Dell Latitude D830 Notebook

Dell Latitude D830 Notebook

The Latitude series of laptops is part of Dell's business lines. As a company engineer, who are more focused on reliability, durability and subtlety (whereas most Inspirons oriented to consumer tout most powerful media focusing on aspects such as high-end discrete graphics solution, dedicated media keys, more attractive price points, etc.).

Other series in this line include the Precision series (high-powered mobile work aimed primarily at high-end graphics professionals, particularly those with the need for rendering 3D) and the recently released in economy class Vostro series, introduced to replace the now long - in-the-tooth business Inspirons. Latitude is squarely in the middle of both lines, providing a balance between price and high performance.

The Latitude comes in a wide variety of flavors, but for most people really the choice is between 14.1 "630 and 830 which is the largest, 15.4" model. This model comes at a table replacement, since their weight is not appropriate to charge around the city.

The setup was finished receive the following:

2.2GHz Core 2 Duo T7500, 800MHz FSB, 4MB L2 Cache
2GB DDR2 SDRAM-667
Sata HDD 120GB 5400
8X DVD ± RW dual-layer drive
15.4 "screen WUXGA
256MB Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M
Touchpad integrated UPEK Fingerprint Reader
Intel WLAN 4965 (802.11a/g/n)
From 9 Dell d800 battery cells
Dell Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
Windows Vista Ultimate with the media
4-Year Next-Business-Day parts and labor on-site Guarantee Response Gold
4-Year Guarantee Accidental Damage
I also opted for some accessories:

Logitech VX Revolution Cordless Mouse
Belkin protective travel
Extra 90W AC Adapter
Western Digital Passport 120GB Portable Hard Drive
Interlink Electronics Bluetooth remote control
My total cost came to about $ 2700, which includes shipping costs and taxes. This was a bit more than it was willing to spend, but I will go into more detail later.

Reasons purchase:

The reason they need Needed to buy a new laptop because it's my last Windows PC, Compaq Presario X1000, was in serious need of repair. Hinges and power button action is badly cracked, the hard drive was heating up and obscenely held a single battery charge longer than it took to hard boil an egg. I was, however, impressed by the high quality of the display, including high-resolution SXGA + and the computer's overall performance. I still had the MacBook Pro, but I was not willing to sacrifice performance and precious hard disk space running two operating systems and maintenance of project files and working for the two OS 'in the same tiny hard drive. I work in advertising and events, and my main use for Office 2007 Professional system would be especially Excel (to my cost estimates and budget control) project (for project management, especially the critical elements when running multiple promotions and events at the same time) and PowerPoint (presentation to customers). As I tend to assume other functions when necessary, my team had to be able to handle Adobe CS3 (to stage designs, advertising collateral and other items), Premiere (for audiovisual presentations)

I knew then that I would not settle for less than a 15.4 "widescreen laptop with at least WSXGA + or better resolution - who prefer to move up to WUXGA. The system also had to be sufficiently powerful to handle the load specific software he needed to do my job without buckling or slowing down. Finally, my experience with the X1000 of flimsy plastic parts led me to seek a solid and durable, if not rugged construction.

I was initially looking at three manufacturers:

Dell (in the main recommendation of my wife, whose experience with them was first class)
Lenovo (first-hand experience with IBM Thinkpads was a good overall experience, not to mention the high reputation in general enjoyed a crowd), and
HP (due to the overall aesthetics and excellent after-sale here in the Philippines.
On top of these three, I was also reviewing Asus latest laptops - in particular the G1. I was not too sold on the aspect of the current Toshiba, and certainly did not like the "cheap" feeling I had with Acers.

The soft drink arrived just in time for my purchase, actually. I was originally scheduled obtain Inspiron E1505 based on a recommendation from a friend who has been a user of Dell for a few years. The Being of the Philippines (where Dell is neither a brand nor prevalent with a real significant market share in retail), it is difficult for me to find and units to inspect personally. In general I would have no objections with a notebook order had never seen before, but I was concerned with the comments of E1505 are a little thicker on the side. Fortunately, I found a dealer, CoolToyz, about an hour and a half from my house that CTO various laptops and resell them at the store. When found their website, I decided to drop by the store to check the wide variety of laptops that were for sale. I honestly was not that impressed with the image and appearance of the E1505, since it was voluminous, felt a little flimsy (especially the cap) and white bumper really rubbed me the wrong way. I had not considered until I saw the Latitude D820, and finally I liked his appearance and much more than the Inspiron, despite its moderate, very business-and appearance. Plus felt like a tank (at least compared to 1505). With that experience, I decided the Dell laptop for me would be the Latitude series, to 15.4.

Another unit that was at the centre was the Lenovo ThinkPad Z61t. Now I loved the design of this machine - almost enough to make me switch to smaller screen size - but its relatively low resolution, the lack of discrete graphics and I was ridiculously small touchpad. That's when I read the mp variations and made me start taking seriously this series.

Finally, there was the HP Pavillions in 15.4 "and 17" models. Unfortunately, while I like the new image and styles HP entire line of notebooks, his popularity made me reconsider. What good is an elegant notebook (assuming you buy it for that) if everyone and their grade-school mathematics teacher's dog have? Besides the lack of something larger than WXGA + in most of its notebooks made me scratch them off my list altogether.

So I left only with the Z61 Thinkpads and latitude to choose from.

Where and how Purchased:

I talked with the official dealer and distributor Lenovo Thinkpads at home and discovered that, to my great dismay, my dear Z61 series (all of them, t, pym) had been discontinued. While I was saddened to lose the prospect of having my first Thinkpad (this is an elite class I wanted to join, hahaha) I was also encouraged by the fact that my choice simplified for me. Then I had originally thought of the D820 purchase at the store. But bang for my buck not joined, when a much better configuration could be had online for much less. Well, unless if I discount the fact that I had to pay taxes, shipping and handling ... and then with my cousin FedEx whole way from New York to me here, in Manila and laptop battery shop. It is not too smart, when taken into account taxes, intercontinental shipping, customs fees and, of course, the customs bribes. Ah, bribery and corruption.

Anyway, I was happy to know that my cousin would be coming here on vacation in July - which gave me about two months to make my mind and buy the thing, taking the construction and shipping times in mind.

And so began my obsessive quest to build my ideal workhorse. After fool around with Dell configurator online for about three weeks, I am glad to hear that the D830's would refresh to Santa Rosa - important for me as I wanted to improve battery life, and wanted to test for the future least three to four years. Even so, however, he remained outside to buy because there are still no options for discrete graphics. Finally, on June 15, the new Latitudes received nVidiaQuadros - in particular, the D830 has the NVS140m. I immediately picked up the phone and made an international telephone call to place my command. Since I already knew exactly what he wanted, the call took all of twenty minutes. The CSR gave me several updates without my question, as the hard disk (I had requested a 100GB), Bluetooth and the warranty card (I was asked 3-year business, he upgraded to 4 years NBD international and coverage for accidental injury). However, reached about $ 800 more than it was willing to spend, but by the value that was (taking into account the relatively high price of components and accessories here in the Philippines) that has been worth it. I, too, has dealt a savings in international shipping so that gave me a little more margin.

He also told him that I was concerned about the deadlines in the construction and shipping as my cousin was put out within two weeks. He said that trying to speed up my case, but could not promise anything. Surprisingly, the package arrived on Tuesday following accessories, and laptop own package arrived two days later. Wow! All in less than a week. That really blew me away.

Unfortunately, there was an error in the e-mail confirmation that I have received. CSR has added a mistake Kensington Notebook Lock accessories to my request, and omitted the Interlink Electronics Bluetooth ExpressCard remote. I will address these issues later, according to customer service.
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