Hello all New Dell user here with my Inspiron 6400 :)

I received my laptop today and i absolutely love it. Huge upgrade from my old celeron and already this thing is impressing me by leaps and bounds. This is my second laptop i have owned and the first was an emachine M2105 which was great for typing essays but sucked for everything else. I have 50gigs of music to upload to it and then i will be set to test it for what i got it for which is DJing Vinyl emulation . I deleted most of what i thought was crapware but if someone could link me to a list of useless dell programs i should uninstall that would be great!!!!

I have found that the 7300 driver from the dell site is really old from what people say so i plan on using this driver because it seems recommended http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ any other tweaked drivers for the 6400 you guys recommened??

I will be tweaking the laptop for optimal performance for Dj vinyl emulation software, school work, and occasional counterstrike playing . These are the specs i got for 600 bucks WHooT:

* Intel Core DUO T2350 (1.86GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
* Genuine Windows XP Home
* 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA Display (with or without TrueLife for the same price)
* 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm
* 160GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive
* 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
* 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 TurboCache*
* Dell Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini Card (54Mbps)
* 53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
* 1 Yr Ltd Warranty, 1 Yr Mail-in Service, and 1 Yr Tech Support


I will be performing these tweaks to help performance http://www.audioforums.com/resources/windows-xp-optimization.html as well as attempting to use two different profiles for Djing and school, OR creating a batch file that disables many windows services that are not needed when running my DJ software. Please Comment.

 

It is heavy to carry around everyday.

 

Actually its much lighter then my old emachines, i carried that in my backpack at school and that thing was heavyyyyy. This one is much lighter but i needed the 15" screen for Djing .

Side Note: I just installed CS and everything seems to be running perfect so im just going to leave the OEM graphics driver and not mess with anything for now.

 

$600 for that! Wow...that's definitely a nice deal.

 

enjoy your laptop, i enjoy mine!

 

Yea i got super lucky they had this deal for about a week for small business and a few days after i ordered mine they included the ATI 1400 card for the same price so i called back and got a price match so i ended up paying 653 tax and everything . So far i am very very happy with it. Im uploading all my music now.


Does anyone have any suggestions on what they uninstalled when they got their new dells??

 

if you waited a few more days you could've gotten the ati x1400 for the same price.

 

Yea i saw that, i just called and asked for the price match because i am not going to use this as a gaming machine. Im glad i did though because from what i hear a lot of people are receiving their laptops with out the ati and having the 7300 instead, saves me the headache of returning it . My brother wants one now so im off to look up a great deal for him.