Dell Latitude D630 Review

The Dell Latitude D630 laptop was first introduced in 2007. It has a 1.80 Intel core duo processor. A "duo" processor means that you take the processor speed and double it. It shipped with 512MB of RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. It originally sold for $1900 dollars, now you can find one much cheaper on eBay for about $500 dollars. It weighs 5.8 pounds with a battery which is a little heavy for a modern laptop. It has a 14.1 inch LCD display that is bright and clear and great for playing games or watching video on.

It shipped with Windows Vista on it and a big feature of this laptop is that it has a DVD burner. Most new laptops these days come with that option. It has almost become standard for laptops since 2006 to have a DVD burner included in the package. The Dell Latitude D630 also comes with a wireless card and a battery lasting almost 5 hours. The five hour battery life is yet another industry standard in todays laptop world.

The Dell Latitude D630 is more stylish with its gray and black exterior. It definitely wins points over the IBM Thinkpad series in terms of style, but the Thinkpad gets my vote for the better overall computer. Though the Dell Latitude D630 is still a very nice machine. A lot of consumers are wary of the Dell name, because of a host of problems with their computers years ago. Dell has come full circle as a company since then making better products then they used to.

One disappointment about the D630 is that it doesn't have a built-in web cam. Built-in web cams have also become the industry standard in laptops recently and a nice built-in web cam is really what the Dell Latitude D630 is missing, it also doesn't have a built-in microphone either. To not include a web cam on the D630 is a mind boggling business decision by Dell, as most users look for built in web cams so they can have video conferences on their laptops.

In conclusion, the Dell latitude D630 is a great laptop with a 1.80 Intel core duo processor, 512MB of RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. Its only real shortcoming is the absence of a web cam. Everything else about this laptop seems up to par but not much more. The D630 is also pretty heavy compared to its competitors and that is also another shortcoming for the D630.