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The Dell Latitude D600 is a solid business system with good features and components: a 1.8-GHz Pentium M 745, 512MB of RAM, 802.11g wireless, a DVD burner, and an 80GB hard drive. But when we matched it up against the competition, we found that other notebooks here offer more performance for less money.
The 5.4-pound D600 has a clean design with a comfortable full-size keyboard, both a pointing stick and a touch pad, and a crisp 14.1-inch SXGA+ display. It also includes two USB ports, a PC Card slot, and, surprisingly, a DVD+RW drive. Located right below the PC Card slot is a smart-card reader for added security.
The D600 performed worse than expected on our tests: 17.6 on Business Winstone and 21.3 on Multimedia Content Creation Winstone. Though these scores are below par for this kind of notebook, they are adequate for typical users. What’s more disappointing is the D600’s score of 3:03 on BatteryMark—second to last in this category.
Dell offers several docking stations and port replicators that are compatible across the entire D line, as is the AC adapter. The OS image is not common across the D line, though many of the drivers (like modem and wireless) are common.
Review By Reviews.cnet
The thin-and-light Latitude D600 series, based on the new Pentium M processor, marks the start of an ambitious new corporate look for Dell. Not only has the company redesigned all of its popular Latitude laptops, it has also reworked its docking stations, port replicators, and media modules. The notebooks carry the very latest components, including Pentium M processors and Intel’s new 855 chipset. The D600 series isn’t always a true-blue Centrino, but it can be. The company offers either the Centrino-completing Intel Pro wireless mini-PCI card, known as Calexico, or Dell Computer’s own TrueMobile Wi-Fi mini-PCI cards, supporting 802.11a/b/g. If your corporate budget includes money for a new laptop line, the Latitude D series is a wise way to spend it.
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Review By Pcworld
If legacy connections and long battery life are what you need in a business laptop, the Dell Latitude D600 delivers. The slim Wi-Fi-ready unit weighs 5.4 pounds and has parallel and serial connections for old office peripherals. For typists, the D600 provides both a low-profile pointing stick in the center of the keyboard and the more popular touchpad. The two sets of mouse buttons cater to polar-opposite tastes: The pointing stick’s buttons are squishy and deep-depressing, while the touchpad’s buttons are extremely stiff. In our battery tests, the D600 lasted just over 4 hours, about an hour longer than the average laptop.
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Review By Pcmag
The D600 measures 1.2 by 12.4 by 10.1 inches (HWD) and weighs 5.5 pounds (6.3 pounds with AC adapter). Though the unit is among the smallest of the six systems here, nothing is missing or compromised. The chassis houses a 14-inch SXGA+ display, a removable DVD/CD-RW drive, a full-size (19-mm) keyboard, pointing stick, and touch pad, dedicated volume and mute buttons, one PC Card slot, and one SmartCard slot. The D600’s ports are clearly color-coded.
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Review By itreviews
On the opposite side of the chassis to the modular bay, there is a single Type II card slot and the slot for the integrated Smart Card reader. Joining these are the two audio ports and the IR port. The rear panel holds all the remaining ports; two USB 2.0, single LAN, modem, parallel, serial and VGA ports and an S-Video port. As there are no PS/2 ports, if you want to use an external mouse and keyboard, these will have to be USB items.
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