Big deja-vu moment! 2.5 years ago, after buying a MSI Wind U100, only to be used as travelcompanion, I ended up migrating from a ‘kick ass’ workstation to a low end Intel Atom N270 netbook! Earlier this week same thing. Although I was in the planning phase of building a bigger and better Workstation. I suddenly found myself migrating from a dual screen desktop workstation to a recently bought 12″ Dell D430 ‘business netbook’ running Hackintosh! And was curious about a possible future upgrade path …
So my eye caught the Dell D620 and D630. Both models are a little bigger and heavier (2.27KG instead of 1.2KG), however the D6xx series does have a 14″ (instead of 12″) screen, built-in ODD, better batterylife, twice the amount of USB ports (4 instead of 2), and sporting a better CPU.
The D430 / D620 / D630 models most commonly used CPUs are U7600 1.2GHz / T2400 1.66GHz / T5500 1.66GHz / T7250 2GHz and score — according to CPUbenchmark.net — respectively 687 / 883 / 926 / 1102 points.
To get back to the topic title: Am I going to sell my barely 1 month old D430? Nope! It’s a definitely a keeper! But a second ‘hobby DELL’ is nice! Definitely the D630 with 4GB RAM and 30-120GB SSD.
Update June 2012:
Update 1st July 2012: D620 as part of my “Digital Nomad Virtual Office July 2012”, however it’s indeed going to be replaced by a D630 with 1440×900 resolution and 4GB of RAM preferably.
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Communities I have been 'hanging out' regularly over the past two decades.
- Nomadlist.com since 2022-04
- Empire.Kred since 2021-07
- Karma-Lab.com since 2019-01
- Invision Community since 2018-05
- Insanely Mac since 2018-02
- eGPU.io since 2017-04
- Tech Inferno since 2016-08
- forum.VestaCP.com since 2016
- WordPress.org since 2015-12
- Couch Surfing since 2014
- BitcoinTalk.org since 2014-03
- Warrior Forum since 2013-07
- Empire Avenue since 2013
forum.OSXLatitude.comsince 2011-08- Envato (i.e. CodeCanyon) since 2011-07
- TripAdvisor since 2010-09
MoneyMakerGroup.comsince 2007-03- HardWare.info since 2003-08
- SynthForum.NL since 2001-11
- gathering.tweakers.net since 2000-11
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- EarnWithEarnie.io since 2022
- EarnWithEarnie.net since 2018
- BestProfitsTeam.com since 2017
- CycleClubMembers.com since 2015
- BestSTIFORPteam.com 2013-2021