The Toughest Looking Laptop You've Ever Seen: Dell Latitude XFR E6420

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This Dell XFR E6420 makes your typical enterprise ThinkPad look like a MacBook when it comes to durability. Though pretty impractical for daily use, just the looks of this 10lb testosterone slab sparks at least a little curiosity in all of us. Today we are going to look at what makes this Mil-spec laptop one of the most durable machines we have ever looked at on the channel, and possibility one of the most durable laptops ever mass produced.
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6 авг 2024

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Комментарии : 77

@LysandraJA 3 года назад

Friendly predator missile inbound.

@stonent 3 года назад

A guy at work had one of these and he broke the handle, so he found a piece of steel chain from a fence and replaced the handle with it for more bad-assery.

@grippysockgf 3 года назад

Omg it's been awhile, hope all is well

@Lurker1979 3 года назад

I have a similar kind of laptop. The Panasonic Toughbook around this age. I was lucky price wise. It was surplus at a computer recycling place.

@cosmicrider5898 3 года назад

So im not the only one who has seen a laptop this tough... Hmm seems like clickbait..

@corey7219 3 года назад

I still have a fully working Dell Latitude E6400 ATG that I saved from a surplus store a few years ago.

@Mr_L1n4x 3 года назад

Man I love rugged/thick laptops, there's something about them that screams "I am indestructible" I got a thinkpad T430 from a friend that recycles office laptops and I fell in love with it and I wouldnt mind have one of these rugged laptops, a shame they're so expensive but older thinkpads get the job done ;)

@thetechstop3875 3 года назад

I worked for a data sanitization center that had gov contracts. Had a ton of these roll in. I've been inside of too many of these to count! Screen changes are hell due to the waterproof adhesive. Decent machine, ill stick with my tough book however.

@temetka 3 года назад

These are awesome laptops. Amazing how they've held their value over the years.

@creativsync9261 3 года назад

I have waited for this video since the livestream you did.

@praneethalva571 3 года назад

Dell Latitudes are simply awesome and very easy to convert into snappy daily drivers. I have a Latitude e5420 with 8 GB RAM, a Kingston A400 480GB SSD and an i5-2520m CPU. It can handle all the multitasking that I do as a student. I installed Windows Vista Business (it's time to revisit Vista before it's too late) and it runs blazing fast. Also, I love your videos. Please make one on the Latitude e5420 showing the upgrade process and a Windows Vista installation walkthrough on the SSD.

@thedungeondelver 3 года назад

As it has an Expresscard port, you could connect it to a more modern GPU with a dock. But of course that kills not only the sealed and rugged aspect but any sort of portability...at that point an SFF PC with low profile GPU and a portable 15" monitor are just as useful.

@harshitgupta6856 3 года назад

The penny hack is genius

@rfcdgaf 5 месяцев назад

Excellent video, matched perfectly with a Toyota

@W1ldTangent 3 года назад

I've been bouncing around a theory in my head for a couple days now and so far I cannot seem to find anything that would suggest me that it wouldn't work... E6430 models used the exact same case and motherboard design/layout as their older E6420 brethren...which share theirs with the XFR... so I believe an E6430 (standard or ATG) motherboard can be installed in an E6420 XFR case. I need to find out, for science.

@jessematherly5617 2 года назад

I'm looking to do a performance swap, so I too would like to know.

@atrox1722 3 года назад

Hey, great video! But how´s the music playing during the benchmarks named?

@atrox1722 3 года назад

Found it! It's named Alone by Jody P Keller

@blakerala5732 3 года назад

HE'S ALIVE

@datasoftinc.8788 3 года назад

please make more vids like this

@ryuken8112 3 года назад

LOL the part they drove by it as 9f they're implying it can survive getting run over.

@Nitrilogent 2 года назад

I have absolutely no need for it but I want it.

@Teksers 3 года назад

That Crisys limitation must be a thing from EA. At one point I upgraded the GPU in my PC and when I wanted to play a game on Origin it said that it was a new device and I needed to wait 24 hours untill I can play any game on Origin that I owned.

@LevelUp_ErikJ 3 года назад

Got to screw around with one of these in my IT class, and they are seriously tanky. They were used by the automotive class on the campus.

@gavinvales8928 3 года назад

Perfection

@KrissBartlett 3 года назад

Hey i would love one of them and what is happing to your land ? hope you will show us more of it please!!!! poor laptop you trying to kill it i think that was your land we saw near the end

@RoyHess666 3 года назад

0:16 You've missed it!

@medleysa 2 года назад

The trackpad is poor likely because it’s a resistive instead of capacitive trackpad. Dell’s rugged laptops usually use resistive tech for touch surfaces like touchscreens and trackpads.

@ministrywithandy2339 3 года назад

Would like to see a fallow up on this e6420

@samjackson7701 3 года назад

I'm dying at the "10lb testosterone slab" comment

@thorable530 3 года назад

sputter shielding always amusing.

@pablocarballeira4443 9 месяцев назад

Note: you can put the i7 quad core,its fully compatible

@U3I48IK 3 года назад

Nice, I still use an e6420 base model lol

@AAComputersandTechnology 3 года назад

It's still a great laptop, so I see why you would!

@papi-tjulo 3 года назад

thought you was a pirate 9:50

@masondejonge7553 3 года назад

Hello I'm thinking about getting a t420 and I have a few questions does it have Bluetooth is it really thick and how much should I pay i love your channel by the way

@RanenPo 3 года назад

It has Bluetooth. It's not that thick. If you're in America, pay less than $100 for it, unless the specs are exceptional.

@masondejonge7553 3 года назад

@@RanenPo ok thank you

@Mr_L1n4x 3 года назад

"does it has bluetooth?" yes, "is it really thick" Yes but not too much, if you want a more light version with the same build quality you could get a x series like x220 or x230, "how much should I pay?" not much but keep an eye on upgraded versions if you can source: A proud owner of a T430

@masondejonge7553 3 года назад

@@Mr_L1n4x how thick is the t430

@Dawid_The_Man 2 года назад

Is it actually waterproof my dad found 5 of them in his work dumpster and i took one and the rest i took them for a waterproof test and both of them died couple of weeks later one actually turned on! And mine has a core i5

@drewberchtolzthofen886 Год назад

I still use e6420, alongside with Debian, or Archix, Ubuntu. And I use it professionally, for buildings webapps and console apps, two real downsides for the laptop are that the laptop is indeed not suitable for gaming by any chance, maybe some retro gaming with RetroArch, or platformers like Terraria, And the second one is screen, it's not color precise and when I finish a webapp I need to switch to an external monitor, or to another laptop. But the coolest thing that it has cd-rom, that can be replaced for second hard or ssd drive. I'm sure this laptop will work for years and years on. And for some people maximum of 16gb of RAM might be not enough for their purposes, but it's fine by me.

@iam___611 Год назад

🇺🇦🐖

@todgumtau4639 3 года назад

sound sucks one little speaker thats waterproof and you should get the big slice battery when new i could go 20 hrs in power saving mode just cruse-in RU-vid

@Dm-ni7ti 3 года назад

Why were you driving up to/near it

@DoctorX17 3 года назад

Part of me wants a modern version of this or a ToughBook, but they're SO expensive compared to non-rugged laptops

@Ashton_783 3 года назад

2.7 ghz CPU is better than most laptops nowadays

@DoctorX17 3 года назад

@@Ashton_783 frequency isn’t everything though. The i3-10110U is only 2.1GHz base clock, 20W lower TDP, [15W vs 35W], and is still 11% faster. There’s a lot of things that go into performance

@josephroblesjr.8944 3 года назад

I sooo want one

@Groove1024 3 года назад

alright, they are excellent but not the toughest ones try the Panasonic ones... they are really impressive but the prices even used goes wild

@AG-pm3tc 3 года назад

The penny shim is insane.

@theuncalled_64 3 года назад

that's the laptop i need to give to my dad

@Ghfvhvfg Год назад

A work laptop that doesn’t break in forestry or any other extreme work considering getting one for the funn of it.

@Raj.Singh. 3 года назад

who needs thinkpads?

@DDBAA24 3 года назад

That thing looks militant , use it as a sigint machine

@theiraqiprepper1913 11 месяцев назад

Can this be used for hacking?

@sophiethecat9256 3 года назад

Now i feel like i should not have bought a thinkpad recently :) just kidding i love my thinkpad

@xPLAYnOfficial 3 года назад

You say a heavy laptop is a problem. My steel-built Dell I use purposely as a daily driver begs to differ XD.

@FlyboyHelosim 3 года назад

Steel-built? Which model is that?

@CrossingRover 3 года назад

Yeah I'd love to see that

@todgumtau4639 3 года назад

the d630 xfr is tougher ive had both

@loganmitchell1382 3 года назад

... And I thought my base e6420 was quite durable...

@Kuraio 3 года назад

I suppose XFR stands for eXtra F♡♡king Rugged

@techquire 3 года назад

2020: 5:07

@Chriva 3 года назад

It most likely had a thermal pad. Seen it in other laptops (which imo is a stupid design) :)

@AAComputersandTechnology 3 года назад

That might even be why it went for sale. "Excessed for unknown thermal problems" which is fine with me because I was able to get it for cheap!

@Chriva 3 года назад

Cheap is always the best :D I went on a little hunt and googled for mainboard pictures of this beast. It definitely has a pad visible in some of them :) Kinda hard to find them in local stores (at least over here, in Sweden) but they're really cheap online. Just make sure it has high heat conductivity.

@jbucata 3 года назад

I don't remember where now but I saw this same thing on another RU-vid channel recently, where somebody wanted to replace a thermal pad with paste (better for heat conduction) but decided against it because removing the pad left behind a physical air gap that paste couldn't reliably bridge.