Dell Latitude 3330
If someone tells you ?Dude! You?re gettin? a Dell!? in reference to the Latitude 3330, run away. Dell makes plenty of good computers, but this isn?t one of them.
Admittedly, the Latitude 3330 didn?t burst into flames or poke anyone?s eye out during our testing. But you have many better choices in the same price range. Though one of the five budget notebooks in this roundup (HP?s Pavilion TouchSmart 11z-e000) delivered even lower performance than this one?probably because it has an even less powerful CPU than the Dell?s 1.5GHz Intel Core i3-2375m?the HP also costs $110 less than the Latitude 3330 and has a ten-point touchscreen. The Dell?s 13.3-inch,�1366-by-768-pixel display doesn?t support touch, though its trackpad does support simple gestures such as two-finger scrolling.
ROBERT CARDINThe Latitude has only 4GB of DDR/1600 memory, but an open and readily accessible slot accommodates a second module to double its memory. Its puny 320GB, 5400-rpm hard drive is similarly easy to access and upgrade. And this is one of only two notebooks in our roundup to include a removable and upgradable battery (the other one again being the HP Pavilion).
One component that won?t be easy to swap out is the Dell Wireless 1504 single-band (2.4GHz), 1x1, 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter, which delivers a physical link rate of just 150 megabits per second. The laptop doesn?t provide Bluetooth support, either. But it does have a gigabit ethernet interface.
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