Dell Latitude D430

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Reviews for theDell Latitude D430

Dell Latitude D430 User Review
Source: Notebookreview.com
Overall, I would have to say that the Dell D430 has plenty of positive aspects to the notebook, but there are also a few flaws evident as well. Most laptops are not going to be perfect, and it is simply a matter of user preferences that determine what features of the notebook you love, and what flaws you cannot live with at all. As an ultraportable machine though, the Dell D430 strikes a great balance between features, portability, and price. The amount of power inside of the laptop, even though it is a meager amount, is more than enough power to run 95% of your daily/average computing tasks. And for those who need more power, there are dual-core options available. Sure, the laptop admittedly has flaws like the horrid speaker and the slightly-below-average screen, but the D430 has too many good things going for it to turn it away as a potential system. But notebooks in this category are largely evaluated on portability, longevity, and build quality. The Dell Latitude D430 definitely managed to excel in all three categories. This laptop is the best built I think I've ever owned, the battery life is respectable given the notebook's size, and the notebook's size itself is a huge boon to portability.
Preis/Leistung gut, Verarbeitung gut, Display mäßig, Leistung gut, Mobilität gut
User Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/07/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 80% display: 60% mobility: 80% workmanship: 80%

83% Dell Latitude D430
Source: PC Pro
Dell's Latitude D430 is the successor to the company's excellent Latitude D420, which has been sitting proudly atop the A List since issue 144 (92149). There isn't much change to see on the outside, as the D430 looks exactly like its predecessor; in many ways, that's a good thing since this remains a high-quality chassis, but it does result in a few compromises. Chief among these is the lack of an optical drive. Considering the D430 weighs 1.5kg, and Sony manages to pack an optical drive into the 1.13kg VAIO VGN-G11XN (web ID: 107284), this is disappointing. Instead, there's a MediaBase (included in the price here; use E-Value code: MAG-430PCP) that clips to the bottom of the notebook and gives you a DVD-RW drive, DVI and VGA outputs, and acts as a port replicator. You can carry the notebook around with the MediaBase attached, but it increases the weight to 2.1kg.
5 von 6, Mobilität gut
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/07/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% mobility: 80%

Foreign Reviews

85% Test Dell Latitude D430 Subnotebook
Source: Notebookcheck
online available, Long, Date: 02/10/2008
Rating: Total score: 85% performance: 58% display: 85% mobility: 89% workmanship: 87% ergonomy: 83% emissions: 79%

84% Dell Latitude D430
Source: PC Welt - 11/07
, Very Short, Date: 10/22/2007
Rating: Total score: 84% display: 80% mobility: 80% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 50%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).

Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).

The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.

U7600:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

12.1": This is the most common display format for subnotebooks and an average size for subnotebooks.
The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs less power, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that reading of texts is very exhausting vor the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

1.488 kg: This sub-notebook weighs less than the average of all notebooks and represents a medium class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 11 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

Dell: Dell is one of the biggest international manufacturers according market shares and the number of notebook models, which are reviewed in German and English speaking countries. Some of these reviewed laptops achieve top positions according total rating and price/value relation.

84%: This rating is to be considered as average, because the amount of notebooks with better ratings is about equal like the amount with worse ratings.

>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.