Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

This is not normal, as the keyboard is pretty far from the screen. I think the keyboard is miss installed. You should not any flex with light/medium pressure on a key, and it should not touch the screen. I suggest to remove the keyboard, an make sure that there is no dust on the keyboard bottom and on the system, and then you insert it back. Before putting the screws in, press hard (be reasonable to not brake the keys or the laptop) on each of the side of the keyboard from bottom to top to ensure that it does contact on the system. And then, insert the screws. If the problem is not solved, contact Dell immediately. The LAST thing you want is a scratch screen!

 

The top right corner needs to be pushed in probably. Others have had this problem and I had to push it in after installing a new keyboard.

 

its definitely not that, i remember having that problem though! everything seems uniform. it seems like theres even more cushion with this backlight though...as opposed to the other one.

 

That doesn't sound good. I have very little cushion... like it's only visible if you press hard. OH, maybe your keyboard was bended during transportation. Remove the keyboard and make sure that the keyboard is bended inwards.

 

Hello I am ready to purchase a e6400 soon, just wondering does the ultrasharp will increase the brightness of the screen? I love bright laptop screens and don't care about battery life much..

I am mainly looking at the outlet store with most of them WXGA led screen and few ultrasharp wxga+ screen. I don't know if it's worth the extra money.

 

Actually the brighter screen uses less power.
The reason for this is that they use LED's which consumes nothing as energy compared to the traditional CCFL screen (lightbulb type of light).
I think 1 large LED consumes 0.3W at worst, the screen uses small LED's (but several of them).

 

considering you have a 1440*900 lcd on your e6400, you must have those wxga+ screen, does it look bright enough to you ?

 

It gets me blind
No seriously, to say the truth, it's very bright. You can use the laptop (at max brightness) on a sunny day. But, if you have the sun literally pointing at the laptop, then not really you may have a hard time, but I think that is expected.

The screen is so bright, that sometimes in class when I take notes, I want to diminish the screen brightness as I find it too bright (doesn't make me blind, but I feel all this light is wasting battery life and not necessary) but I can't because it's already on minimum.

When the battery is new: 9cell will give you 9 hours, and the 6cell should give you 6 hours. But that is when the battery is new. Like all Lithium ion battery, the battery life diminishes and stabilizes at some level.
On mt 9-cell battery it quickly drop down and stabilized at 7 hours and half (wireless ON, minimum brightness, no USB device connected, using Word to type notes)

 

that's good to know.. the ones with wxga+ is a little bit over my budget.. kind of hoping they have some other back in stock.. the dell outlet system is really not friendly to use.. have to mannually check if certain systems have the wxga+ screen.

 

I have a question about obtaining maximum video card performance while using battery. I have the dedicated graphics (160m) and when I am using battery power, the card clocks down and HD video playback is choppy. It's even choppy when full-screening standard definition content from Hulu. I'm using XP (and Dell's Control Point software) and everything is set to "maximum performance" while on battery, but performance is still noticeably choppier. Are there any solutions besides simply plugging back into the wall? Thanks!