Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge, Part 2

John Ratsey · 03-06-2010, 12:15 PM

I've tracked down my eSATA ExpressCard and it shows up as port 4.

BTW, that Silicon Image adaptor is slow by current standards - it can only manage about 40MB/s transfer rate.

John

HerrKaputt · 03-06-2010, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by John Ratsey

I've tracked down my eSATA ExpressCard and it shows up as port 4.

BTW, that Silicon Image adaptor is slow by current standards - it can only manage about 40MB/s transfer rate.

John

Thanks John.

Ferretwulf · 03-06-2010, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Commander Wolf

You can pretty much use any Dell AC adapter made in the past five years with the E6400 (though there's some oddballs like the octagonal stuff made for the M1330). I for one have been using an old PA-12 (smaller and longer wall-end cable) with my E6400 for the past year without any problems.

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Originally Posted by John Ratsey

I'm using a variety of Dell PSUs without any problem. My early E6400 came with one of the previous generation 90W PSUs. However, 65W is enough to power the Intel graphics version of the E6400.

John

Thanks, guys. Due to the thefts I am left with 3 extra power supplies, so that's nice to know!

Never saw an octagonal one before. I had an M1330 and it was a normal dell brick that came with it. Octo would be rather...odd

bostonlover · 03-07-2010, 12:47 PM

Hi, allfiredup.
Thank you very much for your great advice, which is really helpful and important to me.
Actually I am in a laptop program for Harvard University. I don't have too many choices for the configuration.
Only three options for processor: T9600, P9700, T9900
For graphics card, the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M is the only choice.
And definitely I will choose the WXGA+ (1440x900) UltraSharp LED,which is actually included in the basic configuration.
As I used the dial-up connection long long time ago, I will follow your and other guys' advice not to choose the modem.
What's your opinion?

Thanks.

HerrKaputt · 03-07-2010, 12:52 PM

Definitely get the P9700.

John Ratsey · 03-07-2010, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by HerrKaputt

Definitely get the P9700.

Agreed. The lower power rating improves battery time and there's less heat for the cooling system to dispose of.

John

Mad*Max · 03-07-2010, 02:52 PM

hello everyone

i have a p9700 and its great
4 hours of battery

ive got an issue with my atg, the speakers dont sound normal
from time to time, every few seconds i get some kind of noise or lag
its like when they shut off and back on fast
i tried reinstalling another sound driver and then this back doesnt help
maybe i didnt do this right.

dont tell me ive got to reinstall windows

HerrKaputt · 03-07-2010, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Mad*Max

hello everyone

i have a p9700 and its great
4 hours of battery

ive got an issue with my atg, the speakers dont sound normal
from time to time, every few seconds i get some kind of noise or lag
its like when they shut off and back on fast
i tried reinstalling another sound driver and then this back doesnt help
maybe i didnt do this right.

dont tell me ive got to reinstall windows

Have you installed the latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager (SATA controller)?

Mad*Max · 03-07-2010, 05:09 PM

no,
i didnt think it had any connection as i dont use raid
but i will try and get back
good to see a european friend

thanks

HerrKaputt · 03-07-2010, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Mad*Max

no,
i didnt think it had any connection as i dont use raid
but i will try and get back
good to see a european friend

thanks

SATA is the interface for pretty much all modern hard drives (and SSDs too). Many optical drives (DVD drives, Blu-ray, etc) also use a SATA interface.

As for europeans, there are plenty of them here at NBR! Welcome