Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

Hey I was wondering about the screen quality that most people find bad with the Samsung panel.

Could there be a difference with the same panel between both graphic card options? Could the samsung be nice with the Intel graphics and not with the nVidia? I tried to look back on posts about people complaining and I am not sure 100% that all the bad screens are nVidia.

Mine is Samsung w/ Intel and it's sincerely one of the most beautiful laptop screen I had. My last lappy was a big 17" Clevo, but the Dell easily surpasses it...

 

This is an interesting point, and I'm curious to hear other people's experiences. I have the E6400 with the Samsung LED display and the nvidia card. I have listed my problems with it before, but quickly, when the screen is on lower brightness settings, it spontaneously gets dim then bright again. I noticed that it does this more often when I adjust the display monitor angle, so I thought it was a hardware thing and told Dell.

They (very quickly) sent me a replacement, but it was with the LG/Phillips display. That one had its own problems, including that where the whites on the Samsung tend to have a slightly bluish hue, the LPL display gives a yellowish hue, which looked much worse side-by-side. Furthermore, when I moved the display, I saw some rippling in the bottom right corner of the screen. By running my finger along the bezel, with slight pressure, the rippling was much worse when I got to that corner. So I figured manufacturing defect.

Another call to Dell, another replacement, this time I got the LPL screen again, same rippling problem. So the 3rd one is going back, and I am keeping my original.

 

Rofl, the ambient light sensor wasn't on was it? It automatically dims/brightens when tilt the computer towards different angles.

 

No, that's been disabled...

 

The only real negative I find on my Samsung screen is the vertical viewing angles.

The Intel graphics options do allow you to adjust the color settings. It is on the bluish side, but it seems that most LED backlit screens are.

Greg

 

The problem that some user face with screen... from my understanding you say that if you put the screen at let's say 50%, it might jump to 100% and quickly drop down back to 50% without doing anything on the computer physically or on software level. If that is the case, my brother Dell XPS 12inch notebook with the Geforce 7300 has the same issue.

Strange that it was never solved.


As for the color problem with the new display, I don't know about the Quadro, but on my Geforce GTX 260 on my computer and my old Geforce 6600 GT PCI-E, had the ability to adjust the colors with the nVidia control Panel and Vista color manager.

 

so your best combination is samsung panel and probably with intel gfx card.

 

I think you should just call Dell to get the board replaced.

 

i am also happy with my samsung lcd with intel integrated graphic.
it provides good colours and contrast so far, better than the thinkpad and hp of my friends, though i don't have a high end lcd on hand such as eizo to compare with.

 

I can chime in to say that I have the LG with the Quadro and it's the best screen I've seen out of any Dell laptop I've owned or purchased for our company. It's bright and the colors are right on IMO for pics and graphics. This is the LG without the privacy option (which I'm not sure exactly how that's applied to the screen.)