Before the weekend my new Dell e4200 arrived. The first thing I noticed was how light the packaging was - this laptop is really light! A 2.2lbs weight is fine, but the accessories including the external drive and power adaptor are also featherweights. The power adaptor was the biggest surprise as it’s the same size as an iPhone - no large bricks for this small laptop.
This notebook is packed with great features, LED backlight for increased power consumption and reduced size/weight; an external battery meter that lights up 5 LED’s to indicate how much life is left on the battery without turning the laptop on; solid-state drives for better performance, power consumption and the reliability of no-moving-parts; speedy DDR3 RAM; and, a thin 0.75-1.1″ profile and 2.2lbs weight.
Overall I’m pretty happy with the laptop. The fast memory and fast hard drive make Windows performance zippy even though the CPU speed is a slow 1.2ghz. It’s as thin as IBM’s X300 and has more features than the Macbook Air like an SD card slot, ethernet port and eSATA port.
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