Review on 💻 Dell D620 Laptop with Duo Core and Windows XP by Jason Franco

I really give this one 3 1/2 stars. I'll tell you the pros and cons, as well as what the computer is designed for and what it is not designed for. I wanted a new online marketing laptop I am doing as I thought my Toshiba A205 had sold out. ABCcomputers delivery was quick and everything they said about the computer was solid information. I was ready to go back to Windows XP with Dell, but decided to install Vista instead. To my surprise, the battery and charger worked very well, lasting over 2 hours and there were very few cosmetic scratches. The only thing I can forget about the computer is how dark the screen was. I have my doubts that all Dell D620 screens are that dim, but it always seems to be on sleep mode to save battery life, just like a regular laptop. It's a bit annoying but I think I can live with that and I can say it was the biggest problem I've ever had with a computer. ABCcomputers described it as a powerful laptop despite having 1GB of RAM, a 1.65GHz dou-core processor and only 80GB of hard drive space. To my surprise, it was a workhorse! Here's the twist: I swapped out a Seagate 80GB hard drive for a Dell 128GB SSD and was able to run about 10 apps simultaneously, including 3 web browsers, with hardly any app interfering with the performance of the others. Here's another twist; When I found out what was wrong with my Toshiba (a newer than Dell refurbished computer), I switched the SSD to a Toshiba with 2GB of RAM and a 1.85GHz dual-core processor. In this experiment, I found that applications sometimes loaded a few seconds slower than immediately, like on the D620. In fact, I experienced freezing of applications that I had to close in Toshiba. This never happened when the SSD was in my Dell D620! I kept the Toshiba SSD anyway as it's light and widescreen compared to the Dell. The SSD also works quite well in the Toshiba. The computer works very well with the original Seagate hard drive. I really don't know what more to ask for from a 2006 Dell Refab. This Dell was primarily focused on a business computer, so the word processing is perfect. I was planning to upgrade the Dell even further by adding 4GB of RAM since it only has 1GB. First, I focused on making the backlight brighter, since Fn + UP arrow key doesn't help. I'm sure it will cost at least $100+ and right now that's too big an investment in that extra computer. At the same time, the computer can only use 3.5GB of 4GB of RAM due to BIOS lock or the 32-bit operating system you are using. Both are the case, but I'm not 100% sure. The D620 isn't a lightweight, even though the screen is only 14 inches wide. They've done it pretty solidly with the Strike Zone feature, which likely helps protect your hardware and CPU from damage. This is not a gaming PC at all. You must have a graphics card/brand new motherboard installed to recognize the newer Microsoft game. Forgive the players, you have to pay another hundred dollars if you want to play Skyrim and your other favorite games. Gaming wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary anyway, as the screen brightness isn't top-notch or charming. To summarize my personal story, I now have an extra laptop that I will probably just store files on like music for I Tunes and maybe a video file in the future and maybe surf the web. I think it's a good PC, but I'd like to know what others think of their Latitude backlight. Comment because I want to know. It's a decent computer but I think it would cost $200 if my eyes didn't hurt lol. That issue aside, I would recommend someone to buy this computer and make it a supercomputer like I did.