E4310 Owner's Lounge

I would have assumed the E4300 was targeted towards the same type of users, given the systems apps and managers available for it. I do understand the cycle length at 3 to 4 years. My old Dell D510 was long in the tooth when I inherited it... A few upgrades kept it alive till I was able to finagle the E4300. That finished about a 5 year cycle that started and died with a Dell Inspiron 6000. Weird choice but thats what I was given. It was one of the units with the LCD failure issues.

Moving to the E4300 was like going from your fathers Oldsmobile to an Audi.

 

My thoughts entirely.

I would recommend that they quickly buy the E4300 while it is still available. The 16:9 display will come as a very big shock for those who are used to 4:3.

John

 

Or even 16:10...768 pixels high? SERIOUSLY??

 

If users are migrating from 1024 x 768 then they will be used to the height but may just wonder what to do with all that extra width.

John

 

True, but 1024x768 is more of a 12" screen's resolution. Granted, 13" didn't exist in 4:3, but I hate how it's called "widescreen" when it's really "shortscreen" and you end up with less pixels.

Then again, consumers drive the market, and the business sector falls victim to consumer preferences.

 

"Then again, consumers drive the market, and the business sector falls victim to consumer preferences. "

Ha, that's the quote of the week for me! B2B must always remember that in the end, were all consumers. For better or worse, and in this case...

 

True, but they are two different groups of "consumers." I can't see of any reason other than cost (keeping two lines of screen formats) to introduce 16:9 to business machines.

 

The processor and video speed increase is pretty fairly substantial. Check out some benchmarks - Intel Arrandale: 32nm for Notebooks, Core i5 540M Reviewed - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News .

The 3 year battery service life of the e4310 is very welcomed. It also has the new express charge which is nice if you were charging in airports 30min at a time.

My Dell rep was able to get one for us to look at and it seems really well built. Small, but sturdy if that makes sense.

The screen going from 1280x800 (1.024mp) to 1366x768 (1.049mp) is a push to me. They are both 13.3, but the e4310 is slightly wider and shorter.

Seeing the displays of the e4300 and e4310 side by side is no where near shocking. I don't think average end users would even notice the 2% more pixels on the e4310.

They probably will notice the mic and headphone jacks being united. I don't really care for this change. I guess videoconferencing would have them using the mic built into the display, but most headsets still have separate jacks for phones and mic.

Wish it had a display-port out so we could use dvi-d and vga adapters. Then again, adapters are easy to lose and vga is still the standard for projectors. You can get Displayport and DVI-D with an e/port dock.

It looks like the price is the same or slightly cheaper than the e4300.

 

The main point here is that it uses the new Intel architecture which is supposed to consume less energy than the precedent generation.
So it means that the top argument for E4310 is to get more battery time than with the E4300 (which is still very good).
Anyone there tested this element?
Otherwise I agree with the fact that a 16/9 display is not the best for business purposes. You use these kind of laptops to edit documents not to watch movies.

 

The best indicator so far is that E6410 owners are not reporting better battery time that could be obtained from the E6400. Perhaps the situation will change as Intel's fabrication process evolves.

John