Dell Latitude E4200 Info

A review based on Asus newest notebook equipped with the new ULV cpu's:
ASUS U30Jc: Refining Thin and Light Performance - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

Dell can't be far behind

 

Well, it looks like after issues with my D430 I could be getting a e4200. Granted I need to wait and see so I can be sure, but anything I should know about this model? I would like to read all 98 pages, but I don't have that much time on my hands

 

It may be nice to make sure that you are getting a SSD that supports Trim in Windows 7. Mine does not, and Dell has no firmware upgrade for it.

 

Anybody hear anything about the E4210?

Dell just released Arrandale chips on Alienware M11X, so I figured E4210 would be right around the corner but haven't seen any info.

The E4200 running Core 2 Duo when i5 and i7 are out there is tough to swallow

 

All new E4200's are being shipped out with SSD's supporting TRIM.

 

My one-year-old E4200 with the Samsung 64GB SSD has very poor read and write speeds now. The sequential writes are less than 30MB/s. The drive is only 71% full. Is there any tool that can restore performance? The drive does not support Trim. I am running windows 7/64, and have aligned the drive properly using Paragon's alignment tool. Would a fresh OS install help? I guess I am looking for a tool that works like the garbage collection tool in the OCZ drives.

 

Call Dell, tell them your computer won't recognize the drive. They will ship you a new one and it will have TRIM and work a lot better.

Unless you have a problem with telling them something doesn't work when it does.

 

Interesting tactic. Just measured the sequential write speed. It is 22 MB/sec. That is almost not working ).

 

My e4200 is about 6 months old. How do i determine if the drive already supports TRIM or not?

 

Install CrystalDiskInfo. It will tell you.

Crystal Dew World - Software - CrystalDiskInfo