Dell D620 Laptop Duo Core with Windows XP

For budget Gamer I found this laptop to be great for league of legendes. (With upgraded RAM to 4 gigs of ram) being capable to run windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit.Video: The graphics are integrated so its simple. It can run hearthstone and leauge without a problem.Sound: I can't say I like the sound on the device. I use a speaker so its working out for me but without it its hard to a lot to be honest.Speed: like I stated before the 2.0 gigs that it comes with can still do the job for the games I play and the videos I watch whilst using only one of the programs but with the upgrate its fantastic.Battery: Another downside to be hosnet it does heat up quickly and if your a gamer like me you know that if you have it unplugged windows ussaly goes into a power saving mode that slows it down significantly. So giving the battary a break from time to time is ideal.As far as non gaming pursues such as surfing the internet and what not. It runs quite well. But you'll have to upgrade your browser for some sites because windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft. I use firefox for the best performance.You can of course upgrade to windows 7 32 bit and use windows internet explorer 11 but Windows XP doss not run it.All in all if you know your way around a a personal computer this buy is a steal and a great device if upgraded.I love it already.Oh and john the service Representative was also vary awesome for getting shipped to me faster.Thanks John!

I purchased this laptop in hopes that I would be able to play my classic CD-ROM games (most of which are classic Magic School Bus games) without any issues. I used to play them on my Windows Vista. But there were issues like displaying the games on small screens, the cutscenes of The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body were sped up, and so on.I first tried to use 2 different virtual machines (VirtualBox and VMWare) and DOSBox to run them on my Windows 10. I succeeded in installing the virtual machines and DOSBox. The only thing I had to do now was install Windows 3.1 on them. But with each of them, I had problems. The last straw was when I successfully installed Windows 3.1 on DOSBox, but the cursor would stay frozen in the center of the screen. So, I gave up on using virtual machines and DOSBox and purchased this laptop as I read on the internet that Windows XP can run seemingly any classic Windows game on it.When it was going to arrive at my house, the deliverer ran into an issue and was held at my town's post office for pickup. My dad drove me over and we picked it up. But when I tried to install my games on it, they wouldn't install. So, I purchased this for nothing. It's been ages since I ended up purchasing something from Amazon that ended up being a waste of money.However, shortly after purchasing the laptop, I stumbled upon a site called Allvideo Classic Games that sold CDs that install classic Windows games on modern PCs. After the disappointment of the laptop not working, I went to the site to purchase a CD, and it had all the classic Magic School Bus games on it. I can now play them on my computer with no issues whatsoever. No more small screens, no more sped up cutscenes, no more freezing, no more crashing, etc. The only issue, actually, is the music that plays in the mouth and the heart in The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body doesn't exactly play right, and the same thing happens with a few of the tools in the Tool Bus. But it's fine because at least I can still play the game a lot better (and I can listen to how the music really sounds on YouTube).A few more games I got to work perfectly on my Windows 10 are Lego Island, The Magic School Bus Explores the World of Animals, The Magic School Bus Explores Bugs, and Atari Arcade Hits 1. There are also 2 more games, Road Construction Ahead and Reading Blaster Ages 6-9, that I can no longer play because I put my Vista into storage since I won't be playing my computer games on it anymore, and Road Construction Ahead and Reading Blaster Ages 6-9 are not compatible with Windows 10. Fortunately, I can watch a playthrough of Reading Blaster on Youtube. And as for Road Construction Ahead, there's currently no playthrough of it, but there are 2 videos uploaded by a YouTube user named NationOFOrages696 that show video files of the game and audio files. It's possible he might upload a video of the actual game in the future.In any case, I'm not ever going to be using this laptop again. But at least I now have a way to enjoy my classic CD-ROM games, with Lego Island and the Magic School Games (mainly the Solar System, Human Body, Ocean, Earth, Dinosaurs, and Rainforest ones) being my most favorites.

I truly give this a 3 1/2 star rating. I'll tell you the Pros and Cons, and what the computer is and isn't made for. I wanted a new Laptop for the online marketing I do since I thought my Toshiba A205 was done for. The shipping from ABCcomputers was fast and everything they said the computer was, was valid information. I was ready to go back to Windows XP OS with the Dell, but decided to install Vista in it instead. The battery and charger worked very well to my surprise lasting well over 2 hours and there were very few cosmetic scratches. Yet the one thing that I cannot get over about the computer was how dim the screen was. I have doubts that all Dell D620 screens come that dark, but it seems as though it's always on a power saving mode for battery life like a typical laptop. It's a slight annoyance, but I believe I can live with it, and I can say this was the greatest of all problems I had with the computer.ABCcomputers described it as a powerful laptop despite it's 1GB RAM memory, 1.65GHz Dou Core Processor and only 80GB HDD memory. To my surprise it was a work horse! Here's the twist, I replaced the 80GB Seagate Hard Drive with an 128GB Solid State Drive in the Dell and could start maybe 10 applications all at the same time including 3 web browsers with practically no application effecting the others performance. Here's another twist; when I found out what was wrong with my Toshiba (a newer computer than the refurbished Dell), I switched the Solid State Drive to the Toshiba that had 2GB RAM, and 1.85 GHz Duo Core Processing. In this experiment, I found the applications sometimes load a few seconds slower than instantly like in the D620. I actually encountered some freezing of applications I had to force close in the Toshiba. This never happened when the SSD was in my Dell D620! I still kept the SSD in the Toshiba because of how bright and wide screened it was over the Dell. Besides, the SSD works good enough in the Toshiba.The computer's processing seems very good with it's original Seagate Harddrive. I really don't know what you can ask for more out of a refub Dell from 2006. This Dell's focus was primarily as a business computer so Word Processing is ideal. I was planning on upgrading the Dell even more by putting in 4 GBs of RAM as it only has 1GB. Before anything my main focus is getting that backlighting brighter as Fn + the UP arrow key does not do the trick. I'm sure that would cost at least over $100, and right now that's too much of an investment out of this secondary computer. At the same time the computer can only use 3.5GB out of the 4GB of RAM because of the BIOS blocking it or 32 bit OS you're using. Either one is the case but I'm not %100 sure. The D620 is not a light computer even though the screen width is just 14 inches wide. They made it pretty sturdy with a Strike Zone feature that probably helps keep your hardware and cpu denying damage.It's not at all a Gaming PC. A video card / whole new motherboard has to be put inside of it just to recognize a newer Microsoft game. So, sorry gaming geeks, you'll have to pay probably another hundred dollars if you wanna play Skyrim and your other favorite games. Gaming wouldn't be exceptional anyway, since the screens brightness isn't top resplendent or enchanting.Concluding my own personal story, I now have a secondary laptop that I'll probably just store files on such as music for I Tunes, and maybe in the future video file, and probably do some web browsing. I think its a good PC, but I would like to know what others feel about their Latitude's backlighting. Comment because I wanna know. It's a decent computer, but I think it would be well worth the $200 if it didn't hurt my eyes to watch lol. Other than that problem I would recommend someone buying this computer and upgrading it as they go making it a super computer like I did.