Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge, Part 2

The touch pad has a Zoom in feature which you enable with the mouse option. It's at the other side.. in any case, Crtrl++ in most programs zooms in, Ctrl+0, reset zoom, Ctrl+- zoom out. Also in Win7 Win++ zooms in the screen, Win+- zooms out.

If you get Vista 32-bit you will be stuck with Win7 32-bit.
If you get Vista 64-bit you will be with Win7 64-bit.

Let me help decide..
You purchase a 64-bit CPU, you purchase 4GB of RAM.. therefor it's most logical to use them, right? I mean else, you would simply go with a laptop featuring some early Pentium Dual Core, or Pentium M even with 2GB of RAM.

If you want to use your hardware, you have no choice than to go 64-bit, else you lock down your hardware, and then this laptop becomes a waist of money. And to top things over Vista 32-bit is junk. You can't make an OS at the last minute (from an OS perspective), especially that Vista was originally done in 64-bit. No mather how many Service Pack you put Vista 64-bit it more polished.
WIn7 comes out in a few days. If you can wait for it (october 22), order your laptop then, else buy it now and be eligible for Win7 free upgrade.

 

Something I have installed during the past few days has made hibernation unreliable on my E6400 (Win XP32). It is either BIOS A17 or one of the 21 updates from Microsoft.

John

 

Those of you that are complaining about unresponsive touchpad, it's just a driver issue,. I had the same problem before, then I installed latest driver and also find out that it's the setting touchcheck that was set to high, I lowered this to minimum and now the touchpad is at is supposed to be.

 

I'm more interested in knowing whether the touchpad's size is satisfactory or not.
So far I've read 50 pages of the first thread (50 posts / page), and people commenting the touchpad have not been positive so far. Looks bad. My current laptop has an amazing synaptics touchpad.

 

It's plenty big enough for me. But if you have elephant man hands, it might not be.

 

i HATE the touchpad on this laptop, it's awful compared to synaptics touchpads.

that being said, i love this laptop.

 

Seems I will have to pass, then. A decent touchpad is alfa and omega.

 

I for once think the touchpad is ok, if you make all the right adjustments. Go try it out in a store before making any decisions.

 

Like I said, I like the touchpad. Since Dell has a 21-day (or 30-day, not sure) return policy, why don't you buy it and see if you like it? You can always return it.

 

Yup, and return shipping is free. So really you lose nothing.

I find the touchpad fine after calibration.