The Latitude D531 is the latest AMD based notebook from Dell. It has a magnesium alloy shell, which enhances its durability .It comes with an in built security chip but we missed having a fingerprint reader or webcam, which are pretty common in notebooks of its class these days .It has an 80 GB hard disk, which may be a slight concern but by paying a few extra bucks you customize your notebook at dell’s website. In performance, it scored 2870 in PC Mark05 .which makes it worthy for business applications .Even in Business Winstone it scored 31.8,which is good enough for note books in this price bracket and more than the likes of HCL ,T 2250.Intex challenger 012DW.The laptop ships with win XP by default ,but Dell claims it to be Vista ready .However, when we tried running vista on it, everything worked smoothly ,except Aero ,In Battery Mark it gave a backup time of 2.52 hr, which is good for business travelers and should suffice their needs.
It’s a good performer for business users, but we expected a few more feature such as a fingerprint reader and webcam for this price.



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