Dell Latitude E6420 ATG Review: A Fast, Tough, and Pricey Laptop

What does $3000 get you in a business laptop these days? With the Dell Latitude E6420 ATG, it buys top-flight computing speed and nearly half a day's battery life packed into a feature-rich chassis with a fortified case that might stop some bullets.
But the $3136 (as of June 15, 2011) price tag of our test configuration isn't the only drawback. At 6.5 pounds, the E6420 ATG is nearly a pound heavier than its less pricey (but still beefy) 14-inch sibling, the Latitude E5420.
The Latitude E6420 ATG certainly delivers superior computing power: Configured with Intel's high-end quad-core Core i7-2620M running at 2.7GHz, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, Intel HD graphics, a 128GB solid-state drive, and the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Professional, it racked up a WorldBench 6 score of 136, breezing past the E5420 and all entrants on our current (as of June 5) all-purpose laptops chart.
It isn't a gaming notebook, though. Lacking discrete graphics, the E6420 ATG posted scores on our gaming tests that were on a par with those of other Intel HD graphics-based

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