Refurbished Intel Latitude 3150/3160 4GB Ram 500gb HDD Gray (Grade A)

Design

The Dell Latitude 11 for Education has a utilitarian design that is meant more for protection than to show off. The entire chassis is made of black plastic with rubberized black edges for shock absorption, and the lid is unadorned, with the exception of Dell's logo and an LED light.

Display

The 11-inch, 1366 x 768 display on the Latitude is dim. I had to pump up the brightness to view the screen comfortably when I watched the trailer for Doctor Strange. In the video, a sorcerer's yellow cloak didn't pop against gray buildings, like it does on better screens, and it was harder to make out the cracks and deformities around the evil Kaecilius' eyes.

Dell's panel has an average 269 nits of brightness. Other 11-inchers were worse, as the IdeaPad 100s (243 nits), Aspire Cloudbook 11 (250 nits) and Chromebook C202 (250 nits) were all even dimmer.

The Latitude's display covers 66 percent of the sRGB color gamut, outperforming other 11-inch notebooks, including the IdeaPad 100s (62 percent), Aspire Cloudbook 11 (59 percent) and Chromebook C202 (58 percent).With a Delta-E color accuracy score of 3.8 (0 is best), the colors on the Latitude 11's screen aren't that precise. The Ideapad (3.3) and Chromebook C202 (2.8) had lower scores than the Latitude. Only the Aspire Cloudbook (3.9) was less exact with its colors.

Keyboard and Touchpad

I wouldn't mind writing some research papers for class on the Latitude. The keyboard has a comfortable 1.6 millimeters of travel and requires 51 grams of force to press down, providing crisp feedback. I typed at my average 107 words per minute on the 10fastfingers.com typing test, with my standard 2 percent error rate.

Performance
Here's the rub: Everything good about the Latitude 3150 can be approved, because this laptop is absolutely good for getting anything done.