Dell Latitude D820 review over at CNet

CNet has their review of the D820 up, scored a decent 7.9:

http://reviews.cnet.com/Dell_Latitude_D820/4505-3121_7-31792100-2.html?tag=nav

It has a 4-pin firewire port and both PCMCIA and Expresscard slots compared to the smaller D620 which lacks firewire and only a PCMCIA slot.

Edit: PCMag has their review up as well and give it 4/5. The NVS 120M scored a tiny bit lower than the X1400 in the T60 in their 3DMark05, Doom3 and Splinter Cell tests.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1943316,00.asp

 

Pretty good review thanks

 

Tell me it's early and I'm blind... The 820 does NOT have a dedicated GPU option?? Ugh... I've wasted time waiting to buy over an HP nc8230!

 

No no, there's going to be an option for a dedicated GPU. The nVidia Quadro NVS 120M that's tested in the PCMag review. It should be the workstation card based off the 7400go. The 1924 score in 3DMark05 is consistent with the 7400go found on the Sony SZ. It's not yet available on Dell's website though.

 

uhh.... actually the quadro 120M seems to be comparable to the x1400 in all aspects. the lattitude 820 scored significantly lower than the ibm t60 in the 3dmark05 "native" test and in the splinter cell "native" test because the native resolution of the lattitude was much higher at 1920x1200 as opposed to the native resolution of the ibm t60, which is 1400x1050.

 

wow I've waited for this laptop so long and dell decides to not give it a good dedicated graphics card. Now they have like 6 core duo laptops and all of them lack good graphics GFG!

 

Oh yah, you're right, I missed the 'native' part. I thought it was weird there was such a big drop. Still, I'd expect the 7400go to perform worse with AA than the X1400 since the 7400go only a 64-bit memory bus.

 

All the new Latitudes and Precision workstations have been given dedictated graphic card options already... of course if you want a gaming class graphics device, look to the XPS M170 or upcoming XPS M1710 for that.

 

Siriusde
You can save a bunch of money if you want something with dedicated graphics by not going the Lattitude route. I think of the Lattitude, T60, T43, etc. as purely business laptops that are generally not good for gaming. I've never understood why someone would want a discrete graphics that eats battery power in a business laptop.