Latitude E4300 first impressions

Thanks for sharing that info, ohmslaw51.
As I heard this morning, my Dell will arrive next week. I wonder if there are differences between US and european stores concerning the Latitude ON Option. May I ask which country's dell support you've called?

 

I am in Houston, Texas. I called Round Rock, Texas which is where their world headquarters are located (just outside of Austin, Texas).

 

I received my E4300 today. It has the dock and the 24-inch UltraSharp monitor.

I have barely used it yet, but I can say that it is definitely significantly smaller and lighter than my 14-inch Thinkpad T60, which is part of what I wanted.

I will post more in a day or two. I have one question: I received two types of power cords, one of which is smaller -- but the smaller one is still not tiny. Can someone post a photo of the smallest possible power brick for the E4300?

 

the smallest one if your lappy, the biggest one is for your dock station.
This is generally the setup based on oh so many reviews I read on different laptops.

Hope this helps. If ti does, you know what to do

 

A new review on the E4300 is available on the web site of ZDNet Australia (i am not authorised to give the link yet as I have less than 15 posts - so google "zdnet australia e4300")

 

Now that would suck.. never read it THAT explicit before.
I hope it is not as hot as they described, because I really do not like that =\

 

And it's in contradiction to the review posted on this site by Prince Phoenix. But in the zdnet review they mention a 2.5GHz processor and 1066MHz RAM, which I did not found in any other configuration.

 

To reply to tizz:

I probably had one of the early manufacturing models, so it's not surprising that it came with so many defects - screen.

My main qualm was with the keyboard. Their model had the backlit keyboard. I'm very curious what others with the non-backlit keyboard who have used past Latitudes and Thinkpads have to say in the matter. It is very spongy perhaps due to the lack of the backlit-feature.

 

2.5GHz is a mistake, they're talking about the SP9400, 2.4GHz and concerning the memory, it's always 1066MHz DDR3, so heat issue should be the same...

 

Indeed, I was thinking the same.
But DDR3 Ram is (as I read here on the forums I think) supposed to produce less heat than a DDR2. That is one reason why I was looking for a nbook with DDR3.
I do not really see why their E4300 did get so hot.. shouldn't be the processor's fault, or am I wrong?