Dell Latitude D830 Core 2 Duo Laptop

We bought our Dell Latitude D830 in April of 2008 and have never had any sort of problem with it. It has always done the job required of it without any difficulties at all and worked perfectly right out of the box.

Admittedly we have not been a heavy user of the D830 and mostly use it around the house when we need some freedom to do our work somewhere other than our home offices. It has not been exposed to extremes of temperature and has not been dropped or otherwise subjected to abuse.

It has wireless access to our Ethernet network and provides the flexibility we desired when we bought it. When taken out of the house for some special projects it did its job properly.

This is one of two Dells we have along with an HP desktop and has probably needed less attention to keep it working right than any other computer we have.

My configuration is:

Intel Centrino Processor, NVidia Quadro NVS 135M Video, Wired / Wireless Ethernet, 4 GB Memory, 160 GB HD, CD/DVD RW.

I've been using it about 3 4 years now. With a 3 year warranty, the only problem I ever had (to be expected) was the hard drive going bad. I replaced it for free near the end of my warranty.

I'm running dual boot:

Windows XP / Linux Mint 9 LXDE

I spend more time in Linux Mint 9 LXDE than I do in Windows.

When I'm not in Linux Mint 9 LXDE, I'm either test booting Linux Distros from CD / DVD, using Sun VirtualBox to boot test downloaded ISOs, or creating or booting from Linux USB.

I've run just about every version of Ubuntu from version 9 up to / through version 10, Linux Mint (HIGHLY recommended light on resources, user friendly): CrunchBang, Knoppix, Fedora 14, Puppy Linux, GeexBox, ZorinOS, Back-Box (Network Diagnostics, Network Security Toolkit also run without a hitch.

It has problems with Gnome 3.0 / Unity, and the latest versions (11.*) of Ubuntu as well as running 3D graphics or for that matter HD video.

But, for my purposes: Internet Connectiity, Basic Application access (Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Graphics, Audio / Video) LibreOffice, VLC, Audacity, Gnome MediaPlayer, ImageViewer, Feh, FSLint (for cleanup), Ubuntu Tweak, BleachBit (Cleanup / Config tools). TSClient for remote connectivity, It does what I want, need it to do with a minimum of fuss.

Ocasionally, I drop over into Windows when I absolutely can't get it done in Linux.

But, ever since switching over to Linux a majority of my Windows (Virus / Trojan) problems and the attendant performance hits went away.

I print to an HP LJ1300 from Linux. I use Document Viewer (built in) for PDFs. I've ported basic documents / spreadsheets to / from Office 2007.

The only thing it doesn't do well (if at all) is Flash Development. There, Windows (specifically Adobe / Macromedia) Flash has an edge. Haven't played with it much at all, but, for 3D develpment, there's Blender.

Not intended to be a Linux Promo. Just to let you know how my Latitude D830 is setup, what I use it for, and how it runs.

I do tech support for a living and support Windows based systems primarily.

If you're not married to Windows, this is a fine system for running Linux (besides the added advantage of it being FREE or Open Source.

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This laptop has been so reliable for 2-3 years now. I got this lap top from my step dad when his work upgraded their laptops (they still use dell) and i had some issues at first but it was just windows. The processor could be a little faster but its still good.

Now for gaming. Important-------> THIS COMPUTER WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO WATCH SD VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE AND WONT BE ABLE TO PLAY MOST GAMES! But this does support windows 7 areo 64bit or 32bit but wont suport vista areo for some reason.

This is a great laptop for work or normal internet browsing like on Facebook.

Proud owner of a Dell.

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I ordered the Dell refurbished D830 and it was just as advertised! Product was in great shape with quick shipping. Plenty of software loaded to get started and runs all of my older software with no issues.

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>> UPDATE Nov 2012