Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

Just a note to add on John post because it happened to friend (different laptop), to not have the cloth too wet, as water can penetrate between the LCD screen and the film (the sheet of plastic put in front) from the edge of the screen. In his case, it left watermarks under the screen and had to buy a new laptop screen... it was not cheap to replace.

I do like John.

 

I wonder, how you guys clean the palm rest and keyboard... I am not talking about dust, but finger grease. After some time the keyboard keys get all greased up, and to clean it I use a cloth with a mixture of dish washing soap and water (a bit). But I can't really do any deep clean, so now I have some keys that are "smooth out" even thus I know it's not frame ware, and the palm rest is not more glossy if you know what I mean.

 

I am spoilt, we get these special LCD wipes, they are like those little alcohol based thingies you get at KFC to clean your hands with, but they are specially designed for LCD screens probably cost a fortune, after cleaning my LCD I use it to clean the finger grease off the keyboard and give the whole outside a quick once over.

 

I use the same damp cloth with some detergent. Some of my keys have shiny parts, but I think that is my fingers progressively smoothing the plastic and not any grease.

John

 

Anyone have any trouble with theirs when minimizing and expanding a window, it isn't a smooth transition its kind of choppy?

I installed the latest drivers, I have the Nvidia NVS 160M card in mine. Does this when plugged in, on power saver, high performance, balanced, all the time.

 

ok, Thanks.

Power Option in Windows doesn't touch the GPU.
The problem you face is that Nvidia PowerMizer kicks in and slows down your GPU to minimum speed when idle or low in usage to reduce power consumption. You can, however, modify Nvidia PowerMizer settings. I have made a software called NvGPUPro (it's free, no ads, no install required, doesn't modify or hack the drivers or anything like that), that allows you to modify that (among other things).

4 modes are available for all laptop Nvidia GPU's.
- Have PoweMizer turned on all the time (default).
- Have POoerMizer turned on only when on battery.
- Have PowerMizer turned on only when plug-in.
- Have PowerMizer completed disabled (turned off).

On my system I pick the second choice, allowing me to keep my great battery life, and have full GPU speed when plug-in, especially that this laptop has no problem in managing the extra heat.
You can read more about it from my website, or see on this forum section: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=368384, where my tool was initially released, and see what people are saying about it.

 

So my first complaint so far (which is good) of my e6400 is that the paint is chipping off on the left side speaker, which looks really bad.

I have no idea why it randomly did this, as I barely come into contact with the speakers and the system is only a few months old.

 

The paint on these models is pretty cheap, IMHO. It doesn't hurt the functionality or anything, but it is one of those little things that get to me.

 

In nearly 13 months the only paint I have lost is a little on the front corners, which I think is caused by the zipper on my bag, and a little on the front edge (for which I can't think of a cause). That is less wear than I would expect based on my experience with other notebooks. Maybe the paint on my E6400's chassis had plenty of time to harden while they were waiting for the other components to arrive.

John

 

Meh, I may have gotten a badly painted unit, then. Anyone have suggestions as to what I should do about it (paint/marker etc)? It looks terrible with a circular wheel of paint peeled off.