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The Dell Latitude D430 proves to be an exemplary companion in our review. The up to now smallest no the Latitude series is quiet, compact, light, and its workmanship is good. The runtime of the small 42 Wh is due to special energy-saving components up to 6 hours. Despite being equipped with low-energy com the frugal Core 2 Duo with 1.2 GHz clock rate combined with very fast SSD hard disk is suffic powerful for daily business. Reviewed: Dell Latitude D430 Subnotebook

Notebook specifications

Dell Latitude D430 :: Processor Core 2 Duo U7600 1.2 GHz ( 2 Duo) Working for Notebookcheck :: Mainboard Are you a loyal reader of notebookcheck? Are you the one Intel 945GMS all your friends turn to when they want to buy a or :: Memory tablet-PC? Are you a techie who knows how to write? 1024 MB, PC2-4200, 266 MHz Case Then join our Team! :: Graphics adapter The 12 inch Dell Latitude D430 by Dell, an American direct shipper, is up to now the smallest Intel Graphics Accelerator Especially wanted: Latitude series. It was especially designed for business customers. So, the choice of forms and colou (GMA) 950 Senior Editor - Details here German-English-Translator - Details here business-like too. Bright grey and black dominate the look of this light portable , which weigh :: Display 1.5 kg. Some colour spots, i.e., a blue track point in the keyboard and green indicator LEDs, make the 12.1 inch 16:10, 1280x800 pixel, Chinese Licensee - Details here designed inside look more vivid. glossy: no Latest Reviews Because an internal optical drive is missing, the Dell Latitude D430 is very compact. If closed it is ju :: Harddisk PZA064, 64GB Review MSI GT60-i789W7H Notebook two and a half cm high, 29.2 cm long, 21.3 cm wide – this is hardly bigger than an A4 notebook. Our Edged and crooked. With the GT60, MSI throws a scales display a weight of exactly 1488 g including battery. Without it, the complete notebook weights e :: Soundcard 15,6-inch notebook with current I... - 2012/06/07 g less - impressing. SigmaTel STAC9200 :: Connections Review Samsung Series 5 550P7C-S02DE This is possible because of the very stable, but light magnesium case. This high quality material com Notebook 1 PC-Card, 3 USB 2.0, 1 Firewire, 1 Powerful Entertainer. Attention fans: and the complete case, inside and outside. Besides excellent stability and low weight this also contrib VGA, V.92 , 1 Kensington Samsung has produced an elegant... - 2012/06/07 good look and high-quality haptics of this small notebook. So, you'll completely miss creaking noises Lock, 1 Port, Card kind and disdainful plastic look. Look and feel of the case are clearly first-class. Reader: SD-memory cards, Review U44SG Notebook Like a Piece of Paper in the Wind. Thin, quiet and :: Networking light - these words describe ... - 2012/06/05 A modular, external drive is to handle CDs and . Inside the reviewed notebook's DBay, which ha Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5754M same colours as the notebook, there is a modular combo drive. You can connect it to the D430 via spec PCI-E Gigabit Review Asus UX32VD (10/100MBit), Intel WiFi USB2.0 port within seconds, whereas an external is not necessary. It's a pity, that this Miracles happen. The first rumors about Asus' new Link 4965AGN (abgn) drive is simply made of plastics, although the price is, depending on the equipment, rather high. So, it fe revised Zenbook series made s... - 2012/06/03 clearly worse to the touch than the notebook, which is made of magnesium parts. :: Size Review Asus G55VW-S1020V Notebook height x width x depth (in mm): 2.0 Ivy Bridge meets Kepler. The latest revision of Asu The equipment is standard. Three USB-Ports, Firewire, and a SD slot are a - 2.4 x 21.3 x 29.2 popular 15.6-inch Republi... - 2012/06/01 available. A PCMCIA slot makes enhancements possible, furthermore, a docking port belongs to the s :: Weight equipment too. An external screen can be connected via VGA. GBit-LAN, WLAN, and the usual 56K m 1.488 kg Power Supply: 0.344 kg make communication with others possible. Optionally this Dell notebook is equipped with a HSDPA mo » ThinkPad X230 2306-2AU Laptop Review :: Battery » In Review: Intel Ivy Bridge Dual-Core CPUs The SIM card has to be inserted below the battery. reader and TPM chip for increasing da 42 Wh Lithium-Ion, 11.1 V » M14x R2 Review security are standard of this notebook. » Review EasyNote LK11-BZ-080GE Notebook :: Price » Alienware M17x R4 Notebook Review 1800 Euro Benchmarks and Hardware :: Windows XP Professional 32 Bit • Comparison of Laptop Graphics Cards • Mobile Graphics Cards - Benchmark List Left Side: Kensington Lock, Audio Ports, PCMCIA-Slot, SD memory :: Additional features • How much graphic memory makes sense? external drive in DBay, • Notebook Processors • Mobile Processors - Benchmarklist • Notebook Purchase Consultation • Notebook Hardware Guide • DPI (Fineness) of Displays

Right Side: Fan, WLAN switch, Power Switch

Front Side: No Ports

The small D430 has a high-quality Back Side: LAN, Modem, 3x USB, VGA, Firewire, Power Connector magnesium case... to top Advantages of subnoteooks are their small dimensions and their high mobility. However, there are disadvantages. E.g., also the keyboard has to be smaller than those of bigger . Densely lo smaller key heads are direct consequences. So, these small notebooks are not really appropriate if you

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In this aspect the Dell Latitude D430 is no exception. Although it is obvious at once that the manufacturer tried to make all keys sufficiently big, longer with this subnotebook is

more cumbersome than with notebooks providing bigger keyboards. This is not only caused by the AS5560-7402 AMD A6-3420M Quad dense layout. The keyboard also clearly yields at its right side. Besides this, the key feedback is 15.6in Notebook (4GB/500GB) $399.99 user-friendly and the keys feel nice to the touch.

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Display ... and looks good and business-like. Dell Coupons HP Coupons Lenovo Coupons Coupons Deals Laptop Deals The Dell Latitude D430's small 12.1 inch display is as good as the displays of bigger Dell notebooks. The resolution of 1280x800 pixels is External Reviews standard for this class and 16:10 wide-screen format is used. So, the desktop size is as big as the one of most 15.4 inch notebooks, however, • Sorting by manufacturer the icons and the fonts are because of the fine resolution clearly smaller • Sorting by display than on bigger screens. Due to a matte and high luminance it • Sorting by weight • Sorting by graphic card is even outdoors absolutely fit for business. Color Diagram LCD • Sorting by processor The workmanship of this 12 inch notebook is very good... 201 228 214 • Total rating cd/m² cd/m² cd/m² • Rating - price/value 212 255 225 Information • Rating - performance cd/m² cd/m² cd/m² Maximum: 255 cd/m² Average: 224.2 cd/m² • Rating - features 225 231 227 Brightness Distribution: 79 % • Rating - display cd/m² cd/m² cd/m² Black: 1.45 cd/m² • Rating - mobility Contrast: 176:1 • Rating - workmanship • Rating - ergonomy • Rating - emissions Distribution of brightness ... furthermore, it is made of high- Discussion This LCD scores points at the subjective test. Colour brilliance and neutrality are good, however, quality materials. there is a slight blue tint with factory settings. The average luminance of 224 cd/m² is very good. 20:32 June 7, 2012 However, regarding contrast ratio and vertical viewing angles it is only in the lower third of its Re: Review Asus Zenbook UX32VD Ultrabook class. Of course this does not disturb in Word, Excel etc. Most important aspects are an even 20:31 June 7, 2012 illumination and a high luminance for these fields of operation. And here this LCD convinces. Re: Review Samsung Series 5 550P7C-S02DE Notebook 19:08 June 7, 2012 Handy: A small brightness sensor automatically adjust the brightness of the display to the Re: In Review: Intel Ivy Bridge Dual-Core CPUs brightness of the environment, if configured for dynamic adjustment. If we go outside, the brightness is 16:09 June 7, 2012 Re: GeForce GTX 680M benchmaked on MSI GT70 automatically adjusted to its maximum. If it's getting evening, the brightness is automatically reduced, if 16:07 June 7, 2012 the sensor is active. Re: Lenovo ThinkPad X230 2306-2AU Laptop Review Compared to the rather compact 65 11:53 June 7, 2012 Watt power adapter... Re: HP updates the Pavilion dm1z with Brazos 2.0 11:00 June 7, 2012 Gigabyte shows off 14-inch U2440/U2442 and Carbon X11 notebook 10:51 June 7, 2012 HP updates the Pavilion dm1z with Brazos 2.0 10:48 June 7, 2012 WWDC 2012 will be held next week - Macbook Pro and Macbook Air updates 08:18 June 7, 2012 Review MSI GT60-i789W7H Notebook to top ... the external drive and the Euro coin... Performance

Inside the Dell Latitude D430 there is a processor made by Intel. For a change the Duo U7600 is not very powerful, but, its energy demand and dissipation loss are low. Both of the cores of this ULV-chip (Ultra-Low-Voltage) run at a maximum clock rate of 1.2 GHz and are equipped with 2 MByte L2-Cache and there thermal dissipation power (TDP) is only 10 Watt. For Comparison: A standard mobile processor, one of the Core 2 Duos, can have a TDP of up to 35 Watt. It's for sure that the Dell Latitude D430 runs quietly and quite a long time in battery mode. ... the small size of this Dell The reviewed notebook was equipped with one Gigabyte soldered DDR2 RAM. Nevertheless, the notebook gets obvious. The height is RAM capacity can still be easily enhanced to up to 3 GB, because there is a free memory slot hidden up to 2 cm. The lid very stable and beneath a maintenance opening. Considering the current RAM costs, this is surely a good idea. But, about half a cm thin. Windows XP ran also smoothly with only one GB RAM.

The provided devices contribute to this too. Dell equipped the reviewed notebook with a very fast and very expensive SSD by Samsung, a PZA064. From the very beginning it convinced by high performance, whereas it is absolutely silent. It has a capacity of 64 GB, the transfer rate is nearly constantly as high as 47 MB/s and it accesses any location within a very short delay of 0.3 ms. According to SiSoft Sandra, the transfer rate is still 24 MB/s when writing data. For Comparison: The transfer rate of a standard 1.8 inch hard disk is about 30 MB/s, its access time is mostly clearly above 20ms. Obligatory for business notebooks: the docking port. Your daily work will profit from this. Windows XP is already ready for use 28 seconds after switching the notebook on. Applications start stunningly fast, smaller installations are done very quickly. Even though its processor is clearly slower than the one of other notebooks, we felt that the Dell Latitude D430 resonsives clearly faster than most other mobile – impressive. However, if you decide to do it without SSD, which costs nearly 800 Euro, you need to be aware that the total performance will drop. Standard 1.8 inch hard disks - which are usually used in this notebook - do not ensure high performance.

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Prevents cable spaghetti: The most important ports are at the back side

3DMark 05 388 points

3DMark 06 135 points 1280x800 Help Due to its bright LCD you can also work with the Dell Latitude D430 in the sunshine. 3DMark 06 in comparison HP ProBook 6460b LG645EA (min) 2520M, HD Graphics 3000 3753

... HP ProBook 6460b LG645EA 2520M, HD Graphics 3000 3753

... HP ProBook 6460b LG645EA (max) 2520M, HD Graphics 3000 3753

PCMark 05 2738 points Inside there is a 2 Duo processor by Intel which does not demand a lot of Help energy. Windows XP is the operating system of the reviewed notebook. PCMark 05 in comparison Nokia Booklet 3G (min) Z530, Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 820

... Nokia Booklet 3G Z530, Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 820 Asus Eee PC 1011CX N2600, Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 1631 3600 ... Celsius H710 WXP11DE (max) Contributes to high performance and 2820QM, Quadro 1000M 13842 long battery runtime: The very fast and silent SDD by Samsung. It cost about 800 Euro and has a capacity HD Tune of 64 GB. Samsung PZA064 Transfer Rate Minimum: 45 MB/s

Transfer Rate Maximum: 48.5 MB/s

Transfer Rate Average: 47.2 MB/s

Access Time: 0.3 ms

Burst Rate: 40.7 MB/s The black battery needs most of the CPU Usage: 3.6 % space available at the back side.

Emissions

Loudness

Due to the ULV-CPU by Intel, which does not demand much energy, the small fan does hardly have to run during daily work. Because of an utterly quiet SSD it is completely silent when running office applications – if there weren't an always audible, quiet cheeping. Similar to older Dell notebooks also the reviewed notebook audibly cheeps in idle mode. This might be especially annoying in quiet The charge status of the 42 Wh environments, but, it is not audible in open-plan offices or at the . battery is displayed at once, if you press the according button,... If both cores of the processor have to work hard for a longer time, they need to be actively cooled down by the small fan inside the case. Even in quiet environments the first level is hardly audible. If you continue to demand much power from the notebook, the fan gets audible, but still rather quiet. Unfortunately this noise is always accompanied by an audible clattering, which might be because of a damaged bearing of the fan. Because we didn't have enough time, we couldn't have this problem fixed before recording the noise emissions. Without this defect the Dell Latitude D430 should be even quieter. Despite the damaged bearing it was never annoyingly loud.

Noise Level ...a battery with more capacity is Idle 30.0 / 31.6 / 31.6 dB available for surcharge.

HDD 30.0 dB Load 41.1 / 43.1 dB

30 dB 40 dB 50 dB silent audible loud min: , med: , max: (15 cm distance)

Temperature The Dell Latitude D430 has an Regarding temperature emissions this Dell notebook is not really ideal. Especially when running for optional HSDPA module... a longer time the case gets uncomfortably hot in office mode without running fan and under full load. We measured above 50°C for both scenarios at the bottom side of this small laptop. If you don't work with the notebook on you lap for hours, you won't even realize this. Especially in office mode, it take a long time until the notebook gets that hot, because the maximum is reached after several hours. The temperatures at the top side are comparably alright.

Load

... the appropriate SIM card has to be inserted beneath the battery.

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Maximum: 45.6 °C Maximum: 53.6 °C Average: 33.3 °C Average: 38.1 °C Room Temperature 21.0 °C Speakers

The small speaker above the keyboard does not have a full sound. Alike most speakers built-in in it is hardly sufficient for more than some rather quiet audio warning. Music sounds dull and metallic. We recommend using external speakers or headsets even if you only simple The external DBay is modular. Youtube pictures.

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Battery Runtime

Mobility is one of the most important design aspects of the Dell Latitude D430. It would be worth nothing, if the smallest an lightest notebook could not be run more than two ours in battery mode. Similar Notebooks

Of course the battery runtime of the D430 is longer. The longest runtime measured under Windows XP Laptops with the same GPU was more than 6 hours – indeed this is a good value. This is even more impressing, if you consider and/or Screen Size the relatively small battery with just 42 Wh of the reviewed notebook. This fully-fledged mobile » Review Portégé R500 computer demands clearly below ten Watt energy. How is this possible? -12P Subnotebook Core 2 Duo U7700, 0.979 kg The basis of such is of course the choice of low-energy components. Here the ULV processor and » Review Zepto Notus A12 a chip-set which was optimized for subnotebooks are more important. Furthermore, the SSD hard Subnotebook disk definitely also contributes to energy saving in practice. Finally, also Windows XP is somewhat Mobile A A110, 1.373 kg less demanding than its successor, Vista. » Review Toshiba Portégé R500 Subnotebook But that is still not all. Also that the LAN interface is automatically deactivated, helps saving energy. Core 2 Duo U7700, 0.81 kg » Review Toshiba Portégé R400 As soon as the notebook switches to battery mode, the operating system deactivates the LAN interface Notebook and displays an according message on the screen. If idle the runtime is increased by one and a half Core Duo U2400, 1.72 kg hour because of this. In other tests the difference is still measurably, but less obvious. Unfortunately » Review IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad there are still weaknesses. If the Dell Latitude D430 is launched in battery mode, but, with X60s Notebook Core Duo L2400, 1.31 kg plugged LAN cable, Windows still deactivates the interface. So, you need to manually activate it, if » Review Dell Latitude D420 required. Notebook Core Duo U2400, 1.5 kg Other battery tests prove that the runtime is the lower the higher the demand on calculation power. The » Review HP nc4400 runtime is with brightest display and without network connection still clearly above four hours. If you Notebook use WLAN the battery runtime is still above three and a half hour. Under full load the battery is Core 2 Duo T7400, 1.78 kg Price Comparison empty after two hours. A 9-cell battery with a runtime better than the 6 cell battery of the reviewed notebook is also available. Dell Latitude D430 on Ciao

Current consumption Pro Idle 10.0 / 14.8 / 15.3 Watt + compact and light Load 27.8 / 33.1 Watt + durable magnesium case + workmanship

+ long battery runtime Key: min: , med: , max: + bright, non-reflecting WXGA Battery runtime display Idle (without WLAN, min brightness) 6h 05min + very fast SSD hard disk Surfing with WLAN 3h 38min + fingerprint reader Load (maximum brightness) 2h 01min + docking port + nearly absolutely quiet with to top office applications

Contra Verdict - keyboard yields The Dell Latitude D430 proved to be an excellent companion for - low calculation power travels. It is very light, looks elegant, and is made of high-quality - notebook cheeps materials which feel nice to the touch. A Battery runtime of up to six - high temperature emissions hours makes working without interruption also possible during long trips. The bright display can also be used outdoors without problems. Furthermore, it is possible to connect to your organization's network via UMTS nearly always and from everywhere. Dell Latitude D430 Subnotebook The equipment settles nearly all claims important for a business notebooks. Due to fingerprint reader and TPM chip the data on the hard disk are reliable protected against illegal access. An optional docking station combined with external optical drive ensures user-friendliness in the office and at home. Rating

Regarding performance this small subnotebook is of course not that powerful as most other notebooks. Dell Latitude D430 10/10/2007 The 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo processor by Intel is sufficiently powerful office applications. A super Kristian Kübeck fast SSD by Samsung makes smooth working possible. This light notebook, which only weighs 1.5 kg Workmanship 87% was obviously not designed for complex picture retouching or even video editing. Keyboard 82% Mouse 84% The D430 has only little flaws. From our point of view the major points of critique are the clattering Connectivity 85% keyboard and the relatively high temperature emissions. In turn the D430 works nearly utterly quiet. Weight 94% A D430 with reviewed equipment costs about 1800 Euro excluding VAT and shipment if you buy in Battery 85% virtual shops. Without 64 GB SSD it costs only nearly 1.000 Euro excluding VAT. However, prices Display 85% of Dell notebooks fluctuate heavily. E.g., when we started our review the external drive costed Games Performance 29% Application Performance 88% above 200 Euro. In the meanwhile it belongs to the standard equipment of this notebook. Temperature 67% Noise 92% Impression 95% Average 81% 85% Subnotebook * Weighted Average * Weighted Average Subnotebook: Workmanship 8%, Keyboard 10%, Mouse 10%, Connectivity

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4%, Weight 16%, Battery 12%, Display 8%, Games Performance 2%, Application Performance 4%, Temperature 8%, Noise 8%, Impression 10%

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