Despite being a business machine, the Latitude E6320 is still somewhat svelte; the cover features a black brushed-aluminum panel and a matte-silver magnesium-alloy bumper. The aluminum panel, which tapers off at the sides, is a bit of a fingerprint magnet. The laptop isn't superslim, but it is small, measuring 1.2 inches at its thickest, and 8.8 inches wide by 13.2 inches long. Our review model came with a six-cell battery, which generated 6 hours, 11 minutes of battery life in our tests. The battery is a little too big for the laptop, so it sticks out the back about an inch or so. It doesn't get in the way of the hinge or ports, though, and it doesn't push the laptop up at an angle; it just adds an extra inch to the back of the ultraportable.

Dell paid a little more attention to the inside of the laptop, which is much more attractive than the svelte yet boring exterior. The wrist rest is a soft, rubbery black, and a thin orange sliver surrounds the keyboard. The laptop also has two pointing devices: a touchpad (simple, black, and with two discrete mouse buttons), and a rubbery pointing stick (with three of its own discrete mouse buttons). On the right side of the keyboard are volume-up, volume-down, and mute buttons.

The backlit keyboard has regular-style keys, but each is slightly raised, higher than the thin border around it. This design gives the keyboard a semi-Chiclet look; it also means that the key faces are smaller than they'd normally be on a regular keyboard. This shape makes typing more difficult, and the keyboard feels cramped.

Both pointing devices are acceptable, though the stick is a little easier to use--the touchpad is understandably small (the E6320 is a 13-inch laptop, after all). All five mouse buttons are big and easy to press, and you can disable the touchpad and its buttons using a Function key.

The Latitude E6320 isn't port-heavy, but it has what you need in a business laptop: one USB 2.0 port, one USB 2.0/eSATA combo port, an ExpressCard reader, a SmartCard reader, an SD Card reader, a combination microphone/headphone jack, a gigabit ethernet port, and a Kensington lock slot. It also has two different display connectors (VGA and Mini HDMI), as well as a docking connector, in case you want to use it on a desktop with an external display.