Dell Latitude E4200 Info

Do you have any pictures? Do you love the machine??? Any regrets?

 

HELP!

I moved my old SSD into the replacement, and it is working great, however something about power option has been changed.. When the battery is low, it hibernates by itself without any notice or option for user to abort it, it is very annoying, and I couldn't find out how to fix this.

My previous E4200 does not do this (it gives me warning and ask me to plug in AC power), and I didn't have to change anything in the power managment for it to do that.

 

Hannay, please do post some pics of the BLUE E4200! I'd love to see some real "live' pics too!

 

Ditto Hannay!!! xo

 

You should check your BIOS to see what the power options are but in general the Hibernate option is from your power settings in Vista. In Control Panel-->Power--Change 'current' plan settings-->Change advanced settings-->It is somewhere under the Battery options. You choose to hibernate, suspend or nothing at a specific battery level in percent. I believe the default is 5%.

Note that if your battery is wearing out, it can wreak havoc with this option. One moment you are working away at 15% battery left but a worn battery doesn't report this information accurately so the next minute you are at the 5% mark and the computer goes into Hibernate without warning.

 

Just got my refurb E4200 today. I ordered wednesday night and I got it saturday afternoon. Amazing!

E4200 with Asus EEE PC 1000H pics:

http://chrissze.multiply.com/photos/album/9

 

I also got an added bonus. My laptop came with 2 gigs of RAM!!!

 

Great pics, man and 'gratz!

 

I've added some benchmarks and temps.

 

Thanks!

Do you think there'll be a huge speed booost if I go from 2GB to 3GB of RAM? Right now, with 2GB, everything seems to be fast... This is the first time im using an SSD and it really makes a huge difference in speed..