The full-sized keyboard has a good feel. The system comes with a pointing stick, touchpad, and a set of mouse buttons for each. To improve durability, Dell has wrapped this package in a magnesium alloy exoskeleton. The hard drive is shock-mounted, but it offers no active hard-drive protection, such as an accelerometer. The keyboard is spill-resistant.

Dell Latitude D620 come with a 1.83-GHz Intel Core Duo T2400 processor and 1GB of RAM. Battery life from the included six-cell battery was a good 4 hours and 25 minutes. The 80GB hard drive is ample for a portable and 8X DVD+RW/DVD-RW drive. D620 has no memory card slots, but you get 4 USB ports.

A 14.1-inch widescreen display with 16:9 aspect ratio is ideal for frequent travelers. Dell D620 have higher-resolution screens with 1280 x 800-pixel resolution maximum. The D620 offered excellent performance in our EV-DO speed tests, averaging 498.4 Kbps. The wireless broadband option is in addition to the system’s standard 802.11a/g Wi-Fi radio.

You’ll find a fingerprint reader and an integrated Smart Card reader to limit access. D620 comes preloaded with the Embassy Trust Suite by Wave Systems. The suite handles multilevel authentication (password protection, a fingerprint reader, and a Smart Card slot), passwordn management for end users, secure e-mail (through TPM), as well as PKI support.

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