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3 out of 5
The Latitude D600 is designed for users who require maximum performance in a mainstream notebook. Even with its thin & light design, the D600 doesn't skimp on performance offering the ideal blend of power and efficiency using the Intel® Pentium® M processors and the ATI® Mobility Radeon 9000 video chipset. The D600 offers Intel Pentium Mobile Technology featuring the Pentium M processor, Wireless MiniPCI card. B grade may have screen impressions, red tint at boot and other defects such as hair line cracks, missing feet and/or doors. ....read more
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Not bad for a budget laptop
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I ordered a refurbished D600 from Dell Financial Services 3 years ago. It was a good solid laptop while I had it. Mine had 1gb of RAM and a CD/DVDROM (no burner). Mine also did not come with an XP CD or any recovery disc at all. I had an old Windows 2000 CD, so I loaded that. I tried upgrading it to Vista Home Basic. It was way slow, even with 1gb of RAM. I ran Server 2003 and Server 2008 on it for a while, to study for certification exams. I also ran Fedora and Ubuntu Linux for a while. It even ran a hackintosh version of OS X fairly well. I think the hard drive started going bad after I reformatted it so many times. I replaced the hard drive with a spare 20gb drive. This drive was tpo small for Vista, Office and all the latest patches. I went back to Windows 2000, because it was small and ran the best. I never tried it with XP, because Dell did not include the XP CD with my purchase. This was a great laptop for learning different operating systems in a test environment.
I did have a few problems with this laptop. First, the CD/DVD drive had problems booting from CDs after a while. DVDs seemed to boot ok. Second, the hard drive starget going bad. I think I just wore it out. It was easy enough to replace myself. Third, way slow with Windows Vista. I agree with the other reviewers who said it’s too slow to be a gaming computer.
My biggest complaint with the D600, is that it’s so darn heavy. It weighs almost 5 1/2 lbs, or over 6 lbs if you include the charger. That’s just too heavy to lug around when I’m traveling. I sold it to a friend for a very good price and ordered a Dell Mini 9 netbook to take traveling. The 2.2 lb Netbook is way more convenient to take traveling. By the way, most Netbooks have a 1.6ghz processor compared to the 1.4ghz processor in the D600. Sometimes I miss the 14 inch screen, but the Netbooks small size, lightweight and portablity more than make up for it.
Buyers Please Beware of what you are purchasing
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Buyers, please pay particular attention to the 5 star review of this computer. I know the price looks good but if it is not able to perform to your expectations, you’re wasting your money. First the hard drive is very small in comparison to todays standards. Programs get larger with each new version requiring more space on your hard drive. Downloading pictures and music will quickly eat up the 40 gig hard drive. If you are just looking for a computer to type documents, log on to the internet to do minimal surfing read email……then this is an okay buy. But don’t expect it to perform with the high tech games that are available…….the processor speed is slow and ram is only 1/2 a gig. Go to HP’s or Dell’s website and read the specs for their basic computers that will accommodate web surfing, downloading pictures and music and gaming.
Awesome!!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This laptop is so awesome. I’ve always had a desktop, so I’m excited that I was able to purchase a laptop at such an inexpensive price. First of all, it’s advertised as having 512MB RAM and a 40GB hard drive. Well, I got 1G of RAM and a 60 GB hard drive. Secondly, it works so well, as if it’s new. And thirdly, for this to have been a refurbished computer, it looks good with very little to no scratches. Several people’s comments have not been to pleasing, but I would blame the seller, not the laptop. I didn’t purchase the cheapest one. I read all of the sellers’ comments and chose the one I thought would give me an honest buy. I am very happy with my purchase.
Product good but Do not buy it from BRAVTEK
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Decent product however I bought the laptop from BRAVTEK and I got cheated on the deal. He sold me a defective product and refused to fix it. Be careful shopping for laptops and by all means avoid the above vendor.
Great Laptop!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is a great laptop for the price. It functions beautifully for basic use (school, work, surfing the web, etc.). I have had absolutely no trouble with mine, and would highly recommend this product to everyday users.
I’ve seen a couple of bad reviews simply because users purchased this computer with the intent to make it their “gaming” computer, and then were disappointed with the outcome. Check the specs and your game requirements first. If you truly want a gaming computer, you probably shouldn’t be looking at Laptops in the first place.
It’s a great computer at a reasonable price. If you just need something for work, school, and surfing the web, it’s perfect.
sellers= good…products= fair
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Its not a bad laptop at all, my only disapointment is that it wont play dvd’s, a file or program is missing. This was a letdown because I take long bus trips and wanted various ways to spend my time.
It was a low price, In a way I wish I would have waited and got a more up to date laptop, but hey its still new to me.
It is rather sluggish at times, it could have something to do with hot spots.
I think I was exspecting more, but hey it was only $240.00 and it is 6 yrs old
at the time I was desperate, and you get what you pay for.
one good thing it arrived fast, and I was able to track it.
Functionable Laptop
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I got this thing used a few years ago; now, I’m a 16 year-old, and my primary use for computers is writing, storing my photos, and gaming. This laptop is pretty decent (especially for the price) for the first two of my purposes, but for gaming, it was way, way below par. We had to buy numerous upgrades for it to even run World of Warcraft on top of my pictures (they take up a lot of memory).
BOTTOM LINE: If you’re looking for a low-key laptop and you don’t need much memory, this is a nice little piece of hardware.
WARNING: DELL WILL NOT HONOR THEIR WARRANTY!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I ordered a Dell Inspiron laptop 1 1/2 years ago and it worked great until recently. The screen went black and the system would not start. Turned out that the video card had failed.
I contacted Dell customer support to activate my next business day warranty and after more than a week I have gotten nowhere with them. My claim has been “escalated” twice with the same excuses and refusal to fix the problem. They claim they have no video cards in stock and I will have to wait 2-3 weeks for a replacement card, 2-3 weeks for a loaner system, or 2-3 weeks for a replacement system — basically my NEXT DAY warranty is anything but.
I explained that this is a mission critical system and a 2-3 week delay is unacceptable given the high price I paid for the next day warranty. I offered to take another make or model of graphics card and even offered to go buy the card myself if the agreed to pay for it.
They refused to help in any way. So, I am left with a useless laptop for 2-3 weeks until it becomes convenient for them to honor the warranty. I will never buy another Dell product again and recommend that others who are not technically experienced with fixing computers or that need a “mission critical” system that they look elsewhere because Dell cannot be relied upon to fix broken systems in a timely manner.
Not so great
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
My laptop arrived with obvious signs of use, a non-functioning AC adapter, and no frills whatsoever… such as installation disks or user manuals. All you get is the laptop and a power cable (that didn’t work, in my case). It was cheap, though.
Dell Latitude D600
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is a fantastic laptop, It is a business machine and it has everything you need to conduct business on the road.
I highly recommend this laptop.
Thomas Gloudemans
A1 Computer Serices
not to bad….but not overly good either.
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Sluggish performance, not the good to type with (i use one for work) and for god’s sake have a mouse becasue the track pad is from the pit’s of hell itself as with most dell laptops.
Dell Laptop
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
My daughter was quite surprised to get her laptop computer. She started using it right away and now I can’t get her off of it.