page_title: Dell Latitude
section_title: Latitude D8x0 series
hierarchical_section_title: Dell Latitude / Previous Models / Latitude D8x0 series
caption_attribution_description: English: Dell Latitude D820
context_page_description: Latitude is Dell's business laptop brand, designed and manufactured mainly by Compal and Quanta. The Latitude competes with the ThinkPad series from Lenovo, the EliteBook series from HP and TravelMate series from Acer. The "Rugged", "XFR" and "ATG" models compete primarily with Panasonic's Toughbook line of rugged computers.
context_section_description: The Latitude D8x0 series is the 15.4" corporate model; unlike the D600 and D610, all feature a widescreen form factor. All are two spindle designs, with a "D-bay" modular bay which can interchange optical drives, a floppy module, a second hard drive, or a second battery. All models have a smart card socket, PCMCIA socket, and 9-pin serial port, a "D-dock" port for docking station or port replicator, and have an internal socket for an 802.11 wireless card.
  The D800 was Dell's first widescreen Latitude notebook.
  The D8x0 series models roughly parallel the technology in the D6x0 models other than for screen size; they do not share a battery form factor with the D6x0 series. The D820 and D830 add an ExpressCard socket, not available in the D6x0 series. The D830 is capable of accepting 8 GB of physical memory with updated firmware.
  The D800 equated to the Precision M60, and the D810 to the Precision M70. They were for all intents and purposes identical except for the graphics card, certification, and in the case of the M70, the lid.
  The near-clone Inspirons for the D800 and D810 were the Inspiron 8500 and 8600; the D820 and D830 share hardware with Precision models M65 and M4300 respectively. There are even known cases of "mixed-mode" samples of the latter, where the Dell-recorded type according to the service tag and markings differs from the BIOS-reported type with an identical service tag.
  Both Latitude D820 and D830 have stereo speakers mounted on both sides of the keyboard.
caption: Latitude D820 running Windows 7 Professional.
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