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

[@stonent]

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.

[@Lurker1979]

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]

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

[@grippysockgf]

Omg it's been awhile, hope all is well

[@corey7219]

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

[@Mr_L1n4x]

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]

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]

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

[@praneethalva571]

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]

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.

[@creativsync9261]

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

[@Teksers]

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.

[@medleysa]

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.

[@rfcdgaf]

Excellent video, matched perfectly with a Toyota

[@Nitrilogent]

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

[@W1ldTangent]

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.

[@black_metal_luvr]

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

[@RoyHess666]

0:16 You've missed it!

[@ryuken8112]

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

[@pablocarballeira4443]

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

[@LevelUp_ErikJ]

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.

[@ministrywithandy2339]

Would like to see a fallow up on this e6420

[@samjackson7701]

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

[@datasoftinc]

please make more vids like this

[@masondejonge7553]

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]

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]

@@RanenPo ok thank you

[@Mr_L1n4x]

"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]

@@Mr_L1n4x how thick is the t430

[@todgumtau4639]

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 KZbin

[@Dawid_The_Man]

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

[@Dm-ni7ti]

Why were you driving up to/near it

[@atrox1722]

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

[@atrox1722]

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

[@harshitgupta6856]

The penny hack is genius

[@blakerala5732]

HE'S ALIVE

[@U3I48IK]

Nice, I still use an e6420 base model lol

[@AAComputersandTechnology]

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

[@WilmingtonOHProductions]

I have a base model E6420 and even then that thing is a tank

[@KrissBartlett]

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

[@DoctorX17]

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

[@Ashton_783]

2.7 ghz CPU is better than most laptops nowadays

[@DoctorX17]

@@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

[@smokeajeff]

thought you was a pirate 9:50

[@Groove1024]

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

[@thorable530]

sputter shielding always amusing.

[@drewberchtolzthofen886]

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]

🇺🇦🐖

[@theiraqiprepper1913]

Can this be used for hacking?

[@Ghfvhvfg]

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

[@Kuraio]

I suppose XFR stands for eXtra F♡♡king Rugged

[@loganmitchell1382]

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

[@gavinvales8928]

Perfection

[@theuncalled_64]

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

[@AG-pm3tc]

The penny shim is insane.

[@todgumtau4639]

the d630 xfr is tougher ive had both

[@DDBAA24]

That thing looks militant , use it as a sigint machine

[@josephroblesjr.8944]

I sooo want one

[@Raj.Singh.]

who needs thinkpads?

[@xPLAYnOfficial]

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

[@FlyboyHelosim]

Steel-built? Which model is that?

[@CrossingRover]

Yeah I'd love to see that

[@techquire]

2020: 5:07

[@Chriva]

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

[@AAComputersandTechnology]

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]

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.

[@jb31842]

I don't remember where now but I saw this same thing on another KZbin 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.

[@sophiethecat9256]

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

[@crystalscan2002]

that poor laptop :(

[@paturro]

To me, thinkpad x200 is better.

[@granjita1610]

Dota2 play ?

[@jaideesasaki]

painful intro tbh :D

[@FranklinVardetta]

Nice also I'm officially first hello

[@AAComputersandTechnology]

Congratulations ;p !