Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

Those of you that installed the drivers from laptopvideo2go, are there any significant differences? do you recommend us to do the same? thanks for any info

 

No, the geforce drivers have more options. My driver version is 179.13, if that matters...

 

I deactivated PowerMizer via the registry (after some googling I found a how to-thread), but TechPowerUp still shows 169MHz for the GPU core clock...
Are there any other programs to show the GPU speed? (perhaps TechPowerUp isn't working right)

(edit: btw, I got the 180.48 driver installed and still no Powermizer option in the control panel...??)

 

got my e6400 today

 

Okay, another reboot worked - now my PowerMizer is disabled!
The Vista Experience Index for Graphics still hasn't changed - still 3.4 though.

 

Oh wow, I have 3.3!
What I don't get is gaming is 4.7, and Desktop Aero is 3.3.... doesn't make much sense.

 

one question: who has reinstalled vista on their new e6400? because i would like to do it. do you have to (re)activate vista with microsoft??

one more question: did you keep the recovery partition? what is it for anyway? i have the (dell) vista dvd and the "application" and "drivers and utilities" dvd/cd. is there anything on the recovery partition that i need and that i do not have on dvd or get from the web?? to be save i already burned a dvd with the files on the partition.
it is not much, but i would like to erase it from my hd, and reinstall vista in a ~70gb partition and have the rest for data storage. that would also give me a clean install.
is there anything important about reinstalling the drivers?
thanks
stephan

 

I've been researching the E6400 and after much reading, I discovered this info www,upenn,edu/computing/provider/docs/hardware/rlatitudee6400,html which
I thought offers some pretty good summaries on purchasing the E6400 and Windows.

Thinking out loud, I'm inclined to bump the CPU up to P9500 for a bit more zip still at 25Watts despite the cost. And bump memory to 4GB, perhaps later, for Windows 7 64-bit. Express Card. Lit KB. 160GB HDD now can be bumped to a less expensive SSD later for a performance boost. 370 Bluetooth now... UWB may never make it to market. WiFi 5300 for full n performance. 6-Cell now... 9-cell later if required... must keep size and weight down, right. WXGA+ LED, but I am concerned that 1440x900 will be small reading on 14.1"... does Ultrasharp mean smaller pixels such that the image compression is not so bad (like how 1024x768 on a 17" CRT is not much different than on a 15" LCD)? Also wondering if the old rule of thumb 'dedicated graphics is recommended' is ignoring advances in integrated graphics relative to typical usage... does the Intel GPU significantly impact system CPU and memory during typical usage i.e. not gaming? Conversely, how much does the dedicate GPU degrade battery charge life... like 3 hours vs. 2 hours roughly speaking?

GK

 

Please read my review:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=323607

 

@GKDesigns, your 17inch display should not be 1024x768. Probably you never where on it's native resolution. The Native resolution of a anything other than terrible 17inch screen CRT and LCD is 1280x1024 (if you are using a CRT it should be at 85Hz refresh rate, if you have anything bellow, than it's an abysimal monitor)

1440x900 has less pixels than 1280x1024, which means that the work area should be the same. Things will be a little smaller as it's a 14inch... but I said a LITTLE. If you are comfortable with a 17inch 1280x1024, then you should not have any problems with 1440x900 on a 14inch display. Worst come to worst you can increase the DPI and have everything big without really sacrificing work area.

As for the rest you can do what you want, but I say get 4GB of RAM already with Vista 64-bit. Have everything setup for you. because it will cost you more, as you will need to trow away 2GB (2 stick of 1 GB) and put 2 stick of 2GB for your 4GB. When Windows 7 will come out, all you'll have to do is a simple OS switch.

If you check my review (see previous post), you can read how much battery life the Latitude E6400 has with a dedicated graphic card with the 9-cell battery.