Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

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Anyone try these? Need something to put on the bottom of this e6400 to keep it from sliding around on my lap and also to help grip it as i pick it up from the floor. Also I am having all kinds of hell keeping the power cable in, anyone know of any sleek way to keep it in?

 

I have now used my E6400 for about a month and I am very pleased with it, except for a couple of things. The display (samsung) has very narrow vertical viewing angle and is too pale. It would hopefully improve if there could be a driver update with the possibility to change contrast (or gamma) settings, but i havent found any yet. Have you?

For now, I could have used an external display most of the time, but I also have a quite bad VGA output (compared with my other laptops, on the same display). I have "unprecise" and colorbleeding text (and yes, I have cleartype enabled) Anyone else with bad VGA out quality?

My temps is CPU 45-50 and GPU 60-65 idle, and up over 90 on the GPU when stressed (Celsius) (I can lower the idle GPU temps about 5-10 degres when disabling Vista aero and the external display)

 

Hello.

Recieved my E6400 about a week ago. While working I check the power metter (in the taskbar) and it sometime shows 3:60 and in about 5 sec later it shows 5:40, and then it jumps to another number again. Is there any way to fix it, so it would give me a correct time of working?

Thanks.

 

Yeah ... the display is pretty sub-par. Viewing angles are dead-on and that's it (with no angles). In fact I think the entire laptop is sub-par with regard to quality. I've had too many problems for a laptop that we paid over $2600 for. It's my companies exclusive supplier so I don't really have a choice, but I'd be hesitant to recommend it to those who do have such a choice.

 

driven01: Well, i actually think its a nice little thing, seems solid built and with pretty good specs. But I am still curiuos if we have had bad examples or not... And I think the display quality could be improved if it was possible to adjust color and gamma. You also had the the quadrocard so how about the VGA output, is the quality acceptable to you?

 

The display quality is OK. I've had better for the money, but it IS acceptable. The stability and some other nit-picky issues are what's driving me nuts now.

 

Has anyone ordered the sleeve from Waterfield? I'm considering it, but not sure if it's worth the $45, which seems a bit pricey.

 

Then your fast fan run constantly? My slow fan starts when GPU hits 46C and fast arround 50C.

How do you disable aero? (sorry, I'm not that vista experienced, but if I could lower the GPU temp a little then the slow fan would not kick in at all, which could be advantageous sometimes!)

 

My fan never shuts off, ever.

 

That is probably the curse of having the Nvidia card. Mine is mostly off when iddling and about 50/50 when on cpu usage 10-15%. But it is almost always the GPU that starts the fan eventhoug I have the Intel x4500