Today we are pleased to announce that we have just taken delivery of our new Dell Latitude E5400. And of course we have already tested and prepared our own Dell Latitude E5400 review. At first glance, this laptop looks great, with sleek, slim lines. Its modern and interesting design will clearly appeal to most users looking for a sleek and stylish laptop. It’s also a great gift if the opportunity arises. However, we are aware that most of our readers are less interested in your good looks and more in your capabilities. That is why we focus more on this in our Dell Latitude E5400 review.
We started testing our new acquisition right away, and what better place to start than the central processing unit (also known as the CPU)? It is the most important component in any laptop and should be capable enough to give users good performance. We were very happy to find an Intel Core2 Duo P8400 processor running at a speed of 2.26GHz and on a large 3MB L3 cache. Its 1066 MHz high front side bus (also commonly called FSB) is good enough to power this central processing unit through our most resource-hungry tests. In our Dell Latitude E5400 review, we give this laptop 10 points out of 10 here.
Although we expected more from its memory, we found that the E5400’s 2 GB of DDR2 memory running at 800 MHz is good enough to pass our tests without any major problems. Since our Dell Latitude E5400 review is objective, we can’t give it more than 8 points here. Next, we were relatively happy with the graphics processing unit (aka GPU). The Intel GMA 4500 M HD managed to render crisp, clear graphics on the nice 14.1-inch widescreen display. Although it wasn’t bright enough for our tests, the screen managed to impress us with its XWGA technology and a good resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels. We give the Dell Latitude E5400 9 points out of 10 for this.
The hard drive, while not big enough to hold the large media files found today, impressed us with its high speed of 7,200 rotations per minute (rpm). If it weren’t for the 160 GB size, the hard drive would have received 10 out of 10 points. However, because of this, we cannot give it more than 9 points in our Dell Latitude E5400 review.