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 enlarge | Brand: Dell
Category: Personal Computer
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 2066
Hardware Type: Notebook Computer
Platform: Windows 2000
Media: Personal Computers
CPU Manufacturer: Dell
CPU Speed: 1.2
CPU Type: Intel Pentium III
Processors: 1
System Memory: 128
Memory Type: SDRAM
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Hard Drive Size: 20
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon Mobility
Graphics RAM: 16
Native Resolution: 1024-by-768
Modem: 56 Kbps
Network Interface: 10-/100-Mbps Ethernet
Free Memory Slots: 2
Includes Software: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10.2
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 12.5 x 1.5
Model: Latitude C610
UPC: 835942000012
EAN: 0835942000012
ASIN: B000ACAWW4
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 Something Wonderful November 6, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
"But now and then he'll do something wonderful!" is a lyric from a love song in The King and I, musical and movie. A computer is rarely beloved; I have had a number of painful experiences with computers, over the last twenty years. I've felt betrayed, and fooled, and of course puzzled and baffled and hurt. That is not the case with the Dell Latitude C610, which I purchased refurbished in June 2004. Since then, Dantigone--ok, so he's actually a she for the purpose of network names--has been an amazing find. First of all, it comes with the Windows 2000 Professional Operating System. Immediately before that I was using a Compaq computer that was a good machine, but was running Windows ME, which locked up about 4 times a day, and had to be restarted. I restart Windows 2000 fairly often, between installing stuff and reconfiguring this or that, but when I do, it's on my terms, not because the computer has locked up. Second, and most valuable to me, the problems I've had with this computer have all been solvable, and when they are solved it's "something wonderful."
For a year and a half, now, I have been running the Latitude almost non-stop. I've traveled from Philadelphia to Leiden in the Netherlands with Dantigone in tow; took it along for hour-long bus rides three times a week for a semester, with a few hard bumps along the way; had it brought to me in the hospital last spring, and read several books in e-book format while I was there; and generally operated it 14 hours a day, with virus scanning, backup, spyware scanning, and other automated utilities running overnight.
It runs hot. As something of a correction to that, I have a wrist rest under the back three inches of the keyboard at all times. It's only a machine; it won't last forever, though I treat it as if I expect that. This past week, the display suddenly for no apparent reason turned a disturbing aqua, instead of white, and everything gray was tinged with pink. I thought it had died; a new or refurbished screen would cost almost as much as a new/refurbished C610. Yet the computer part was fine, I could work in MS Word if I picked the blue screen option, and I could attach an external monitor for working on the web. And then I packed it up to take to work, jostled it a little, then set it up at work, all without turning it off, just running on the battery. And something wonderful happened once more; the white whites and gray grays were back!
I give the C610 five stars for constancy, and the occasional wonderful surprise. I'm glad Amazon has some of them to sell right now.
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