Recall, if you will, Dell's
aluminum-clad E6500: a mobile workhorse that some rank as highly, if not higher than Lenovo's venerable ThinkPad line (albeit with one
slight hiccup in its
service history). Well, the company has quite rightly decided that it's time to freshen things up with a new model, so let us all say a big
howareya to the E6510. Code-named Margaux and bearing the product code PP30LA, this machine's journey through the FCC reveals Compal as its manufacturer, Intel and Windows as the major hardware and software providers (no surprises there), and a seemingly unaltered touchpad from the previous generation. The battery label seems to indicate a cool 6,700mAh of juice, while connectivity is taken care of with WiFi, WWAN and a UWB/Bluetooth combo card, with the latter two likely being optional extras. All in all, it's looking like a competent new outing from Dell, now let's just jack that
Core i5 in there and start selling these babies.
Update: The E6410, aka Rothschild, aka PP27LA, has also slinked its way through the American certification committee, though it appears to bear a smaller maximum battery capacity of 4,600 mAh and no UWB option when compared to its larger-screened brother. Skip past the break for a visual of its internal arrangement.
posted February 1st 2010 4:57AM
the same for the m4500 ??
@seb87 I'd say so. The Latitude / Precision both use the same chassis, just cosmetic differences on the lids and different GPU/Display configs.
seems fine...
These look nice. Not the keyboard tho. It looks very 1998.
This is the first time I've seen the word spelled "hickup". It isn't wrong, just that it is more frequently spelled "hiccough" or "hiccup".
@ZSX except in Texas
any info about the m4500 ??
As always, no trackpoint, no sale. I know this limits my choices considerably but I just can't live w/o one in a laptop.
Oh, second look reveals it does have one, yay.
What is that weird shape? an expansion slot? I don't know that this would fit in a bag without a fight.
Anyways, nice of Dell to stay clear of rectangles. I guess.
I hope they keep the RFID there for when I plan to tear it out.
>=|
That blacktop chip thingy I am reading to be some form of low-powered Linux ...
Anyone care to go into detail?
@Brian J
It's Latitude ON.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude_ON
It's too bad if they keep the trackpad, that's one of the major sore points among current owners. There are a lot of complaints on forums that the Alps track pad sometimes decides to stop registering properly, and sometimes clicks on its own. Synaptics has always put out a higher quality product.
On the plus side, I'm glad to see they seem to have kept the overall design, which is great. A single screw that opens up the entire case for a laptop, allowing you to add and remove components. Incredibly cool, and very convenient.
Our university pretty much forces the e6400 and e6500 on us...and I must say they've impressed. Gripes though: the trackpad which sometimes spazzes out, the tinny speakers, and displayport over hdmi....yes I realize its a business laptop...but still...hdmi would be nice.
I'm sorry, is Engadget referring to the same E6500 that I think they are?
Because I was involved in a deployment of about ~1000 E6500s, and they were MUCH less solid than, say, ThinkPad T500s, had very mushy keyboards, and issued random keypresses and mouse clicks.
That's the BASICS that they got wrong.
@bhtooefr Exx0x means that it's a first-generation E-series product. You've got to expect random crap when they complete toss away everything that worked well about the D-series.
WPAN, thats a new one, never seen it described as that, it was allways confusing anyways, i guess another way to trick the consumer into buying what they allready have by renaming it, kind of like pcmcia.