Dell Latitude E6400 XFR 14.1inh Notebook
November 3, 2009 | Dell, Notebook | Comments OffAs the video review explains in part the XFR E6400 is a little different from most other ‘fully rugged’ notebooks. It does not use processor ultra low voltage, but rather to supply full power of Intel Core 2 Duo and therefore a level of job performance. Also, as its name implies, this system is based on the same platform as the laptop Latitude E6400 Business Standard. This means that the same BIOS, the basic equipment and identical same level of connectivity, so you can take a disk from a XFR E6400 and put in a E6400 (or vice versa) and would work . A bonus potentially useful since the hard drive is hot swappable, although the E6400 standard does not quite as convenient.
Since the XFR E6400 uses processors more powerful than people like the Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 is not passively cooled, as it is, either. Instead, he uses what Dell calls its QuadCool system thermal management, which uses a fan cooling system that is isolated from the rest of the system. It works pretty well, but the system does get pretty noisy when under heavy load – no surprise, really, since Dell also offers discrete graphics in the form of an nVidia Quadro NVS 160M with 256 MB of RAM. This is not included in the starting price, however, which brings you just the standard integrated Intel graphics.
Indeed, as is always the case with Dell, working exactly what you can or can not have is like a cryptic puzzle particularly irritating. Some options are available in one place but not another, and sharp fluctuations of prices, too. For example, if the purchase of a company as small or medium size in the starting price is £ 2699 exc. VAT, but you do not have access to all available options such as a touch screen and integrated HSDPA. For those you must be a buyer of large companies, but then the official starting price is £ 2932 – a somewhat theoretical since contracts for large orders will be negotiated individually, anyway! [via trustedreviews]
