It’s been a while since I drooled over a laptop - figuratively speaking of course! In fact, it’s been a while since I even blogged about a laptop (actually only less than 10 days!).

“The Dell Latitude E6400 Laptop is a total revamp of Dell’s business laptop line“, according to CNET in their review, and the rest of their summary “Bottom Line” reads “(The Dell)Latitude E6400 offers Intel’s latest Centrino 2 mobile platform and introduces a brushed-metal design that works at home or office, but the real highlight here is the long battery life.”

Long Battery life and a good-looking brushed-metal design sounds good, but what about the rest of the Dell Latitude E6400 Laptop’s specs?

The cheapest configurable CPU is the Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 (2.26GHz, 3M L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB). 2GB of RAM is standard, but that can be bumped up to 8GB for an extra $1000 - that’s a rather expensive. Since this is a business laptop it offers the option of Windows XP - 2GB should be fine with this processor, unless you plan to do a lot of multitasking or use memory intensive applications. For Windows Vista 4GB would be better than 2GB. Ah, it also has a backlit keyboard!

There are two downsides to this laptop which should be kept in mind. Although it is highly configurable, the performance is still just average. Also, at 5.7 pounds it is a bit heavy for a laptop with a 14 inch screen.

That said, it does appear durable (but not drool-able).