base price of $1300 or Rs 60000, and it includes a basic three year, next business day, on site warranty.
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