D630 Owners Thread

6 hours is a bit of an over estimate, I can get about 4-4.5 hours off of my 6 cell with the brightness down 5 notches, wireless on, and working with Firefox / Word sort of stuff. I've got the media bay battery as well, and Vista estimates about 10 hours of life with the same usage / settings, but I haven't done any actual tests. It's a long time.

 

Me again, anybody an idea if there re probs running vista 64 with the fingerprint reader?

Cheers and thanks

 

Dell pushed my ship date back 2 weeks.

 

Just joined the D630 club. Had a T61 on order but Lenovo really doesn't have their act together (shipping delays, customer service). Bought this D630 from the outlet today...

Latitude D630 Notebook: Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 (2.00GHz) 4M L2 Cache, 800MHz Dual Core
Logitech 2-Button USB Optical Mouse
Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Genuine Windows XP Home
24X CD RW/DVD Combo Drive
120 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
9 Cell Battery, Primary
14.1 inch Wide Screen WXGA+ Notebook Screen
1490 Wireless Card
1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz (1 DIMM)

for $676

 

Wow! That's a great machine for an awesome price - Congrats and welcome to the club !

 

I dont think the travel lite module has any electronics....I can't justify spending tht sort of money on an item tht only allows you to save a few grams. Its not like you can feel >200g....which incidentally is the weight difference between the 9 cell and 6 cell battery.

The good thing about the 9 cell battery, it makes the laptop a lot more balanced. With my other notebooks, there is a constant "fear" that it might tip over if you are using it on your lap.

 

This machine is just amazing. No programs have crashed, Vista has not crashed, temperatures are low, and very quiet system.

Dell has done well with this system.

Anyway....now I see that Windows Update has an option to upgrade the Quadro 135M Drivers. I'm still using the .143 version. Which one is better? Has anyone upgraded automatically to the Windows Update drivers?

Best,
Ilham

 

I have, and the graphics index topped from 3.2 to 4.0 amazing!

 

Just bought mine, but i turned out DEFECTIVE !

It had a PATCH on the screen running from TOP to BOTTOM 5cms wide on the extreme right hand of the screen - REVOLTING !!

...and it was straight out of the box.

What ever happened to DELL QUALITY CONTROL ?!

Waiting for the replacement - still think it is a good laptop.

Mave

 

Maverick27. are you using Vista? with the sidebar? IF you are, it means it the sidebar. Try removing the sidebar and see if its still there. DELL is currently rushing thier production of units. Even for myself this is my 2nd replacement unit with an engineer onsite changing my base twice due to some issues. As long as you have the warranty on from DELL. There's nothing to worry about.