I received a used Latitude D820 recently and have been very pleased with its performance. The battery life is good, the performance has been robust and responsive. The only thing I find missing on this computer is a webcam. The speakers are a little tinny, but with headphones the sound is great. I like the nice large screen too! Enjoying my Latitude D820!
This laptop was not worth the money when it was new. This laptop replaced my old dell latitude C640.
It’s an OK laptop that does the job. But I would agree with the other reviewed that “it should run faster” considering the specs. In comparing the specs vs. my old C640, it’s got double the memory, double the CPU, double the harddrive, etc… yet I only see a marginal performance improvement. I have run windows XP, Vista, and wasn’t particularly impressed with the performance of either of them. I’m running 2003 server and it seems to be better now. There is a lot of harddrive noise. There is also a problem with feedback on my telephone when I get close to the computer… presumably due to a faulty ground somewhere on the laptop. It’s also a bit heavier then I would like.
On the pro side, the screen is nice and big, the keyboard is big and comfortable, has 4 USB ports, and came with 2 batteries (one of which has already died).
I got one of these laptops from work and it is not good laptop. It runs the internet and email apps ok but if you try using MS office 2003 or virtual machine for the control systems apps it is slow and very under performing. The laptop itself is very rugged and durable, but again a newer laptop running XP should perform alot better. The hard drives in these laptops are not very good either, mine began failing within 4 months and the diskeeper application sucks and scans and rescans and re-defrags the system for no reason. The trackpad is what makes me totally hate this laptop. The keyboard is great and comfortable similar to an Inspirion that works. The trackpad zones out everytime I use this lapotp. It just stops working and my cursor stops moving like im not even touching the trackpad. So then I switch to the nub in the middle of the keyboard to try and do my work and it too stops working. The trackpad itself sucks, is unresponcive, and just doesen’t work. The screen is ok but when light hits it you wont be able to see it which for an industrial laptop is just stupid. Overall this would not be a laptop I would recommend for home or work use.
This machine is extremely durable. Despite what others might say about it running apps slowly, they don’t know how to manage their OS. This machine can run any application, including Adobe Creative Suite apps well. Sure, it’s not the fastest thing on the market, but it’s a 2.0 dual core CPU, it’s a great deal, and for any student/office person trying to save money while still getting things done, it’s a great buy. The hardware holds up great, and don’t let others tell you it’s slow because of how they treat their OS.
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I received a used Latitude D820 recently and have been very pleased with its performance. The battery life is good, the performance has been robust and responsive. The only thing I find missing on this computer is a webcam. The speakers are a little tinny, but with headphones the sound is great. I like the nice large screen too! Enjoying my Latitude D820!
This laptop was not worth the money when it was new. This laptop replaced my old dell latitude C640.
It’s an OK laptop that does the job. But I would agree with the other reviewed that “it should run faster” considering the specs. In comparing the specs vs. my old C640, it’s got double the memory, double the CPU, double the harddrive, etc… yet I only see a marginal performance improvement. I have run windows XP, Vista, and wasn’t particularly impressed with the performance of either of them. I’m running 2003 server and it seems to be better now. There is a lot of harddrive noise. There is also a problem with feedback on my telephone when I get close to the computer… presumably due to a faulty ground somewhere on the laptop. It’s also a bit heavier then I would like.
On the pro side, the screen is nice and big, the keyboard is big and comfortable, has 4 USB ports, and came with 2 batteries (one of which has already died).
I got one of these laptops from work and it is not good laptop. It runs the internet and email apps ok but if you try using MS office 2003 or virtual machine for the control systems apps it is slow and very under performing. The laptop itself is very rugged and durable, but again a newer laptop running XP should perform alot better. The hard drives in these laptops are not very good either, mine began failing within 4 months and the diskeeper application sucks and scans and rescans and re-defrags the system for no reason. The trackpad is what makes me totally hate this laptop. The keyboard is great and comfortable similar to an Inspirion that works. The trackpad zones out everytime I use this lapotp. It just stops working and my cursor stops moving like im not even touching the trackpad. So then I switch to the nub in the middle of the keyboard to try and do my work and it too stops working. The trackpad itself sucks, is unresponcive, and just doesen’t work. The screen is ok but when light hits it you wont be able to see it which for an industrial laptop is just stupid. Overall this would not be a laptop I would recommend for home or work use.
Rugged yes, performance no.
This is one of the best unit i have ever brought, the computer works great.
This machine is extremely durable. Despite what others might say about it running apps slowly, they don’t know how to manage their OS. This machine can run any application, including Adobe Creative Suite apps well. Sure, it’s not the fastest thing on the market, but it’s a 2.0 dual core CPU, it’s a great deal, and for any student/office person trying to save money while still getting things done, it’s a great buy. The hardware holds up great, and don’t let others tell you it’s slow because of how they treat their OS.