Latitude D620 with Quadro Review - Page 11

my hdd is now making a buzzing noise

Thanks for the info. Main reason I've purchased the D620 was not for business purpose but for the possibility to have external monitor, port replicator, and monitor stand. Wanted something that I can just dock and your're ready to go. Although I am in the IT field, a business laptop would not suit me....come on now....in IT you can have your choice from all different laptop/workstations that you can use for the office and if you use a laptop you can take it home as well and use for personal. Actually writing this on my work laptop right now. To me the screen sucks and now with me getting the M1210 this should be a sweet system even though with smaller screen but it does have widescreen so that's good. Specs are pretty much the same and I get a better screen. In talks with our corp rep to get my D620 exchange for the M1210.

Guess in the end it all depends on the user and the main thing.....is that your happy with your purchase. Glad that you are happy with your D620.

I've had just about every consumer level Dell laptop released in the past 2 years:
In reverse cronological order:
Inspiron 640m, Inspiron 6400, Precision M20, (skipped 630m) Latitude D610, Inspiron 6000, Inspiron 700m, Inspiron 600m, Inspiron 5150, Inspiron 5100, Inspiron 1100. etc( you get the point)

I recently purchased the D620, and I generally like my D620 (Duo 2.0GHz, 1GB 667MHz RAM, 60GB 7200RPM HD, NVIDIA NVS110M 256MB, WXGA+ LG/Philips, WLAN, BT, etc). I did some benchmarks (own benchmarks, quite accurate, been running it for years) and utilizing both cores, it even beats my Dell GX620 D930 (Dual core @3.0GHz, 2MB cache) by a small margin.

My screen (LG/P) seems alright. In my opinion, I think the screen is actually better than my i640m's SEC(Samsung) WXGA+ Truelife screen which felt washed out, but the ultimate screen is on my Inspiron 6400, ultrasharp WSXGA+ w/ truelife. An outstanding display I must say on the 6400.

My only complaint with the new unit is that it runs quite hot:
- CPU is hot (always running at 2GHz, I thought speedstep should bring it down when not needed to 1GHz, but it doesn't often do that even when sitting idle)
- HD @ 7200RPM is hot
- I'd assume the videocard gets quite hot.

My 640m ran very cool (1.86GHz, 5400RPM, GMA950). Didn't feel any heat whatsoever. The 6400 was hotter, but not quite as hot as the D620 though.

I'm actually thinking about swapping the HD to a 5400 RPM just to reduce the heat.

All around, I like this system quite a bit. It is probably one of the better systems Dell has put out in the recent years. Considerably better than the D600/610 series.

LCD design

Thats very interesting. I'm using the notebook for mostly college classes and work. I RARLY watch movies and I don't think i've played a game in over 5 years. So if this screen is better on battery life, then i'm all for it. I saw a WXGA in the store and it looks great so as long as the WXGA+ looks just as good, then i'll be happy. I have a D400 right now, I just want to quality to be close to that. I also don't want it to be hard on my eyes since I work on it over 12 hours a day.

on a totally new topic, just wondering if your guys have a problem with your latitude not closing all the way. There is a bit of a rattle in mine when you shake it because the screen does not shut all the way. Thanks

There is no rattle on my unit The screen stinks as it is an LG screen. Two other D620's with no rattle as well. LG screens which are crap.

there seems to be 10 page thread on dell about this screen issue,

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportfor...cending&page=1

hopefully dell finds a response and recalls these garbage screens we got, this is ridicules to have this type of screen for a high-end laptop

I've had mine docked so I didn't notice it until now. It definitely "rattles" because the latch isn't tight. There's a bit of play. Not only that, there is more space between laptop and screen on the right side than there is on the left side.

Guess it's time to call my rep!

~Moose

This is aweful. Bad screens, bad lids, poor quality!

I got lucky. I don't have problems but it seems that is the exception, not the rule.

just called my rep guess what they are designed like this, even the guy who came down to my house said so. Geez give me a break for a high end laptop it sure has a whole load of problems,

heads up

Just a quick heads up to people buying this, I will recommend against it, here are my reasons

1) I had my screen replaced twice due to light leakage and poor quality of the screen. I got the poor quality AUO screen once, and they finally replaced with a samsung screen.

want proof, check out this 15 page dell thread about people b11tching about this screen.

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportfor...cending&page=1

2) My lid on my laptop does not close properly there is something wrong with the hinges, and the design of the lid making it not close proplely

3) Battery makes a whiney noise replaced twice (this might be a more isolated case)

not any knock on ronins review, which I appreciate him taking the time to do. But this has been my experience and experience of lot of others. The no.1 complaint is the effing screen!, just garbage, comparing this screen to my 2 year old 600 lappy is, makes my old laptop look like a 2k laptop. Really just that bad (See dell link)

anyways I hope this helps, stay away there are better deals out there

I'm for D620 and D420 to come and ill give my comment on it. I have some question regarding the Laptop. I have an I8600 which works very good. But I just want to get a new laptop because of the weight. I run my own Computer Consulting business Helping Client Their computer needs. Carrying the I8600 is getting to be a Drag. The I8600 Weights about 8 pounds with out the other thing I have to carry around with me. This laptop is about half the weight so let see what happens. The I8600 had the same problem as this laptop everyone and the LCD. Back then the LCD in question was the Hitachi. When I got my I8600 it was the less desire Hitachi and I never seem to have a problem with it. Everything worked fine. it all Psychology, now the you are aware of the screen issue When you get yours you are going to be focus on this problem and my even find problems that are not even there. Don't get me wrong some of you may have Defective display. But some people may not have any and just because something that looks what people describe here they are going to assume this must be the problem. Well let see what happen I will get my D620 in about 1 week. So i hope I don’t have any problems like most of you claim to have. I’m also ordered a D420 ill be putting this two machines head to head, so look out for a review with this two machines.

1. Is this modular bay compatible with the I8600? This would be really cool. I have a hard drive caddy and a Extra battery for it?
2.
Does the Video card has 256mb on board or is this 64mb and the rest is shared?
3. What is this turbo caching?

2. With NVS 110M it has 64mb on board and the rest is shared.

3. http://www.dell.com/content/learnmor...tit&~tab=other

Has anyone try Vista Beta on this machine. And if no im willing to try where can i get a copy of it.

It seems there is tons of complaints about this screen, but I think it's great . I have absolutely no light leakage. My thinkpad t42p sxga+screen was excellent, but only if the laptop was indoors. This d620 xga+ screen is excellent outdoors compared to the thinkpad screen, which was also a samsung. The biggest problem with the screen on the d620 (with the quadro nvs110) is the default nvidia software settings. Just go to the 'color corrrection' option in the nvida control panel and change the 'digital vibrance' option.

This laptop is an excellent performer with the T2500, 2GB RAM Nvidia Quadro 110, 100GB 7200 HD. The only issue is the ergonomics of the track point and buttons, since my last laptop was a thinkpad which has the best track point mouse and button placement. However, compared to my work d610 laptop and xps gen I, this new track point is a major improvement. BTW, I absolutely hate touch pads, but that's my preference.

I'm wondering if it is worth upgrading from 533 to 667 MHz.

The NVS110 has 64 mb dedicated and 192 shared memory. Will having a 533 or 667 MHz RAM impact a lot on performance during heavy graphics use?

Do not get the D620!

I had it for 45 days and got hit with 10% when I return it.

It hurt my eye so bad. The screen is horrible. Go to Dell forum and read up on it.