I have now been using the Dell Latitude E4200 for a week and it’s generally been a very positive experience.

The Good

Performance: This continues to impress. The fast transfer rate and access time of the SSD keep the system very responsive and perky, even after bogging down the system with Windows Updates and Anti-Virus etc.

Battery Life: In a 24 hour period which contained 12 hours in suspend/sleep mode the laptop was operational for 5h:40m on battery. I am not using any of the Dell power management software so even better results may be possible. Note: During the 12 hours of sleep the battery lost 10% of its power.

The Not so good

I experienced one blue screen, this was when the laptop was coming out suspend mode. It’s probably been in and out of this mode more than 100 times. So this appears to be  an isolated incident.

It sometimes fails to re establish a remote desktop connection to another computer. A reboot on the laptop end fixes it. This happened a couple of times earlier in the week but not subsequently.

The Intel Wireless sometimes drops and then immediately re-connects not often but I have seen it happen when it shouldn’t. I think this is a power management setting I need to change on the Intel side.

iTunes would not authorise until it was rebooted and then I had to power it off manually as it would not shutdown after the iTunes 8.01 was installed.

Other

I haven’t figured out how to keep the lid clean it’s collecting various finger prints.

I’ve given a few product demo’s to clients and they are all impressed by the size and speed of the laptop.

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