Latitude E4300/E6400/E6500 now available in color!

@ ProfessorShred:
I use the E6400 (2,4 GHZ, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB Seagate Momentus 7200.3) with Vista 32 Biz, Traktor Pro, Ableton 7, Numark Total Control & Echo Audiofire 2 @ 6,5 ms with no latency probs at all! No optimizations made (Aero is on!) except for switching off the WLAN (Intel 5100). Just stay away from the Intel Matrix Storage Manager 8.6! Latency peaks up to 10.000!

 

That is good to hear,I just bought an E6400 on ebay for $639 -159.00 using Live.com search and will be looking forward to putting this laptop through its paces

 

Still no regatta blue pictures?

 

I would also like to see pics of a regatta blue model as am trying to decide whether to go for regular black or this color.
Thanks.

 

Finally some pictures of the Regatta Blue on my friend's Dell Latitude E6400.

Top, No Flash


Top, Flash


Skewed, No Flash


Skewed, Flash


Bottom, No Flash


Bottom, Flash


I edited the color balance in these photos to make sure they matched what I see in person. The paint is very reflective, so the color depends a lot on the brightness of the room. You can see this in the color difference between flash and no flash.

 

Here is a link for NoteBook Check review of the E4300
Lots of nice pics in Regatta Blue...enjoy



http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Latitude-E4300-Laptop.13236.0.html

 

That blue looks pretty bright. How does it compare to ''midnight blue" being offered on some of the Inspiron models? Is "midnight blue" a darker blue? I also noticed on the Inspiron 13 it's lid is "pacific blue" but in the photos I've seen "pacific blue" looks more like a purple blue.

 

The Blue is bright in an undesireable way. The first person that saw it said, "you expect your clients to take you seriously with that thing?" I knew it was time to arrange a return.

 

It's a totally different paint from the one on the inspirons, which have a flat paint. The regatta blue looks like it has little pieces of metal in the paint and as such it is very reflective. If it were a flat paint it would be fine because it would stay its dark color (see the no flash pictures), but because its not, it turns that bright blue in bright lighting conditions.