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2.5 stars
"Good size and performance, terrible keyboard"
Pros: Processor speed, light weight
Cons: terrible keyboard, mediocre battery life
Summary: I've had my Latitude D410 for about three months now. I use it both as a desktop replacement and a mobile laptop. It's served my needs pretty well: the processor is terrific, and it has very good connectivity (4 USB ports!). The single biggest downside of the notebook is that its keyboard is terrible. I've previously owned a Dell Inspiron 5000 and a couple of IBM Thinkpads, both of which had good keyboards, but the Latitude's keyboard is far inferior. Particularly notable is that there are mouse buttons situated just under the space bar so whenever you use your thumb to hit space it slams into the fixed part of the mouse button. Basically, don't buy this notebook if you plan on using its keyboard for serious typing of any sort. Most of the time, I just plug in an external keyboard and monitor -- it's fine for that.
A couple of other notes -- I've had bad luck with this notebook's NIC, it doesn't work consistently. Battery life is so-so. And I wish that the computer had come with a 7200rpm hard drive option.
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Dell Latitude D410 Notebook Computer (Pentium M 750 1.86GHz/40GB/512MB):
$399.99
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