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+++ Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo SU9600 (1.60GHz, 3M L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB), LED LCD +++ Genuine Windows® 7 Professional 64-BIT with media +++ 12.1" Premium WXGA (1280x800) LED Display (Wide View) +++ 2GB DDR3 SDRAM, (1GB Integrated) 2 DIMMs +++ No Intel® vProTM Secure Advanced Hardware Enabled Systems Management +++ 160GB Hard Drive, 5400RPM, Free Fall Sensor +++ E-Module w/ 8X DVD+/-RW w/Roxio and Cyberlink PowerDVDTM +++ Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD +++ 802.11 Intel® WiFi Link 5300 802.11a/g/n Mini Card +++ Dell Wireless® 365 Bluetooth Module +++ Mobile Broadband None +++ Energy Star 5.0 Enabled / EPEAT GOLD +++ System Documentation: Resource DVD - Contains Diagnostics and Drivers for Vista +++ Norton Internet SecurityTM 2009 30 Day Trial +++ External Modem None +++ Operating System Recovery Option None +++ Internal English Keyboard +++ 6 Cell Primary Battery +++ AC Adapter 65W A/C Adapter (3-Pin) +++ 3 Year Limited Warranty and 3 Year Mail-in Service DELL Latitude XT2, Intel SU9600, Win 7 Pro 64Bit, 2GB DDR3, 160GB, WiFi and BT, 3 Years
Good Tablet, Needs ImprovementReviewed by Hydrodave, 2010-01-30
After using the Dell XT2 for six months, I rate it 4 stars due to
its great looks, good speed, and the touch screen is totally
awesome and very impressive. There are many pluses to this tablet
PC, including its tough shell, bright screen (even outside!), and
its Dell quality. Battery life is good, not great, I can get about
4-6 hours with the 'slice' battery, which is not quite long enough
for a day at the client's office. I also own the Fujitsu 4220,
which I rate 5 stars, but it does not have as professional a look
and is a bit heavier than the Dell XT2. Here are some simple things
Dell should do to make the XT2 5 star:
1. Get rid of the Dell Control Point software (which controls wifi,
aircards, all access). I had to have IT disable it because it
fought with my Verizon air card service. It still pops up every
couple days with an annoying error message. When I first got the
Dell, it was with IT for many, many hours with N-Trig applet
errors, wifi errors, and others that linked back to the Control
Point. That was disappointing.
2. Change the stylus - it is brittle, it costs $ 20, and I have
broken two of them in six months from simple 2-3 foot soft drops on
the floor. I have dropped my fujitsu stylus much more often and
beaten it up for 3 years and it is unphased. I dropped my Dell
stylus today and was very surprised that it it did not snap in two,
and still worked. My first stylus broke internally when it sprung
out of its slot (there is a spring in there) and hit the floor of
the MARTA train - not exactly the hardest surface one might
encounter. It looked fine but the electronics were shot. My second
one dropped from a table to a wood floor, again not a hard surface,
and snapped in two (still worked with tape but obscured the erase
and function buttons).
3. GET RID OF THE BLACK KEYS. With a tablet, you move from keyboard
to screen constantly, and the keys cannot be seen in low light. If
you use a tablet, you are going to be working in dark areas from
time to time. Fujitsu keys are white and I can see them well with
the screen lighting and no room light.
If I was going to buy a new tablet today, I probably would get
another Fujitsu for these 3 reasons plus my Fujitsu has withstood
the severe beating I have given it. If Dell fixed these three
items, it'd be a tough decision because the Dell is a real
eye-catcher and with the touch screen I get a lot of questions and
interest when I have it around town and clients offices.
Beautiful Machine: fast, responsive, and portable.Reviewed by Osman Amin, 2010-01-11
Beautiful touch screen tablet. Very fast and responsive. Excellent build quility! I have been very pleased with it. Virtually silent and emits almost no heat. Very light and portable. Highly recommended.
DO NOT BUY THIS TABLETReviewed by Sum1eltz, 2009-12-10
BUYER BEWARE
I am a PC Tech for a Large Medical group in the N.E. - we Lease
about 125 of these tablets for
Clinical Providers to carry around and see patients with. These are
the worst Tablets\Laptops we have ever had.
the Dell tech is in our building so often we are going to get him
his own desk.
The Motherboards and tablet Pens Fail repeatedly and the Medical
Staff Hate these tablets. Buy Another product
you will be glad you did. ALSO the E6500 Laptop is no better -
another Dell Miss racked with major issues.
We are looking into going with HP in the near future.
Great laptop/tabletReviewed by E. Garnett, 2009-05-22
I seriously doubt that the first reviewer actually has a Latitude
XT2. The XT2 has only been available for a couple of months and I
seriously doubt that a college IT dept would issue new laptops
during the middle of the school year. He most likely has the
original Latitude XT which did experience some of the issues that
he described when using some of the earlier drivers.
I am very pleased with my Latitude XT2 and not had a single issue
with it and it. It is a very reliable computer and is a joy to use.
I have not had any of the screen issues that was mentioned nor has
any of the original components needed to be replaced. I highly
recommend the Latitude XT2.
A warning to consumersReviewed by C. J. Blackburn, 2009-05-09
The title of the review should be great insight to what is to
follow here. This computer is by far the worst laptop PC that I
have ever dealt with. We can't just blame everything on the windows
vista OS (although it's extremely buggy) because that would be
unfair. Touch screen malfunctions (to the point where you just have
to turn it off for the computer to function), I've gone through
multiple hard drives (3 to be exact), the touch mouse pad
mysteriously stopped working and had to be replaced, and it freezes
and crashes on a daily basis (maybe a windows problem but just
adding it in there).
The die-hard dell fan might say "oh, it's just one bad apple and
you can't blame the whole bunch." These laptops were given to
everyone in my med school class paid through our tuition, and I'm
sorry to say that my story with this laptop is NOT a unique one.
Our computer support center on campus is flooded with these laptops
daily. So maybe Dell just sent my school and I 290 bad apples? I
think not.
For the price that you pay for this you could get a much nicer
laptop and one that is more reliable. I strongly urge you if you're
reading this to avoid this Dell product at all costs. A price tag
of close to $3,000 is quite a chunk of change to pay for shoddy
craftsmanship.