Dell Latitude vs Lenovo ?

Hi,

i am a .Net programmer and i'm going to buy a notebook as my old laptop (HP Dv2000) is not working anymore.

i want to buy a lenovo thinkpad but Dell Latitude e6510 is very interesting to me.

what i want from my laptop is long life (over 4years) with work everyday (15-20 hours).

is latitude good enough for this usage ?
how can it be compare with lenovo thinkpads ?

 

The later model Latitudes feel much more solid and well built than recent Thinkpads. The quality on both is going to be about the same but the price will be a bit better on the Dell.

 

The only reason I would recommend a dell business over lenovo now is the fact that they removed the roll cage for the screen. Had this thread started back a year ago I would have said choose whichever you think looked cooler, but the rollcage issue is a really big no no and took themselves down a peg.

 

My Latitude D830 gets 14-15 hours of usage a day, for the past 3 years. Other than a broken hinge, nothing else went wrong with it that can be blamed on Dell (yes, 2 HDDs failed...but Dell doesn't manufacture those!).

The newer ones just don't seem quite as solid though.

After what I've seen of the E6400/E6500...quite frankly, if my laptop died, I think I'd probably just eBay another D830 for cheap and run with that for a while. Lol.

 

Also, you can't beat prices in the Dell Outlet.

 

Well, if you enjoy used, refurbished and returned computers, the Dell Outlet is an option.

 

Just because IBM lost a huge amount of money on its PC business doesn't mean the products were of superior quality. I know there's a myth of IBM superiority out there, but it's just that, a myth.

Pre-Lenovo, the ThinkPad line was IBM's last stand in the PC hardware market, after having exited the consumer sector and having lost money on PCs for years.

IBM typically built quality notebooks, but had a very hard time keeping up with the hardware cycle, which was much more important at the time than it is today.

IBM might not have been able to sell PC hardware for a profit, but it was very good at selling expensive services to large enterprises. Back during the tech bubble, a large, technologically backward company could spend tens, perhaps hundreds of millions with IBM. Even today, IBM is still around, primarily as a provider of services to large enterprises. IBM probably should have gotten out of the PC hardware business 10 years sooner, but the ThinkPad line was probably neccessary to make those huge deals with huge companies, even though IBM probably lost money on every laptop.

Today, Lenovo is still milking the ThinkPad brand, although they're probably making far money money on hardware than IBM ever did. I personally think that Lenovo is probably on par with Acer, Asus, MSI and Clevo.

 

If you're concerned about durability, the standard 3 year warranty on the Dell E6x10 series is a more promising indicator than the standard 1 year warranty on the competing Lenovo Thinkpads. The all metal case on the E6x10 is another major selling point, since it acts like a heat sink.

 

First off that's not fair to the Dell Outlet Store because many here including myself have purchased refurbed Dell notebooks from the Outlet Store and truth be told you couldn't tell the difference between a refurbed and a brand new one unless you flipped the laptop over and saw the green sticler on the bottom of the machine. Some have not been so lucky but you are entitled to a generous return policy.

You can also buy 'previously new' as I have also done and they usually come with a nice discount and they look new, because they are new.

 

I've only got brand new computers from the outlet. Meh.

 

I would say that t400/500 series and before they were on par with dell business. But now I dont think I would get a thinkpad anymore. After what my t400 took and kept on working I do not see a t410 doing the same.