Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

Agreed, making drivers work with Ubuntu is way more complicated. It's getting better pretty fast though, Microsoft and Apple had better watch out. I'll retry Cygwin soon.

Regarding your problem: "msconfig" and disabling all non-Microsoft stuff seems like a good idea. Adobe in particular likes to quick-start their Reader, Photoshop etc at boot time and that can add considerably to the overall time it takes to boot.

 

thank you, i'll do that.

 

I work in my college's (Texas Tech University) IT Division and part of my job is to set up the new computers that professors and labs get. For the most part they're Dell Latitudes, Macbook Pros, Mac Pros and Dell Optiplexes.

I knew it was only a matter of time before I stopped seeing the D-series Latitudes and begin seeing clones of my own laptop (and it's big/little brothers, the E4300 and E6500 lol). Today was the day.
We got in an E4300, a E6400 and a E6500.

The most important one to us is the E6400.
The first thing I noticed different was the keyboard.
The Fn commands printed on the keys were blue (like most D series).
The Windows button is a black windows logo on a white solid circle. Mine is a white windows logo with a thin white circle around it.
Most importantly: the new E6400's keyboard had a "rougher" feel, more like the D-series keyboard and much different from the "glossy" keyboard mine has. The biggest advantage of this is that my fingerprints didn't smudge it up.
I thought that Dell had come out with a different keyboard, but upon closer inspection I realized the key (no pun intended) difference: mine had a backlit keyboard, this new one didn't.

Can anyone else confirm these differences between the non-backlit and backlit keyboards?

(Cell-phone quality pics)
"rough" non-backlit keyboard:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33211711@N06/3423433373/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33211711@N06/3424241742
"glossy" backlit keyboard:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33211711@N06/3424241776/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33211711@N06/3424241712/
Smudges on the glossy keyboard from normal use.

 

I have a non-backlit keyboard and I can confirm my keyboard looks like the "rough" non-backlit keyboard on your photos, including the blue Fn commands and the Windows logo. I'm not sure if I would call it rough, I really like this keyboard, except for that GRRR touchpoint in the middle that occasionally makes me fail to press H or G when I type fast.

 

"Rough" was meant as a term of endearment I do like it more

 

Agreed; I like the feel of the non backlit keyboard way more than my backlit KB.

 

nVidia GPU driver A06 179.47 has just been released.

Also new firmware for the TSST DVD writer.

 

Dell is so behind... I have 182.47 and the 182.50 was recently release as well :|

 

I'm getting a BSOD after reboot when upgrading to the latest Nvidia driver. I have the E6400 with XP Pro.

Anyone else having this problem?

 

Right, but have you been able to load these on your machine? Maybe it's just my e6400, but i've edited the inf after extracting the nvidia files but after each install/reboot, i get the BSOD.