Dell Latitude E5500N

Nevertheless in battery operation mode – for 4 hours when reading and two hours in high load condition. Undoubtedly if You tend to watch a film when in a trip You’ll certainly do it – battery charge will be enough.



Design

A black mat computer casing is made of practical stuff. The solid and hard notebook case protects it from any exposures, as well as from mechanical damage. The case of computer doesn’t heat up much while the computer is operating. Thus You can have it on your lap when working.

Creators made a base of the case and a back panel of a monitor hard enough. A bottom and cover is made of aluminum and polycarbonate. A front of the computer is slightly pointed because of a top and a base of the case are tapering .

Smoothed the cover of the notebook has no traceries. It closes by means of wide key placed in a center, not by a spring as common.

Dell Latitude E5500N workspace is made of black mat plastic. There no rounded details so that the notebook looks pretty severe.

At the bottom of E5500N You can see details able to be upgraded, such as memory and hard drive.

Display

A 15’’ diagonal widescreen glossy display WXGA (1440×900 resolution) glares when outside in sunny day. On the other hand a mirror surface allows much better picture contrast than mat screens do. Thanks to high resolution of sides and good horizontal angle You may watch movies and video files in company comfortably, as well as work with texts and spreadsheets at ease.

There is a bright area at a bottom or the screen, especially when dark images.

This model has not a built-in webcam. As to a sound system Intel High Definition Audio there are good enough built-in stereo load speakers. Thanks to an audio system sound quality is clear at high frequency.

Keyboard and touchpad

There are big, a little concave key buttons on the black keyboard. There is no need to get used to

standard keyboard layout pattern when working. Primary keys are marked with white. And the rest – with white and blue. Unfortunately there are no single keys SysRq, Prnt Scrn and Pause. So that functions these keys are up to can be achieved by key combination.

The keyboard has extra keys to control sound: two ones is for sound volume, and one makes sound onoff. There are indicators depicting keyboard mode placed under the one.



The touchpad of the notebook is not only shifted to the left, but separated from the workspace at all. It has horizontal and vertical scroll bars.

On the small touchpad there are square right- and left-click keys placed on the same level as the workplace are.

The fingerprint readout device allows users to secure information against data trespass.

Processor and package

There is no operating system at all, only a setup disc FreeDOS. 200 GB Winchester does 7200 turns per minute.

The speed is rather high despite the fact that hard drive size isn’t big enough. Thus the notebook Latitude E5500N is to demonstrate robust performance especially as it has 2 GB RAM.

Powerful processor Intel Core 2 Duo P9500 operates with 2.53 GHz and has 6 MB 2-level cache memory. It may safely be said that having the high clock speed this model is pretty efficient.


There is no opportunity to play modern games with 32 MB Intel GMA X4500 accelerator card. But VGA may operate using about 1659 MB of system memory. However creators didn’t reckon Dell Latitude E5500N to be game computer. The purpose it fulfills is intensive operating.

ODD (optical disc drive), ports, sockets, Card Reader

Built-in DVD-RW SATA ODD realizes record with two-layers discs. There are many ports and sockets: 4 USB, 4-pin FireWire socket, analog D-SUB for outer monitor, COM-Port and S-VIDEO video output.

But there are no HDMI video output and built-in modem, though RJ-11 is closed with rubber cork. Nevertheless all the ports and sockets are placed suitably, but a little closely.

Conclusion

The Dell Latitude E5500N notebook isn’t for common user. Those who first of all appreciate both functionality and efficiency choose such a computer. To get high-efficiency notebook Latitude E5500N means to enjoy its robust performance. This reliable notebook is ideally fit for professionals thanks to its possibilities which are as good as ones desktop PC demonstrates.