Dell Latitude CPx

Pros: fairly lightweight, good LCD
Cons: hate the keyboard and mouse layout

I absolutely hate the keyboard/mouse positioning and feel. I'm having problems with my battery not charging. Sometimes when I "Restart" with W2K, my machine shuts down instead or rebooting. At times when I reboot, I can't get the machine to...

Pros: Good value for money as a second-hand laptop
Cons: Quite big and heavy, a lot of problems after a couple of years

Hello all,

Continuing my reviews about Dell laptops, I’ve decided to write one about Latitude CPx. A laptop which looks at first glance quite powerful. It is a little bit old, but you might think there is a good value for money as a...

Pros: None
Cons: keyboard, pointers, hard drive, service

A long time ago, my HP 486 desktop was replaced with a Dell p120. After 2 days, I screamed for the HP back, and developed a bad opinion of Dell.

Flash forward many years...

My company took my Compaq laptop, and gave me a Dell...

Pros: Dual Pointing Devices, Removable Drives
Cons: Durability

This laptop was handed to me when I started a new job, and in the 13 months I've owned it, I have put a lot of hours of wear and tear on it. First off, while I love that it accommodates both Trackpoint users and Touchpad users, Dell really needs to take...

Pros: Powerful, expandable, interchage-able parts, good quality/battery life
Cons: None come to mind

Gorgeous screen, varied options for interchange-able bays (include batteries, hard-drives, floppy, CD, DVD, CDRW, zip, Superdisk, more...).

Accessories are also plentiful and of high-quality. Case is rugged & durable, plentiful...

Pros: Speed, Power Use
Cons: Flimsy, heavy, win2k incompatible docking station, bad support, touchpad randomly clicks

I've used this as my business laptop for about a year. I haven't treated it roughly - it's mostly stayed in the same place. Still, the thing is falling apart and I'm just counting the seconds till it won't boot up. The PC itself is fairly quick, but...

Pros: Lightweight, highly functional, interchangeable drives.
Cons: None come to mind

Were the Borg a reality instead of a product of Gene Roddenberry’s imagination, I suspect I would have been willingly assimilated long ago just to have the latest in computer technology hard-wired into my head. Since that’s not possible, I have...

Pros: Lots of memory
Cons: Sloooooow, heavy, poor design

This was the laptop my company provided to me about 8 months ago. While I've had success with Dell's products in the past, this laptop is definitely an under-achiever.

First, its slow. I'm sure this is due in part to the operating system I'm...

Pros: Modular CPx line, TV out, price quality tradeoff
Cons: shoddy keyboard, buttons break

Having worked with Dells at my previous employer, I was happy when I found that a Dell Latitude was one of the supported configurations at business school. I tote this sucker around with me everyday and it keeps working.

This model came with...

Pros: Small,compact.
Cons: very slow for a pentium III. CD ROM problems

I bought the Dell Latitude CPX as my first notebook computer and bought a Toshiba within two months to replace it. With a name like Dell you would think this to be a great system. At first I did too but soon found out how slow it was. The new Pentium...

Pros: Sleek Design, Speedy, Excellent Screen, Ease of use, Excellent Accesories, Great Battery Life.
Cons: Price (hits the $3800 mark), Could be thinner as the IBM T20 or X series (about 4 pencils thick!!)

I have the following specs:

- Latitude CPxJ-650GT model
- Mobile Pentium III-650MHz with Intel Speedstep Techonology
- Integrated ATI Rage Mobility M1 AGP Video, with 8Meg Video RAM
- 256MB RAM option
- Integrated 12GB Hard...

Pros: hardware, support, features, compatibility
Cons: touchpad sensitivity

I've had one of these CPx's since last September (it's assigned to me by my work). Anyway, it's a great laptop. I've always been a pretty big fan of Dell from a business standpoint (they take care of you); but these Latitudes take the cake.
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Pros: Mobility, power, battery time
Cons: Plugin accessories

Quality is hard to find these days, but Dell has come through with a laptop that fit my budget and my needs nicely. As a student at the University of Texas a laptop is a major aide to my scholastic life. The Dell laptop has proved time and time again...

Pros: solid construction, multiple pointing devices
Cons: large and heavy

The Setup
I have used a Dell Latitude CPx at work for the last couple of months. The machine that I was given to work with was a 650 Mhz model with 256 megs of RAM and an 18 gig hard drive. It was running Windows NT4 and has a Xircom 10/100...

Pros: It is fast
Cons: Very unreliable

I got my Dell Latitude CPxJ in August, and since then, it has been rebooting all by itself almost once every day. Dell had sent out a technician to my place... but to no avail. Barely a few minutes after he walked out, the laptop rebooted again even as I...