It’s not a bad-looking machine either. With a silver body edged with iBook-esque white, it’s clearly aimed at the sort of home that’s been finished with burnished oak floors. It’s well built too, but it does feel every gram of its 2.85kg weight and, despite a 39mm height, it’s also bulky: this isn’t a notebook we’d choose to take on our travels every day.
There is a full 11cm from the front of the unit to the keyboard and on this model it is 88 keys the alpha and numeric keys are full size with only the function keys being reduced. Slightly left of centre is a rather nice trackpad. Behind the keyboard are two buttons on/off and media along with five LED's and the hinge area that shows through when the case is shut has three further LED's..
We test a huge selection of Centrino Duo notebooks costing £850 and above in this month's Labs, but the Dell Inspiron 6400 sneaks well under the radar: at £629, it's the cheapest Centrino Duo notebook we've seen. And that's despite a 2GHz T2500 Core processor and a 16:10 widescreen with a 1,680 x 1,050 resolution.
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