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DELL LATITUDE E6400
LAPTOP COMPUTER
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Dell Latitude E6400 Laptop Computer, retail $217.88 (www.dell.com...) (actual retail when new $1,379.00)
Manufactured by Dell (www.dell.com)
Last updated 10-23-19

This product does not emit light of its own, so the standard review format will not be used and the product will not be assigned a rating. This website is mostly about light-emitting products, but occasionally, you'll see non-light emitting products on it too if it's something I use regularly and/or really like (this computer meets both of those criteria!). It *DOES* have several LEDs in it, so it's at least a bit germane to the theme of this website.

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

General
Packaged Quantity 1.0
System Type Notebook
OS Provided Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Notebook type Thin-and-light (3-5 lbs.)
Screen type Widescreen
Wireless capabilities IEEE 802.11g, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11b
Processor / Chipset
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 / 2.53 GHz
Number of Cores Dual-Core
Cache L2 cache - 3.0 MB
64-bit Computing Yes
Front Side Bus 1066.0 MHz

Chipset
 Intel P45 Express Memory
RAM 2.0 GB ( 1 x 2 GB )
Max RAM Supported 8.0 GB
Technology DDR2 SDRAM
Speed 800.0 MHz
Slots Qty 2

Storage
Floppy Drive None
Hard Drive 250.0 GB HDD / 7200.0 rpm
Interface Serial ATA-300
Storage Removable None
Optical Drive DVD+/-RW - Fixed
Read Speed 8X
Optical Drive (2nd) None
Hard drive type Portable

Environmental Parameters
Min Operating Temperature 32.0 °F
Max Operating Temperature 95.0 °F
Humidity Range Operating 10 - 90%
Shock Tolerance 140.0 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 160.0 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance 0.66 g @ RMS (random) (operating) / 1.3 g @ RMS (random) (non-operating)

Display
Type 14.1 in
LCD Backlight Technology LED backlight
Max Resolution 1440 x 900 ( WXGA+ )
Widescreen Yes
Features UltraSharp

Audio & Video
Graphics Processor NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M - 256.0 MB
Sound Stereo speakers , Microphone
Compliant Standards High Definition Audio

Input
Type Touchpad,
Keyboard

Communications
Wireless 802.11b/g
Wireless Controller Dell Wireless 1397
Network Interface Gigabit Ethernet

Battery
Technology 6-cell Lithium ion
Capacity 54.0 Wh

AC Adapter
Voltage Required AC 120/230 volts 50/60 Hz

Connections & Expansion
Slots 1.0 x Memory
2.0 x ExpressCard/54
Interfaces 1.0 x Display / video - eSATA - Mini-phone 3.5 mm,
1.0 x Network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - 4 pin USB Type A,
1.0 x Audio - Line-out/headphones - RJ-45,
1.0 x Hi-Speed USB - Input - Mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm,
4.0 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire) - VGA - 4 pin FireWire,
1.0 x Display / video - S-video output - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15),
1.0 x Storage,
1.0 x Microphone,
1.0 x Docking / port replicator
Memory Card Reader 5 in 1 card reader

Software
Software Included Drivers & Utilities
Windows XP Professional

Miscellaneous
Color Brushed metal black
Embedded Security Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2) Security Chip
Features Security lock slot (cable lock sold separately)

Dimensions & Weight
Width 13.2 in
Depth 9.4 in
Height 1.2 in
Weight 4.4 lbs

Manufacturer Warranty
Service & Support 3 years warranty

The Dell Latitude E6400 is designed to be used as a laptop computer (and I should say not exactly an "el-cheapo" model either!), not as flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused; so I won't try to drown it in the cistern (toliet tank), bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a carport, let my mother's big dog's ghost, her kitty cats, my kitty cat, or my sister's kitty cat spring a leak (uranate) all over it, run over it with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium or large ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again

- candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

In fact, those photographs on this web page and the spectrographic analyses located directly below may very well be it.

Spectrographic analysis of the LCD screen displaying 'red'.

Spectrographic analysis of the LCD screen displaying 'green'.

Spectrographic analysis of the LCD screen displaying 'blue'.

Spectrographic analysis of the LCD screen displaying 'white'.

Spectrographic analysis of the LCD screen displaying 'red'; different viewing angle used.

The raw spectrometer data (comma-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at /42/newcpur.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the LCD screen displaying 'green; different viewing angle used'.

The raw spectrometer data (comma-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at /42/newcpug.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the LCD screen displaying 'blue'; different viewing angle used.

The raw spectrometer data (comma-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at /42/newcpub.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the LCD screen displaying 'white'; different viewing angle used.

The raw spectrometer data (comma-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at /42/newcpuw.txt

TEST NOTES:
Unit was donated by an anonymous person after my old faithful Emachines computer started getting cranky & pissy (slowing down like molasses in February, giving unrecoverable I/O errors, requiring frequent restarts, etc.), and was received on 05-21-13 (or, "2013 21 May" or even, "May 21, Twenty Stick-Boobs" if you prefer.

This will be the first new web page published almost exclusively on the new computer. I say, "almost" here because I still used the old computer to perform spectroscopy until I can get the spectrometer's software installed on this one.

UPDATE: 05-29-13
Performed multiple spectrographic analyses of its monitor using different viewing angle; also recorded .TXT spectrometer data files for each primary color (red, green, and blue) plus white.

UPDATE: 02-08-15
After the Windows XP operating system went to pot about ten days ago, I installed Ubuntu Linux on it -- therefore it can be properly called a, "Linux box" now instead of a, "Windows box".

UPDATE: 10-28-15
It's alive!
IT'S ALIVE!!!
I did a fresh install of Windows XP Professional (that took no fewer than five attempts!) and it finally 'took'. The onboard WiFi is shot, but I plugged in a USB WiFi dongle and installed the software for it, and I can finally get on the web.

I discovered that Microsoft Internet Explorer was blocking all Google websites (such as Gmail and YouTube; and it would not allow Google Chrome to install; but I was able to successfuly install Chrome Mobile from a USB flash drive and it installed on this computer; from there I was able to download & install the regular Chrome browser I'd been using.)

It needs more RAM (which I'll get when I have the $$$) but it appears to function properly as-is.

UPDATE: 10-13-16
On 09-27-16, I was processing a video shot by my drone, and the computer mysteriously crashed with a BSOD. So I cold-started it ( a normal procedure to boot after a BSOD) and was presented with this:

So I purchased a Windows XP recovery CD, which came on 10-11-16, but when I ran it, one or more files on it were corrupted -- rendering it unable to finish or boot. Subsequently I'm stuck with no computer probably until early- to mid-November.

UPDATE: 10-23-19
Product was stolen in Shelton WA. USA while awaiting shipping to me in Fresno CA. USA.
Therefore, the dreadful, "

" icon must be appended to its listings on this website, denoting the fact that some true-blue total asshaberdasher has kyped it -- probably to sell for drug money if who I suspect stole it indeed did it.

Dell

Laptop/notebook computer

N/A

Lots of momentary switches (keys)

Plastic & metal

N/A

1x Li:ION battery; voltage & current sinking (capacity) unknown

Unknown/unable to measure

Very light splatter-resistant at maximum

FOR CHRIST SAKES NO!!!

Custom Windows & other software CD

13.20" W x 9.40" D x 1.20" Thick

4.40 lbs

China

1 year

Product is not intended to be used as a light emitter,
so the conventional "star" rating will not be used.

Dell Latitude E6400 Laptop Computer * www.dell.com...

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