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Latitude E4300 first impressions

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by cof, Sep 28, 2008.

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  1. Sir Punk

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    yep. I am leaning more and more towards the sony z. what is the REAL weight of the Z?
     
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    Can you also monitor the core temperatures using I8kfanGUI (http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/). My main concern is the heat. Heat is unacceptable given the size of the laptop, and the fact it's going to not be on a desk and (notebook cooler) the vast majority of the time.
     
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    Notebookjournal measured 1,50kg. Another review measured less.
     

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    Prince_Phoenix I have SpeenFan 4.35 installed and it reports the following:

    HD0: 28C
    Core 0: 29C
    Core 1: 29C
    Temp1: 44C

    I think the Temp1 is the ACPI heat sensor (motherboard ?)

    Screenshot attached.
     

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    That's not bad. That's pretty cool. My D820 averages 60. Anything below 50 is fabulous.
     
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    Forgot to mention I was ony running firefox when I ran SpeedFan.
     
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    What would you rate the machine from 1-10 (ignoring the quality issues specific to the manufacturing process)?
     
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    Sir Punk,

    To be honest if the electronic buzz was fixed and I could get 9 to 10 hours of battery life like the sony tz series I could probably stomach the cost - the e4300 does feel like a first class machine let down by some assembly problems and a so so battery life.

    I thought the added weight of a 6 cell battery (340 grams on my scales) would be offset by at least a very long battery life.

    As it stands to get all day computing like some of the Sony TZ's I think you would have to add another 6 cell battery to get something like 11 hours but then that make the e4300 start to weigh more like the e6400.
     
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    Prince_Phoenix,

    I'd have ranked the d630 an 8.5/10 so if build issues (software bloat included) were not a problem AND if the price wasn't so high I might venture a possible 9/10 if were competing with a d630.

    Incidentally I disabled the Alps point device driver and the touchpad lag disappeared.

    I also managed to reduce boot time to 33 seconds by disabling everything in the msconfig startup screen.

    Not sure if its a fluke but after I disabled all the cruft the notebook does seems to running noticably cooler. I can't feel much heat now on the underside of the chassis !
     
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    How do you like the feel of the keyboard, typing on it, compared to the D620?
     
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