D630 Owners Thread

apparently theres this 500 nit screen out for the ATG d630.
anything think it'll fit into their orginal d630 ?

 

hey guys ..im thinking of purchasing a d630, are there any major flaws with it? thr inspirons have bad screens and a noisy CPu...any such cases here? how is the temp while normal internet usage?

merci

 

I had heat issues but that is supposedly not normal. The replacement ships on the 12th so we'll see

Other than that, it seems like a great computer

 

No issues with heat really; CPU, fan and disk (7200) are damn silent.

I'd suggest going for the WXGA+ - great value for little difference. Still unsure whether the UPEK reader is worthwhile though.

 

Well, after much research I just ordered the D630 below.

I chose the 1505N card because I figured the 3 wire antennae was more important for future upgrade. The 4965 wasn't offered when I ordered.

Not sure which wireless router to get (for 1505 card) until the N routers improve?

1 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7300 (2.00GHz) 4M L2 Cache, 800MHz Dual Core
1 14.1 inch Wide Screen WXGA+ LCD Panel
1 2.0GB, DDR2-667 SDRAM, 2 DIMMS
1 Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
1 120GB Hard Drive, 9.5MM, 7200RPM
1 Standard Touchpad
1 Genuine Windows Vista® Business, with media
1 Dell Wireless® 360 Bluetooth Module for Vista
1 Dell Slim 65W Auto/Air/AC Adapter
1 24X CD-RW/DVD w/ Cyberlink PowerDVD™
1 Dell Wireless™ 1505 Draft 802.11n Mini Card
1 Microsoft® Office 2007 Basic and Adobe Acrobat 8.1 STD
1 Resource DVD - Contains Diagnostics and Drivers for Vista
1 6 Cell Primary and 6 Cell Media Bay Batteries

 

Well, I received the replacement D630 and big surprise, it has the same damn problem as th other one.

Incredibly annoyed right now

 

You had the issue with the bottom getting hot, right? The one I got is the same. It's not burning hot but quite warm. The fan does a fairly good job of keeping it from getting super-hot though, even under load.

 

The 2 I have been sent were unreasonably hot. The first one was a little hotter than the 2nd, and the fan made noise which apparently isn't normal for the d630.

The 2nd one runs maybe slightly cooler, but when i iopened it up there were fingerprint smudges on the screen and what looks to be a small crack forming on the right bottom corner of the case.

3rd one is on the way, so we'll see

 

Hi Guys, I just got my D630 with the following specs;

Dell D630
C2D T7300
14.1 WXGA+
80GB@7200RPM
2GB@667 MHZ
128MB 135M
Bluetooth
8X DVD+/-RW

I was wondering if anyone else has a pretty loud 8X DVD+/-RW drive. Whenever I put a disc in of any sort (game or music) I hear two pretty loud clicking noises coming from the drive and then a bunch more when it is loading the disc. Does anyone else experience this?

Also that same drive comes up as hardware with the "safely remove hardware" icon on my desktop up at all times, but the only "hardware" that is under it is the 8X DVD drive, is that normal?

Other than that I love this thing. Great build quality and it is super fast. The only other problem I have is that Dell did not give me the bluetooth disc that is required to activate the bluetooth on the laptop, but that is not the laptops fault, it's Dell's!

 

Both disk drives on the 2 D630's were pretty loud yea. The Vostro 1400 had the same thing

I don't recall the remove hardware issue.


edit: i meant disk drives, not hard drives;/