- #DELL LATITUDE E6440 BATTERY LIFE 1080P#
- #DELL LATITUDE E6440 BATTERY LIFE FULL#
- #DELL LATITUDE E6440 BATTERY LIFE SOFTWARE#
I have 16GB of RAM in the machine, which is its maximum. It is a perfect stand alone system that requires no dongles or accessories and I can accomplish 95% of my workload. The built-in features including the optical media drive, which I have used several times and smart card reader are must-haves for me still and this machine just fits the bill perfectly to do all that I need to do. I have the perfect screen real-estate to do all that I need to do. I can adjust the size of text and icons perfectly.
#DELL LATITUDE E6440 BATTERY LIFE 1080P#
I know that there are sharper displays out there but for my purposes, 1080p is the sweet spot.
#DELL LATITUDE E6440 BATTERY LIFE FULL#
Having a full 1080p screen is so nice to have.
#DELL LATITUDE E6440 BATTERY LIFE SOFTWARE#
I often run a couple virtual machines simultaneously to test software on installations of Leap and Tumbleweed in order to not bork my host system. The speed of this machine, for everything I do, is phenomenal. It is very portable, albeit a bit thick compared to the ultra portables out there but they did pack a lot into a small package. This machine is basically the perfect size. I am quite pleased in the battery life of this machine. When running virtual machines it is obviously lower and when I am doing very simple tasks a bit longer but to say I get 5 hours is a safe and conservative estimate. That includes working in LibreOffice, streaming audio or video, Firefox and Chrome with multiple tabs open. It has a 9-cell battery, the age of which I am not certain but I am getting about 5 hours of battery life doing the basic tasks that I require.
I wanted a machine with good battery life and I certainly have that with this machine.
For my tasks, it is running superbly and has been very stable a testament to the openSUSE project. I don’t do much gaming and it is usually retro gaming. I don’t have a fair comparison between the two as I am not running Leap on this machine, only Tumbleweed, If there are some performance increases, that’s great and I appreciate it but those nitty-gritty details are not real important for what I am asking my machine to do. I have seen benchmarks that show openSUSE Tumbleweed is faster than Leap in certain tests. Things just pop, everything loads fast, running on a SSHD, I will be very interested in seeing how it works with a true SSD. I have yet to experience a situation where it feels laggy but I haven’t run more than 2 virtual machines at a time. It is so incredibly buttery smooth and crisp that, in my perspective, looks better than what I have experienced on MacOS or Windows. This machine is running KDE Plasma and it has an incredibly smooth and silky feel to it. When I click-to-open something do I feel like I am waiting on the machine or is it snappy.įirst, which is probably the most important issue is, how does it feel when I use it. Sure,I can monitor my power usage in Kinfocenter and watch the energy consumption and give you an analysis but my usage is likely to be different than yours. What I care about is making it thru a long meeting or half the day or whatever my needs are under specific work conditions. How good is battery life on this machine under typical work loads. What matters to me is how long does it take to boot up or return from suspend.
You can get benchmarks from anyone and as much as I like those numbers they are really pretty meaningless. I realize, this is not a new machine, I believe they were discontinued in 2016 but it is just the right age for me as there will be no hardware surprises. The machine that fit the bill was the Dell Latitude E6440. My minimum, must have requirements for this machine was, dock station capability, built in Smart Card reader, 1080p screen, a removable media bay and in a 14″ platform. Certainly, this is not a popular setup for most but it is what I very much require. I was very specific about the machine I wanted as my replacement. There is only so much you can do to a machine of nearly 10 years to keep it current and some of the surprise battery failures really chapped my hide. It has been a great machine but has been come to the end of its service life. I’m not a very good consumer (unless I’m buying food, I love food) but I really needed a new laptop to replace my beloved, tried and true yet aging, Dell Latitude D630. I needed a new computer and generally don’t like getting new things.
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