Dell Latitude E 5400 Notebook

We had been eagerly waiting to lay our hands on the E5400 for a while, mainly

because of two reasons: first, being amongst the first notebooks to be based on

the new Centrino 2 platform and second, being pitched as a true no-nonsense

business notebook.

The jet black body makes it look stylish and it feels quite solid as well.

The notebook is powered by a Core2Duo P9500 processor running at 2.53GHz and it

has 2GB RAM. For data security it has a fingerprint scan option and the safety

of the hard disk is ensured through a free fall sensor. Presence of a trackball

along with the touch pad, a big enough keyboard, the 14.1” display and various

indication lights makes for a pleasurable user experience.

However, we were more interested to test its performance. So, we put the

Centrino 2 based engine to our standard benchmark tests. It scored 4739 PCMarks

in PC Mark 05 and 712 3D marks in 3DMark06, both being higher than most of the

competition. And that too without a dedicated graphics card! Finally it was time

to test the battery back, the parameter where many notebooks have disappointed

us in the past. However, the E5400 came out with distinction in this test as

well. On the standard six-cell battery, it gave a battery backup of 4 hours 43

mins, with full screen brightness which is simply awesome.

Bottom Line: A terrific business notebook that would do

well to sport a webcam for video conferencing.