Dell Laptop has always been a great achiever in the field of business. Its latest release is the DELL LATITUDE E5420 range of laptops. This laptop has been solely designed for hardcore business professionals. It is one of the subtle looking laptops going around.

It has a dark grey anodized aluminum outside and magnesium based inside. It has been priced at $1590 (as recorded up to June 15, 2011) .However it has two worthwhile features which are its portability and video chat alongside excellent battery life.

Is The Performance Of The Laptop Up To The Mark?

This laptop offers top-notch performance. It has an integrated Intel Core i5-2520M with maximum capacity at 2.5GHZ, 4GHZ of DDR3 Ram. It also has a  64bit version of Windows 7 professional. Its test model reached a score of 123 on World Bench 6. The score is equivalent to the top rated all purpose laptops. It has a magnificent 9.5 hour battery life which is equal to any chart toppers. It is best suited especially for places where there is a scarcity of power outlets; this can be of great importance solely for its longevity.

Features

The E5420 has several other features which would be of importance to corporate IT buyers .It has a fine line of joystick and a touchpad. It also has a great sculpted keyboard; its touch light turns on as soon as we touch a key and goes dark in the period of non-usage in order to save battery life. Silvery hardware audio-control buttons is placed next to the keyboard and it allows a quick adjustment of volume or muting the sound.

It also has a welcome addition in the form of an external on-off hardware button for Wi-Fi.  Smart Card and SD Card slots are also available and to add to it a FireWire port, mainly to support legacy storage devices, is also present.But FireWire has fallen out of favor in the consumer market in the last few years.

The 14-inch widescreen LED-backlit display is bright and crisp, with an astounding high resolution in the range of 1600×900 pixels. It’s inside part also has great shock wave protection.

The laptop has a built-in microphone, but offers no option to plug in a separate headphone and microphone jacks; it only has a combined audio-microphone port.

The E5420 comes with a small 250GB, 7200-rpm hard drive and also has other options including larger and encrypted drives and smaller solid-state drives. It provides the usual three USB 2.0 ports, one of which is a combined USB SATA port.

The laptop also provides HDMI and VGA ports, gigabit Ethernet, and a DVD burner. Quite an amount of strength has been used to bend the base unit. The area where you can rest your hand and the base plate are attached firmly together. The area under the optical drive is not quite up to the mark and bends considerably on applying pressure. The chosen material is magnesium alloy which feels really very cool to the touch and is high scratch resistant.

Hinges are made of steel and covers too are made of non-solid visible silver. They hold the display rigid, and that holds the laptop in position. In order to prevent cable problems there are interfaces at the back.

Professionals and demanding users generally value the selection of ports. The 14 inch notebook has everything to offer when it comes to working with business laptops without providing as many as a precision laptop would have. A VGA port, a PC-Card shaft, and FireWire are included among them.

The Pc card standard which once used to be at its peak and now is completely outdated, is again gaining popularity in the business world. By making use of this feature several special extension cards, particularly controllers, can be attached. The connection for fast external hard drives is also on board as eSATA, although there is no USB 3.0.

Is Dell Latitude E5420 Worth For The Business Purpose? How does it help?

As a great  business notebook the Latitude E5420 can offer  a range of things that can be wished for when it comes to technologies concerning with communication. The main features associated with business, such as Trusted Platform Module or fingerprint reader, are not acquainted with the E5420.  The Kensington Security slot is very helpful and is a definite measure the prevent theft of information.

The important protection against the theft of data, when it compares to the software package parts especially Worry-Free Business Security Services is included. The price for the gaining the license of the software is close to 60 Euros. The software solution is tailored to help the small business firms and also protect against spyware, malware, virus, hackers, tampering of data etc. The web-based console is an important weapon when it comes to the Latitude for an employee can be administrated from anywhere.

User Review

Dell Laptops Latitude  is of great importance especially for any business firm when it comes to subtleness, compactness and reliability. With all its features and a great outlook it is a laptop which would be a worthwhile purpose for any business firms or individuals. With its advent it has already created a craze in the consumer market and with the increasing popularity of this laptop all others are suffering.

Its fantastic association with webcams and loads of other things does rank this laptop amongst the top laptops. The Dell Latitude has been redesigned recently. Dell has thus proved its worth by making it durable, productive and secured. Most of the people who have used the laptop are quite satisfied with the brilliance of the machine. We did ask many of them, and asked them to rate the machine out of 10. Most of them gave around 7.5 to 9, and the average rating turned out to be 7.8.  This laptop is definitely worth buying, customers shall benefit from the machine as it is the best of the lot in the market.