Dell Latitude D630

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Contents 1 laptop description 2 Hardware 3 Features 4 Operating System

[edit] laptop description

I want to emphasize the following features:

• + The special button for volume, mute, and power look prettier arranged.
• + The ambient sensor is something new and it works and provides more comfort.
• + There is a total of 4 USB plugs, which is one more compared to my old D800, which is good.
• + Again compared to my old D800, this one is significantly better for everyday transport, and the slightly smaller screen and resolution does not hurt too much.
•  ? The WiFi Catcher is a nice gadget, but I do not know where it adds a benefit.
• -- VGA Plug: This is so yesterday, I would expect a HDMI plug.

[edit] Hardware

• Serial ATA host adapter
• Ethernet
• Wireless LAN
• Bluetooth
• 3G WAN
• Graphics
• ACPI
• Laptop display
• Audio
• Serial
• CPU
• Graphics
• D630 functions keys
• 4 GB of RAM, 2 * 2GB DDR2-667 SODIMM
• 160 GB S-ATA harddisk with 7200rpm
• The model I received did not contain a Turboboost Flash memory.

Further I disabled several components, as I do not use them:

• No optical drive, which would fit into the Dell Mediabay, which uses an IDE/Parallel ATA connection.
• In the BIOS, disabled booting from Ethernet capability
• Disabled serial adapter in the BIOS
• Disabled Firewire in the kernel
• Disabled the Softmodem

[edit] Features

• D630 Suspend to RAM
• D630 Suspend to disk
• Battery life tuning
• Startup time

[edit] Operating System

Linux is the operating system software installed on my D630.

• Gentoo 2007.0
• patched vanilla kernel 2.6.22.1
• intellinuxwireless iwlwifi driver
• Using Gentoo LiveDVD USB stick
• D630 Installation step by step
• Using Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon AMD64