Dell Latitude E6400 Review

The Dell Latitude E6400

The Pros:

• Good bang for your buck if buy used (my purchase price: $300 on Ebay)
• Nice optional features – backlit keyboard, webcam, Bluetooth
• Nice battery life 
• Runs Windows 7 great

The Cons:

• A bit on the heavy side for my liking
• The brush black lid is prone to scratches
• No hdmi output

This is my review of the Dell Latitude E6400 model laptop.  This business grade laptop is nothing fancy on the outside but is a great performer for the business man or the individual owner.  Mine is stocked with the Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 @ 2.53 GHz which is more than enough power for any computing that I do.  Which the option for 8 gig of ram what more do you need?  There are a few features that I would love to have like an hdmi output and it to be a bit lighter in weight but I’ll spend the additional $300 on something else to make up for it.

My company has over 20 of this particular model and I own one personally.  I’ve had one issue in a little over two years with this model.  After reading a few forums I found the issue to be the CPU overheating causing the laptop to freeze.  When turned on immediately following this, the laptop wouldn’t recognize the hard drive.  After reading further, I discovered that the problem was solved by removing the heat sink and reattaching it to the CPU.  Bam, problem solved.

The Bottom line: This laptop is a good buy.  Here’s why.  You can pick one of these up for around $275 fully loaded from Ebay if you don’t mind having a little scratched up lid(replaceable for $14 on Ebay) and no comfort of a warranty.