Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge, Part 2

I have both these computers and have run the SiSoftware Sandra memory bandwidth benchmark on both. There is no significant difference in the result. The bottleneck is the chipset which is slower than DDR2-800 RAM (but faster than the previous Intel chipsets).

It is likely that the next Intel platform will be faster, in which case the DDR3 RAM may be able to show its potential.

John

 

I don't know of any device which will take power from both eSATA / USB and an extra USB port. In my experience the HDDs made within the past 3 years will run off a single USB port. However, I haven't tried any of the most power hungry HDDs (eg 7200rpm).

That's where I bought a red E4300 a few weeks ago. Service was good and the computer was excellent value.

John

 

Red/Blue Latitude E6400 - PC-Card vs. Express Card
1. The black E6400 seems offer a choice of a PC-Card slot or an Express Card slot.
2. The red/blue E6400 seems to require a PC-Card slot.

Is this true? Is the PC-Card slot not compatible with Express Cards? Is there something basic that I do not understand?

Thank you in advance.

 

See this thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=339562

 

pc card slots is different from an express card slot. when i got y machine last feb, i specified pcmcia upon assembly since my evdo was a pcmcia and not an express card

depending on your usage, pick if you want a pc card slot or express card slot

 

Unless you have an existing PCMCIA card to use, go with Express. Everything made as of late is Express Card.

 

Thank you for the reply.

My problem is that want the Express Card slot, however, if I configure the E6400 on the Dell website in either red or blue, I am restricted to ordering the PC-Card slot. This seems to be a very odd restriction. Is this a glitch in Dell's online configuration program or is it actually not possible to get an Express Card slot in a red or blue E6400?

 

It's probably Dell's website. You can order by phone and I'm positive they will allow you to get a blue or red E6400 with an Express Card slot.

 

Thanks, good to know...expecting delivery somewhere this week My first outlet purchase so pretty curious to see the state it's in.

 

I know this. In terms of real world's performances, it's not a big problem, for me, to have 800 Mhz ram instead of 1066.
What I wonder is why e6400, medium-top class business laptop, get 800 mhz bandwidht (with cpu's front side bus at 1066 mhz) and e4300 (same "Latitude" family and same chipset) or xps 13" or macbook pro do have 1066.
It's more an engineering (or marketing) question than a notebook's daily using or benchmarking question.
Regards