Dell Inspiron 6400 battery

Dell's AC adapter plugs are crap. If you need to buy one, buy the RocketFish one that has all the different adapters to work on different laptops. My husband went through the dell ones like water until a coworker told him to buy the RocketFish. It was $100 as opposed to $70 for the Dell one, but it also didn't die in four months.

I can't help with the Dell Inspiron 6400 battery , though, although I will say that the battery on my Asus laptop is 18 months old and going strong, so I'd be pretty upset if it died after only 6 months. Did you buy it at Best Buy or something where you might have paid for an extended warranty? I wouldn't know where to go hunting for the info for a friend. But her 13 month old 17" Dell Laptop is having battery issues - she never thought it would have been covered by her warranty, so she didn't call.

She is just ready to have to buy a new one - and doens't want to spend $160.

THought i'd ask if someone could either point me to some reading for her - or at least say if they are having similar issues. If it was a Mac, she'd be getting a new one.Dell was probably the company that was hit worst by last years battery problems (apart from Sony who was the cause of all the mess). You should most definitely check if that battery is covered by any battery replacement program. And a Dell Latitude D830 Battery shouldn't wear out after 13 months.

On the other hand, check if Dell has any recommendations how to improve the life of your battery, like Apple has. I find it hard to believe that she could hit the cycle life on it already too. I'll hunt around for some calibration type stuff for her. But she's getting less than an hour of battery life on it, and she works full time so only uses it in the evenings.


I have a 15'' Dell Inspiron purchased in June 06 and I already had one battery replaced because it was wearing out and the warning light was on. This happened in like February.

Tell her to go on their support chat. I went on there and they sent me a new battery no problem.I've got an original macbook 1.83 that I forgot I had in my electronic parts container. It works completely but it has these little horizontal lines that are moving/flickering but that go away depending on the background color.

The lines don't show up in screen shot images, and I don't have the right Dell Inspiron 1501 battery/dongle to test it with an external monitor.

The following three images are taken with my phone to show the issue.
Anyone with knowledge on what could be causing this particular screen issue please chime in.For example, if I was opening a 250MB PDF? or a 50MB JPEG image in adobe reader or photoshop would they
open instantly or lightning quick? compared to what it would take for my hard drive? like what's the difference,
2 seconds for HD, 1 second for SSD? I'm not sure. Are there any good benchmarks? I'll google for that soon.

I live in Australia, so I'll be purchasing them from NewEgg and having them shipped (obviously),
I'd like to get one 160GB for my OSX (SL, which will be installed brand new), and a 160GB or 80GB for my Windows 7 partition...
I'd also like to get one for my dad, I think it will benefit him a lot, he takes a lot of high res photos,
imports those photos over, batch processes them, opens them up in PS, and does a lot of editing and other stuff with Dell Latitude D820 Battery & Illustrator, etc...