Good news for Latitude X1 owners!

Yes, the KingSpec fits right in, no adapter required.

 

Sorry for keeping this old thread alive, but I just had to.
I tried the 2G trick and it didn't work until I updated the bios from 05 -> 06. Now it's happy, reporting 1.99GB.

I also installed the Kingston 60GB SSD, which I'm not particularly thrilled with. It sometimes takes a long time to cough up whatever the CPU is waiting for. Sometime boot, sometimes application switching. Browsers are real memory hogs and sometimes I'm running 2 of them, Chrome and FF. Oh, Windoze XP SP3.

OK, a question. I get an error from the TPM application, "Initialization of the PSD access failed" How do I turn the fool thing off?

And another question. I was surprised to see the picture of an X1 with a small battery. Mine has a bulbous thing that hangs out the back. 3+ hours is nice, but I'd rather have light. So where do I get the smaller battery? Don't see them on ebay.

 

It's great to see some enthusiastic Dell X1 owners. My main gripe with them was the power jack wearing out, and a few hard drives failing, out of the many X1's I've distributed. I still love XP Performance Edition by TJ if you can find it. Chrome is a memory hog, every tab is like another browser, I stick with Firefox and rarely IE8 when required for specific sites. No idea on the TPM, I assumed you looked through every option in the BIOS?

The small battery is only 1 to 1.5 hours so not too great but you can still buy them on ebay here:
New Genuine Dell Latitude x1 11 1v Type U6256 2400mAh Battery X6753 312 0341 | eBay

I'm still very happy with the Dell Latitude E4200's as I type on one now that I've used over 2 years, dropped it many times, upgraded to 256GB SSD from 128GB SSD, 4GB RAM, it's very fast and solid. Some even have webcam built in, power jack is very robust and on the back which is much better design. There's a bunch on ebay right now on auction with Ubuntu, usually go for $150-$200 lately so if you can get one for less it's a steal. These things will last a very long time, much longer than the X1.

 

So great to find this thread! I was about to chuck mine away due to termination of XP support but am definitely not going to now! I love this machine and I have used it with original spec (apart from changing up to 1GB RAM years ago) right up til now, mainly as netbook and study buddy. Original battery still got an hour and a half in it with brightest screen as I bought a high performance one early on which is now quite shot.

So I am going to get 2 GB RAM and a 120GB SSD I guess! When uprgading OS, should I go straight to WIN 8.1 or stick to WIN 7? Is WIn 8 much hungrier?

I have to say the one major gripe I have had with this baby is that I have been unable to play video from quite early on. Could it have been to do with the 1GB RAM upgrade? I thought it was just that the chipset was integrated with the videocard and so could not be upgraded and performed poorly...?

Do people really think this still has a future in 2014 (most posts are from 2008!)

Chris:thumbsup:

 

"Do people really think this still has a future in 2014 (most posts are from 2008!)"

I don't actually use my X1 anymore. I have installed Win7, but i can't find a screen-driver that displays the picture correct. The newest intel-driver is to old, and there is not any newer driver.

If someone know a fix to this, i would reconcider use it again.

/Rune

 

It's been a long time, but it might have been i installed Vista drivers in compatibility mode (was 2010 when i installed Win7):
Windows 7 driver for Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator - Microsoft Community
Anyway, i sold my X1 last week: CPU performance was just too low for my taste at this day and age.

 

Hello guys.
I've just bought an X1 in good condition real cheap, installed a 1GB RAM module that I had and planning to buy a 2gig one.
My problem is, the shared video memory is reported as only 8MB, and I am unable to find any option in BIOS (it has the latest A06) to increase it. In manual says that even 128MB is possible, but how?
Second issue that I noticed is the extremly shallow viewing angle especially vertically.
Can't really find a spot from where the whole screen is entirely viewable. Really annoying.
I guess the display has only one backlight tube? (it feels like it has 2 but one is failing..)
Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks!
Regards, szabi.

 

One more thing, the laptop is getting real hot after 10-20 minutes of use. Especially the bottom part.
I took it apart, and it still has the original thermal pads. (they are soft not hardened like i saw on some desktop PC's)
Should I remove the pads, and aply thermal paste, or leave as it is?

 

Is the heat exchanger on throroughly clogged up?

There's a nice photo here of what I mean.

John

 

The X1 has only passive cooling, so no dust comes in or gets out.
It has a thin piece of metal with an integrated copper tube for cooling.

Any idea for the shared video memory size?