Dell Latitude E6400 XFR Intel Core 2 Duo Business Standard Notebook

As the video review is partly explained XFR E6400 is a bit different from most other ‘fully rugged’ notebooks. Not ultra low voltage processor, but rather to provide full power of Intel Core 2 Duo, and therefore the level of job performance. Also, as its name implies, this system is based on the same platform as the notebook Latitude E6400 Business Standard.

This means that the same BIOS, the basic equipment and the same same level of connectivity, so you can take a disk and put the E6400 XFR E6400 (or vice versa) and will work. Bonus potentially useful because the hard disk hot-swap, although E6400 standard is not so convenient. Since the E6400 processor uses XFR stronger than humans, as the Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 is passively cooled, as it is, either. Instead, he used what Dell calls QuadCool temperature control system, which uses a fan system that is isolated from the rest of the system.

It works quite well, but the system is pretty loud when under heavy load – no surprise, really, because Dell also offers discrete graphics in the form of nVidia Quadro NVS 160M with 256 MB of RAM. This is not included in the starting price, however, which brings you only the standard integrated Intel graphics.

As we are always in the case of Dell, who work exactly what can or can not have, like a mysterious puzzle particularly unpleasant. Some options are available in one place but not another, and sharp fluctuations of prices, too. For example, if the purchase of as small or medium size in the initial price is £ 2699 excluding VAT. VAT, but do not have access to all available options, such as touch screen and an integrated HSDPA. For those buyers can be large companies, but then begins official price is £ 2932 – rather theoretical, because contracts for large orders will be negotiated individually, anyway? [via trustedreviews]