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amazon Dell Latitude 6430u reviews
Advantage:
+ Design durable, certainly
+ Performance fairly.
+ Full connectivity
+ Fast boot time.
Disadvantages:
– Heavier and thicker dimensions than a ultrabook.
– The screen is not sharp, low angle
– Small touchpad
– TrackPoint inaccurate, inefficient use
– Low-capacity storage drive
Design
Dell Latitude 6430u has a square design, simple but sophisticated style of business models. The rounded corners gently. The entire coating material is magnesium alloy to create the feeling of luxury and surely. The top surface is coated with black paint gray, feels smooth to touch, non-slip, though slightly sticky fingerprints but also easy to wipe away. Sometimes I still see the small patches when light strikes, but this phenomenon is not so evident.
Bright chrome Dell logo in the center mounted prominently on the dark paint. Bottom machine with 3 small LED status display when in use. Two side edges and the front edge of this surface are slightly beveled.
The edges of the machine made up of a seamless metal frame running around. This frame bright colors stand out from the master machine, designed curved edges make it looks thinner and less heavy machinery. On either side, behind the border area large enough to accommodate the communication port, before being clawed thin areas.
Dell Latitude 6430u 337.82 x 228.6 size x 20,82mm, weight 1,81kg. These parameters still meet the standards ultrabook but not really impressed by the thickness and the weight of it’s larger than many other ultrabook form the same size as the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (330 x 222 x 18,8mm, 1 , 48 kg), the HP EliteBook Folio 9470m (353 x 231 x 19,05mm, 1.63 kg) … However, the main “sacrifice” thinness and weight so the machine is full of connections that many other ultrabook do not have.
The right side has an SD Card slot machines, USB 3.0 charging function portable devices, LAN port, Kensington lock hole hooks.
The left side has the switch on / off Wi-Fi connection, headphone jack, a USB port, VGA port and power connector.
These slots are taken off the radiator side of the machine, on the edge also has an HDMI port and an eSATA port.
Screen
6430u Dell screen is attached to the steel hinge was placed perpendicular to the fixed body below. The maximum aperture of the screen up to 180 degrees.
Dell 6430u Letitude equipped 14-inch screen size, anti-glare technology for feeling comfortable viewing even when used outdoors. The resolution of conventional machines at present is 1366 x 768 pixels, enough to meet the demand as web surfing, watching movies, working … but proved inferior to the resolution of Full HD Asus Zenbook Prime (1920 x 1080 pixels), the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (1600 x 900 px) …
When actual use, I found the colors still show good feeling though not brilliant by glass screens. Ability to display the text content crisp, clear images display in the front perspective but looking at the other corner (two next to the machine or on the bottom edge), the image is darkened, the color is also altered a bit. Although physicists can open very wide angle but the screen viewing angle is not high.
The maximum brightness of the screen is also quite low at 143 lux, lower than the average of 227 lux. HP EliteBook Folio 9470m rivals with higher brightness with 165 lux, while the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is 290 lux. In most environments used, I usually put the screen at higher brightness of 90% or more comfortable to use.
Keyboard, touchpad and trackpoint
Latitude 6430u attached keyboard style Island (also called chiclet keyboard) with widely spaced keys, the keys surface width (full size) and slightly bent down with the spacebar journey (about 2.5mm ), a good bounce enables comfortable typing fingers for a long time. Four arrow keys to navigate large size equivalent to the keys instead of tiny letters as in many ultrabook form and some other laptops (Acer E1-571G) …
Computer keyboard in the form of simple when 83 buttons and pretty easy to see by some feature in combination with the Fn key has been moved to the outside of a separate button, for example, the button on / off, up above the volume down and switch on / off Wi-Fi on the left side.
Backlit keyboard is one of the characteristics commonly found on business laptops and Dell Latitude 6430u keyboard nor exception. The users can easily work under low light power at custom backlight and can be turned off if desired. Not only that, spill resistant keyboard to help protect users in situations unfortunately fallen into the water.
Latitude E6430u keyboard is also integrated TrackPoint keys triangle between three key “G”, “B”, “H”. TrackPoint buttons are slightly concave surface and rather bulging black and red as we see on the Lenovo ThinkPad. The sensitivity and precision of this node controller Latitude 6430u also proved inferior rival Lenovo.
Below the keyboard, the touchpad of the machine a little baby compared to current trends. The two mouse buttons are separate functions than the trackpad. Above the touchpad area there are three hardware buttons with the same functionality as three mouse buttons that I’ve ever seen on the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon model, but it does not make me impressed both design and user convenience .
My assessment machine supports two-finger touchpad to scroll web pages but can not zoom though the state has been placed on the manufacturer’s standards. Perhaps the reason is the machine you need to install the driver for the touchpad.
In short, help desk roughness touchpad with gesture recognition sensitivity, the mouse buttons feels good but overall I pressed evaluation is not high.
Software and Utilities
Just a few simple steps, users can quickly return the computer to the state it used outdoors or movie mode, power saving mode through Dell Smart Settings software preinstalled.
Dell Battery Life utility allows users to quickly charge the battery in about an hour or adjust the battery mode settings based on availability.
Users also easily create an archive and restored when needed with Dell Backup and Recovery program.
Reliability and security features
Reliability and security features are an important element of business laptops. Dell Latitude 6430u is tested for reliability standards of the US military MIL-STD-810G that includes anti-shock, anti-vibration shock, dustproof, pressure and temperature and humidity in harsh environments .
Some other security technology is also integrated on the machine, such as Intel’s vPro technology to allow users remote access to the machine to monitor battery life, perform system updates and wipe drive hard as needed. Chip TPM (Trusted Platform Module) integrated on the motherboard to increase control access to the hard drive.
Proprietary software Dell Data Protection / Encryption to encrypt and protect drive data.
However an important security feature commonly found on computers and business is eye fingerprint reader, I did not appear on my computer evaluation.
128GB SSD Latitude 6430u for data read speed average 483.1 MB / sec. This is an impressive result compared to many models used other SSDs with an average speed of 200 MB / sec and approximately 7 times higher than the figure of 70 MB / sec average common in laptops bring HDD.
On Windows startup time of approximately 12 seconds the machine, outstripping the average boot time is 33 seconds. ThinkPad X1 Carbon although well used but 128GB SSD boot times in Windows 8 will also need up to 30 seconds, while the EliteBook Folio 9470M but also use SSD 180GB capacity, just 21 seconds.
Temperature and noise
In normal conditions, the Latitude 6430u works pretty cool and quiet. Most common tasks are not as hot and noisy when the machine is used long time. The temperature hovers at around 51 degrees.
The figures measured by the software when it is so, but the actual use, I found the heat dissipation capability of the machine is quite good, in general, the region is cool enough to work comfortably even with tasks slightly heavier in the long run.
Battery
We use software VLC running continuously a 720p HD movie from the factory fully charged battery to 100% to 5% when the battery. Conditions set up the machine are: Windows firewall turned off, turn off the antivirus program, disable Wi-Fi and other modes unnecessary, headphone jack, volume level adjustment 60%, 80% screen brightness. Film running time is 3 hours measured 5 minutes.
Use the Chrome browser for download 9 sites and automatically reloads every 15 minutes, opening a new online music site and for continuous playback, use headphones instead of speakers at full volume and to 60% 80% screen brightness machine run until around 5% (auto off), the time to reach 3 hours 8 minutes.
Charging time from the machine when the machine was 5% to 98% is 2 hours 20 minutes.
Thus, compared to the ultrabook battery life of the machine has not been very well, but also can meet the continuous use of 5-7 hours with normal demand.
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Dell Latitude 6430u
Processor: Intel Core i5-3427U, 1.8GHz
RAM: 4 GB
Storage Drive: 128 GB SSD
Optical drive: No
Display: 14-inch anti-glare, 1366 x 768 pixels
Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Ports: 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x VGA, 1 x HDMI, 1 x LAN, 1 x eSATA, combo headphone / mic, 1 memory card reader
Webcam: VGA
Battery: 3-cell (36Whr); about 6.5 hours operation
Dimensions: 338.2 x 229,7mm x 20,9mm
Weight: 1.69 kg (3 cell battery included)