The Dell Latitude 6430u is a solid laptop with magnesium alloy chassis, which allows for thinner form factor. Its ease and accessibility and strong build come at a cost of more weight and larger size. Compared to current Ultrabooks in the market, the 643u is noticeably heavier and thicker.
There are only status LEDs on the front, while on the rear, owners can use HDMI out port and eSATA/USB port. There is a WLAN switch on left, as well as one USB 3.0 port, audio combo jack, power socket and VGA out port. There’s another USB 3.0 port on the right along with Kensington Lock socket and Gigabit Ethernet. The backlit chiclet keyboard has rectangular keys, which appear taller than keys on average laptop models. Typing experience should be acceptable, although key travel is a bit shallow.
The 14” (1366 x 768) display has anti-glare coating, which should improve viewing angles somewhat. The Intel Core i5 3427U is an ULV processor and it is clocked between 800 MHz and 1.8GHz based on load requirements. The Dell Latitude 6430u has a 128GB mSATA SSD as the main storage unit and Intel HD 4000 GPU, which offers basic multimedia performance.
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