The Dell Latitude D500 is designed for users who require essential productivity and dependable quality at a value price. Even with it's affordable price, the D500 doesn't skimp on features using the Intel Pentium M processor and a bright 14.1" XGA Active Matrix display. The D500 also offers Intel Centrino Technology featuring the Intel Pentium M processor, the 855 chipset and the Intel PROWireless MiniPCI card. As well as integrated connectivity such as 56K Modem, 10/100 Ethernet and USB 2.0, all this incorporated into the Dell Latitude D-Family Moonlight Silver chassis. The Latitude D500 features an easy to use design with clearly visible status indicators, convenient modular bay, interchangeable with other D-Family notebook modules, full-size comfortable and durable keyboard, and easy to use latches on the display.

Designed primarily with business travelers in mind, this Latitude comes with replaceable hard drive, optical drive and battery. So you can easily insert a longer life battery or a DVD-ROM instead of CD-ROM. In place of a floppy drive there is a Modular bay designed to install various devices - Modular bay supports CD-ROM drive, CD-RW drive, DVD-ROM drive, DVD/CD-RW combo drive, 2nd Lithium Ion battery, 2nd hard drive, floppy diskette drive and Dell Travelite travel module.

The Dell Latitude D500 also has a large inventory of ports equipped, new and old ones: Serial, Parallel, Video (VGA and S-video out), Infrared (1 Fast IR and 1 Slow IR), Audio (microphone-in-jack, stereo headphones/speakers jack), 2 USB 2.0, Modem (RJ-11 port), Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 port) and 1 (Type I or Type II) PC card slot.

^{Specifications:}

^Processor

• ^{Processor: Intel Pentium M 1.3 GHz}
• ^{Data Bus Speed: 400 MHz}
• ^{Chipset Type: Intel 855GM}

^{Cache memory}

• ^{Type: L2 Cache}
• ^{Installed Size: 1 MB}

^{Storage controller}

• ^{Type: IDE}

^{Optical storage}

• ^{Type: CD-ROM - removable plug-in module}
• ^{Read Speed: 24x}

^Video

• ^{Graphics Processor / Vendor: Intel Extreme Graphics 2 AGP 4x}
• ^{Video Memory: Shared Video Memory (UMA)}

^Audio

• ^{Audio Output: Sound card}
• ^{Compliant Standards: AC '97}

^{Input device(s)}

• ^{Type: Keyboard, touch-pad}
  

^Telecoms

• ^{Modem: Fax / Modem}
• ^{Max Transfer Rate: 56 Kbps}
• ^{Protocols & Specifications: ITU V.92}

Dell Latitude D500 is recommended for any business traveler who wants a light weighted, great performance laptop on a low budget.

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