E6400 6-cell vs 9-cell battery

Many thanks allfiredup!

As I didn't have the change to get a real look at both batteries I assumed the 9cell is significantly larger. It's funny, from the photo at p1 of this thread of the E6400 with 9 cell battery it seems much larger than 1.75cm, so I much relief now

If so it seems like a good option anyhow, especially when I've got the 9cell included in the price

 

allfiredup - could you take a picture of one on top of the other (attached to the laptops) so we see the difference? Close and with a view of the whole side of the laptop would show scale. Thanks.

 

Great idea ilkhan!
I'd like to see this aswell.

How's your impression from the LED screen & the Backlit? As I work alot at night this is a must for me I guess.

 

So Dell got that part of their specs right.

So far, I found that the 6 cell gives me enough run time for what I need but the 9 cell would give me a comfort zone, especially when the battery starts to wear.

My WXGA+ LED backlit display is dazzling and the backlit keyboard is very useful, particularly when the lights go out. It is also reckoned to have slightly better action than the non-backlit keyboard.

John

 

Thanks John!
You're helpful as always!

 

Windows XP and Vista 32-bit should not even be an option.
So since SP1, all applications were all patch up for Vista/Win7 64-bit, and drivers are now totally optimized, and now companies like Dell focuses they software under Vista 64-bit rather than the rest.

On this thread I explain my view why you should pick Vista 64-bit rather than any other windows (Well Windows 7 64-bit would be nice, but it's not out yet, and has beta drivers...)
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4446640#post4446640
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4577871#post4577871

Still don't believe me that Vista 64-bit is way better than XP... PM me, and I'll give you some threads link to other forums of computer enthusiasts on their opinion on this OS.

I think 9-cell would be the comfort zone.. because remember that the battery life will drop a bit once you use it... than stabilize, and drop some more when the battery is finish after about 2 years (depending how many time you use the battery, and to what level you empty the battery)

 

Thanks GoodBytes,
A few questions regarding the Vista-64 bit version.
Should I expect any incompatibility issues with some applications on this version? As I use audio & video editing software a long with various desktop utilities, I want to make sure all my applications will work just fine on such OS.

Are there any specific applications which are known to be incompatible with 64bit OS's?

I'll PM you soon as I'll be glad to get more info on 64bit OS

Cheers,
lelchuk

 

Provided you don't have any older printers or other add-on hardware for which 64-bit drivers have never been developed. That's one reason I keep clear of 64-bit Windows. I've got some older hardware at home which I use from time to time and I never know what I may need to connect to when I'm working away from home.

John

 

As John said and as I explained in the links. If you use old devices/peripherals (before 2006), like old printers, they might not work under Vista 64-bit, if they don't have XP 64-bit or Vista 64-bit drivers. In my case my printer HP LaserJet 1012 (purchased in 2005) is not Vista 64-bit compatible... but after some internet digging I found that I could use the provided in Windows HP LaserJet 1015 printer which has Vista 64-bit.. funny thing is that these 2 prints are IDENTICAL in all aspects, just that color is different and was released at the same time as Vista. It's like HP did this on purpose so that people buy a new printer. With these drivers my printer works 100% like it did under XP.

This is just to say that if... one day you fall into such situation, you might find replacement drivers that does the trick. But again, if you have anything newer than 2006 you should not have any problems. Of course, standard mouse and keyboard does not mater I mean these are basic devices.

As for software... if you have the latest versions of your software, you should not have any problem. I did not fell into any issues. You can check your software company website to make sure.. but it should have any problems.

Here are some of my applications that I tested to run perfectly under my Vista 64-bit
Photoshop CS3, Flash CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, LeapFTP, SmartFTP, Winamp 5, Firefox 3, Trillian 3 Basic, Thunderbird, Office 2003 and Office 2007 suite, Jascs PaintShop Pro 7, Eclipse, Visual Studio C++, Zune software, iTunes, VideoLAN, O&O Deaf 10, Logitech SetPoint, DAEMON Tools Lite, Cygwin.

I know that Flash 8, Jascs PaintShop Pro 7, Dreamweaver 8, Steinberg WaveLab 5, all works under Vista 64-bit but their activation software fail to work (so it by-pass as if you purchased the software)

To top things over, Vista offer a real compatibility mode to run your applications under a previous version of Windows. In XP, all it did was just answer the OS version with the one you selected in the box, when the application request it. But in Vista it will do the translation. Heck I even got some Win98 32-bit games that stop working under Windows 2000/XP and now works under Vista with compatibility mode.

So, I'll be REALLY surprised, unless you use some kind of specialized software, that you will fall into any issues if you have the latest version of your applications.

 

As you requested, here are a few photos of both batteries...(I'm not much of a photographer, btw)-