Dell Inspiron 6400 vs Acer TravelMate 8204
Hi, I have a dell c600 motherboard which does not power up. I purchased a new motherboard on ebay and got the laptop going so am now left with a...
Wow, Google really is my friend. I just entered "Inspiron 6000 display rash" and it brought me right to it.
Here's what it says:
"Though the Inspiron 6000's 15.4-inch wide-screen display comes standard with a WXGA (1,280x768) native resolution, you can also select WSXGA+ (1,600x1,024) or WUXGA (1,920x1,200) resolutions. WUXGA will give you a ton of screen real estate, but text and numbers will be extremely small--proceed with caution. We're keeping an eye on the recent rash of customer complaints about Dell's notebook screens, but we didn't notice any significant problems with the Inspiron 6000."
It's twistier than that, but as the others have pointed out, it'll work reasonably well. If you boot from a Dell restore disk, it won't even ask you for the key, but will use a...
Because that review matched my personal experience, that's why I sometimes mention it hopefully in the right context. Based on my experience with truebrite vs. "usual", I would pick trubrite. It is quite an amazing difference.
I'm glad that the 6400 offers truebrite, and the problems with the Dell displays (outsourced from 3 different vendors) most likely is not finding its way into any current 6000's, buttuming that Dell reacted quickly and identified a bad batch of displays, or whatever ... I'm sure it's been fixed because a lot of people say they love their 6000 screens.
I've had an Inspiron 8600, 600m, 700m, 4000, 4100, and Labreastude D510, so I knew right away that my 6000's display was defective because it was far inferior to any other laptop displays I have had.
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