Dell Latitude D820

I left my old company a couple of months ago and took up my new position with my current company who very kindly issued me with a brand new Dell Latitude D820 laptop. I've had an opportunity to put it through its paces for the last 8 weeks and this review will cover my experiences to date. In terms of specification this laptop is much more powerful than my old one. For starters it has a dual core processor. For those of you not familiar with dual core, this means that the main processor actually consists of 2 processors within a single chip. Each processor or 'core' can be used to perform a ... more

I got this laptop as a present some couple of months ago so did not spend any on it. Well to compare to my previous laptop, they are of the same range but with slight difference. The slight difference is that in my old laptop, it is not as fast as this recent one. I now have two laptops and one must go but yet to decide on the one. It has a dual core processor and this means that the main processor consists of two processor within a single chip and this makes it possible for you to run two programs at a time comfortably. Probably, the dual core has an edge over the single one. It has 2GB ... more

from my expereince this notebook stands well in front of its rivals, not only in price but the excellent aftercare, and this applies to all Dell Latitude and other models. it is very robust copes with all that is required and could be a replacement for a desktop as it is powerful enough. From configureing your own requirements to receiving your laptop takes about three weeks depending on how and where bought. It comes well Packed with all the necessary, power adaptor, and media disks if required. For my part i chose the 1.7GHz core duo, with 1GB memory in one slot (1x1024), this allows for ... more