Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

Because running the LCD at non-native resolution looks like the LCD has been dragged through a filthy swamp

I might trade down for the lower-res LED version if someone is willing.

 

I am running the full res and it is crystal clear, easy to read, maybe you need glasses?

 

How about increasing Font size from the Appearance tab of Windows and increase the DPI. Then you set the icons to be large.

In any case, you should see an optometrist.

 

Vista is not a failure, it's a great OS.
AGAIN, it was a problem with drivers that hardware manufacture decided cash in on Vista and forced you to buy their new or even to the extreme to make you wait for their next big product and charge you a high price.
There is nothing Microsoft could do about it. Since, these hardware manufacture saw that this buisness plan just simply doesn't work and that consumers are way smarter, they ditch that decision and started to make Vista drivers. At that time Vista SP1 is out to launch.
Even Dell recognize this laptop, when I got this laptop in NOVEMBER, I recall XP and Vista 32-bit Dell software being incomplete (especially XP), but Vista 64-bit was complete.
If you try this for real and don't go "OMG the task bar is black I am sooo lost, VISTA SUCKS!", you will NEVER touch XP every again. Or following some comments on a blog from some guy that tried to install and run Vista on his 200$ laptop that can even run XP properly, and then complain how the OS doesn't work, let alone install XP drivers on Vista, where clearly XP driver architect is completely different over Vista's/Win7 and expect no BSOD and the crazy smooth experience. And then you have IT's who are thinks they know everything despite refusing to read a single peace of release note, TechNet documentation, let alone MSDN for many/software engineers programmers, and treat Vista as XP, by doing stupidly the same crap with services and other OS tweak, and end up with a big mess.

Then you have XP... here it's all nice Dell prepared everything for you, the day you build a system Jhon you'll see how XP just simple doesn't work. No SATA support, No PCI-E support.. that's nice. It's a freaking week-end project to get the SATA driver to work to install XP and fully enjoy teh speed of your SATA controller, which mean full HDD speed. Then you can get on with your 16colors at 640x480 and trry to set your network so that you downlaod your motherboard and video card drivers to make your screen appear properly. And then you come down to teh fact that you realized that the OS is all for single core CPU (processes gets thrown from 1 CPU to another and not use several CPU's at the same time, throwing the concept of multi-core CPU's at the garbage), and everything to make sure that a multi-core CPU gets disadvantageous. And then, after all this clustered mess, you have the fact that it can use your 4GB of RAM and that your CPU is locked down to 32-bit and not going at it's full speed. But wait, that is not all, XP, no mather how much RAM you have, ALWAYS act as if you are low in memory, and puts EVERYTHING on your HDD. Way to kill battery life on your laptop, kill responsiveness, and just slow down your computer. And to top things over, you have the interface being drawing by the CPU?! How ridiculous stupid it is to do such a thing?! Software interfaces are usually simple and easy to draw, but fancy boarders? No way, you have to use the GPU especially this day in age. Oh and let not me start with the huge list of security holes, how a 8-year old kid can make a successful virus/malware software for this ty OS, and all the bugs that you workaround or not use them each day but don't realize it as you got used to it.

XP good, eh? I don't think so.
Now, As for why Vista is not being used in businesses, I previously talk about it... this post is getting way to long.
You should stop reading Mac and Linux fanboys several forum accounts comments and actually do your research and try for yourself, and THEN see for yourself who is correct.

 

I don't care what the Linux and Mac fanboys think. I used Vista for one year and then went back to XP when I bought my E6400. I don't regret it.

The reports of Windows 7 suggest it is what Vista should have been and I may well give M$ some of my hard-earned cash.

John

 

I took off my stickers without a problem and I think it looks fine- goo gon is great stuff

 

Anyone else has trouble understanding what he was trying to say?

 

I think you meant WUXGA, i.e. 1920x1200. Yes, that is a very high resolution for a 15.4" screen for reading text and spreadsheets, unless you really bump up the DPI settings. Great for movies and photos, though.

My son had the Inspiron 9300 with a 17" WUXGA screen. It was stressful using it if I keep the DPI setting that he was using. But it is nice having the real estate for large spreadsheets.

 

Let me try in re-explain...
Electronics mechanical or not wear over time when used. No mater what is the temperature. That is the direct point of the sentence. The more a component is "worn" out, the less reliable it is. This means that more errors will occurs. That is why old computer tend to crash more often then when they are new no mater what you do, even if you restore an image (copy of the harddrive) of the system drive when it was new.

Just to make clear: in the paragraph of my previous post I agreed that big temperature change difference wear faster components.
The conclusion of my post is that you have system... why not use it. It's like having a hammer (a tool), but you don't use as hitting nails will scratch it.

 

What you seem to not believe is that the failure rate increases exponentially with temperature. It's not just temperature change. Of course, rapid temperature cycling is detrimental to components because of mechanical stress created. The bottom line is running components at lower temperature is a very good thing for reliability (which you also seem to disagree, but I can't really tell what you agree or disagree anymore).