The D410 brings Intel’s Centrino to the ultraportable space, being built around the 915GM chipset. With a Intel’s Pentium M 750 processor, running at 2GHz, accompanied by 512MB of RAM.
If you’ve spent much time using ultraportables like this Dell D410 , you’ll know that cramped keyboards are a common problem. However, a width of 277mm means the D410′s casing can fit a board of sufficient size for regular typing. The layout is sensible, with Control outside the Function key, and Delete at the top right making the keyboard comfortable to use.
The accurate trackpoint, supplied in addition to a touchpad, is nice to use, The touchpad is accurate and quick, but there’s no pressure-sensitivity setting in the Mouse Control Panel, resulting in some missed taps. But these are minor grumbles and easy to work around.
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The 12.1in TFT’s image quality is good, and the vertical viewing angle wide enough to give a degree of flexibility when placing the screen.
There are two USB ports at the back with gigabit Ethernet, modem and D-SUB ports. A Type I/II PC Card slot is on the right, along with a smart card reader Inside there’s 802.11b/g. The media docking station has parallel printer port, com ports and additional USB ports as well as houses the 8 x DVD-ROM drive and has a compartment for an additional battery
Dell’s Latitude D410 crams a lot of processing power into a lightweight box that’s still big enough to be used without difficulty.
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Specification
| Manufacturer | Dell |
| Model Name | Latitude D410 |
| CPU | Intel Pentium M750 2 GHz |
| Chipset manufacturer & model | Intel 915 |
| System memory (quantity & type) | 512MB 400MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2 x 256MB) |
| Hard disk size/interface & speed | 40GB / UDMA100 / 5,400rpm |
| Optical drive | DVD (8 speed DVD, 24 speed CD) |
| Graphics card manufacturer & model | Mobile Intel 915GM Extreme Graphics |
| Graphics processor | Intel 915GMS Extreme Graphics |
| External ports | 1 x D-Sub |
| Audio controller (manufacturer & model) | SigmaTel C-Major AC97 |
| Additonal features (S/PDIF etc) | IrDa 1.1, 280-pin D/Dock port |
| Display | 12.1 Inch TFT |
| Modem (manufacturer, model & speed) | 56k V.90 |
| Network card (manufacturer & speed) | Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit, Intel PRO/Wireless 220BG |
| PC Card slot(s) / Type | 1 x Type II |
| USB 2.0 ports | 4 x USB 2.0 |
| Other ports | Headphone out, Microphone in |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows XP Professional |
| Office package | Open office Word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation and drawing packages |
| Software other | PDF reader, firefox web browser, Anti virus |
| Width x Depth x Height | 278 x 238 x 31.9mm |
| Weight | 1.72Kg (with 6-cell batt) |
| Dell MediaBase docking station | 2 x USB 2.0, 1x parallel ports, 1x serial port, 1x PS/2, 56K modem, 1x Fast Ethernet, Headphone out Second battery slot for additional battery, Optical drive bay |