Dell Latitude E6410 and E6510 emerge overseas, Core i5 / i7 and all

We spotted this suit-and-tie wearing pair sneaking through the FCC's lairs a few weeks ago, and now we know the whens and wheres of buying one... in the UK, anyway. The Dell Latitude E6410 is currently listed with a base price of £749 ($1,128) and features a 14.1-inch display (WXGA and WXGA+ options), a Core i5 or Core i7 processor, Windows Vista or 7, a pair of DDR3 RAM slots, NVIDIA's NVS 3100M (512MB) graphics, a variety of storage options, a Blu-ray or DVD drive, optional mobile broadband and all the expected ports around the edges. The E6510 steps up to a 15.6-inch panel (with a 1080p version selectable) and offers up a few extra CPU options, but otherwise it's identical. There's no word on when these kind fellows will make their way stateside, but if we were the betting type, we'd put our pounds and / or greenbacks on "real soon."

[Atkins Posted Mar 30th 2010 8:49AM]

Nice design, reminds me a bit of Lenovo. Black, angles, functional... I like this.

[albinomexi Posted Mar 30th 2010 8:49AM]

Windows vista as an option? Who's gonna be the idiot to get that? I at least expect win7 as the main OS

[chanceusc Posted Mar 30th 2010 8:58AM]

@albinomexi

It says or 7

[Kelmon Posted Mar 30th 2010 10:22AM]

@albinomexi

Welcome to corporate IT. Windows 7 still is not approved for use in my company but Vista is, and therefore a Vista option is what my company would want. Not everything that works with Windows Vista works with Windows 7, as strange as that may sound (Mercury Quality Center 9, for example, just doesn't play with IE8) and that is what seems to be holding back our Windows 7 deployment. Frankly, I'm still stuck with bloody XP...

[jennykelikans Posted Apr 2nd 2010 8:58AM]

@albinomexi Aesthetically the E6510 and E6410 do not differ much from their predecessors; at this point the major updates are the new Intel processors, upgrade graphics cards, and for the E6510, 16:9 aspect ratio screens with slightly reduced resolution vs. the outgoing 16:10 E6500.
More about the E6410: http://bit.ly/dell-latitude-e6410-prev

[dontbecreepy Posted Mar 30th 2010 8:59AM]

I was told by our Dell Rep. in government sales it will not ship in the US until Mid April.

[gerrrg Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:00AM]

I just don't get why they don't offer HDMI in their Latitude and Vostro lines; VGA just seems old school.

[Herbaceous Border Patrol Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:07AM]

@gerrrg
It may be old school, but show me the Ramada Inn conference room projector that's rocking HDMI, and I'll eat my cat.

[TechGuySteve Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:08AM]

@gerrrg

My E6500 has a display port on the back of it, which can also be used as HDMI or DVI with the right cable. As I assume this new revision will share similar connections (as it looks identical to mine), this new laptop will support VGA, DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI. Can't get much better than that ;-)

[gerrrg Posted Mar 30th 2010 11:02AM]

@Herbaceous Border Patrol

I hate cat; too stringy.

[bachviet Posted Mar 30th 2010 11:49AM]

@gerrrg Actually the new Vostro line (3400, 3500, and 3700) does have HDMI out.

[RobJ Posted Mar 30th 2010 1:19PM]

@gerrrg: It doesn't have HDMI because it has Display Port. Still a poor choice by Dell. Does anyone actually use Display Port?

[xirsteon Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:08AM]

I have the E6400 (XP) for work and there was a recent BIOS update that apparently fixes the overheating issues. I hope they fixed the issue on these newer models.

Mine does have display port and e-sata which I haven't even used as all monitors here are dvi / vga

[lerker Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:19AM]

@xirsteon

I have an E6400 as well, got it a few months ago... no overheating issues to report.

[XRX Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:17AM]

old design

[lerker Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:19AM]

@XRX

that should read "old (but good) design"

[3pxshift Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:22AM]

@Atkins

old design. yawn.

[chase1963 Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:23AM]

I've always owned Dell's but, the new Elitebooks smoke this in design.

[Very Powerfull Codfish Posted Mar 30th 2010 8:17PM]

@chase1963

I have an Elitebook...and it sucks. It may be THE worst computer at that pricing. At least with the config my school gives me.

[anandmu Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:25AM]

Its already available at the US site...
http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/notebooks/latitude-e6510/pd.aspx?refid=latitude-e6510&s=biz&cs=555
http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/notebooks/latitude-e6410/pd.aspx?refid=latitude-e6410&s=biz&cs=555

[edoles Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:44AM]

@anandmu

Win7 Pro 32-bit.... that doesn't seem right? Why not 64?

[edoles Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:46AM]

@edoles

Edit: You can customize it to have 64, but I expected it would be standard on this type of machine.

[3doog Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:31AM]

The new precision M4500 is also out

[steveparker Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:34AM]

This is very nice model of Dell I also have Dell Inpiron laptop it fulfills my all requirements, well thanks for letting us know about it. Few months ago I bought computer accessories at consumer electronics store.

[Kelmon Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:42AM]

Avoid. I have an E6400 and it is so unbelievably slow even with a C2D 2.4GHz processor and 4GB RAM. It looks nice in the pictures but it really is cheap black plastic. The only good thing that I have to say about it is that the battery life is excellent. While the model in the article is newer (obviously) I have a hard time believing that the real world performance will live up to the specification on paper. Certainly this laptop is much slower than I was expecting.

[Kelmon Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:43AM]

@Kelmon

Oh, and don't get me started on the speakers of this thing. I'm not expecting Bose or the like but silence is better than what this thing does to music. Tinny doesn't even begin to describe it.

[archkron Posted Mar 30th 2010 12:47PM]

@Kelmon

I've the E5400 with a 2.8GHz C2D and it's fine... A processor is a processor, it's probably what you've done to Windows which makes it slow (Dell don't bundle any bloatware with their professional line).

It's also a business laptop, hence the poor speakers.

The remote management features are also great. But hey, to each their own, right?

[Kelmon Posted Mar 30th 2010 1:23PM]

@archkron

With all due respect, I've not done anything with Windows that isn't normal. There is no excuse for it being as slow as this. I used to run a virtualised instance of Windows on a 2.33GHz C2D with 1GB RAM assigned, using the same software, and it was no slower (hardly a speed demon either). I realise that a virginal PC is always going to be faster but this is a real world scenario and the E6400 is, frankly, rubbish so I have no reason to suppose that these new versions will be any different.

So, feel free to buy if you just want to run Notepad but my advice is to look elsewhere if you want to put MS Office on it.

[Rollins Posted Mar 31st 2010 11:28AM]

@Kelmon

It's clear that you did something to your machine's Windows installation to slow it down. I work at a university that has deployed a large number of E6400s, and even with our software package they're quite snappy.

Like archkron said, a processor is a processor. Two computers from different companies with the same specs will run the same given the same software.

Not that I'd assume that this is the case with you, but it honestly sounds like you have some sort of beef with Dell.

[Kelmon Posted Mar 31st 2010 11:47AM]

@Rollins

"It's clear that you did something to your machine's Windows installation to slow it down."

Like what? As I said, there is nothing unusual installed on this PC that I would not expect to be installed on a business laptop (home users can skip some of the crap, of course). On the other hand, it is possible that I am expecting better performance than what is possible on this machine. However, I don't think you could ever call this machine "snappy".

To be fair, my "beef" with Dell is that all the machines I have had from them over the years (another Latitude and an Optiplex in the past) have been very poor. I was hoping for better things with the new laptop but I have not seen it. As I said, my recommendation is to avoid these computers. If these are considered to be good then I honestly shudder to think what a bad computer would be like.

[hmmwv Posted Mar 30th 2010 9:46AM]

@Atkins Agree, looks very similar with Thinkpad SL510, the perfect low profile looks a business professional needs.

[onesolo Posted Mar 30th 2010 10:05AM]

I just got a new E6400 a few days ago to Dell Portugal!!!
The new E6410 is also available here in Portugal, urray Dell!!!
I think I'm going to return it cause I want the E6410!!!!

[spikethemonkey Posted Mar 30th 2010 10:25AM]

Looks like Dell just posted it on their website - looking forward to picking up the 6510. My old inspiron needs to be retired to green pastures

[niclet Posted Mar 30th 2010 11:07AM]

Still, it needs a paper pad to be full functional.

[rcc Posted Mar 30th 2010 3:17PM]

It seems like I've been in the market for a new laptop for........ forever. I've always owned Dells - bought three Studio XPS from the outlet last year for my family. But for my main productivity lappie, I'm really struggling grabbing another one. I love the extended warranty options and related service, the customer support is more than workable (once you elevate past foreign-speaking Level I - no offence intended), no complaints with workmanship.

Of course, you have to go through the Home side to get ANYTHING you wouldn't be embarrassed to pull out in a meeting (but I acknowledge their efforts to change that with announcements such as outlined in this article). BUT..... And here's the 'but'...

It is has become impossible to ignore the HUGE price difference b/t comparable models offered by state-side vendors (specifically Dell and HP) vs. (e.g.) an ASUS. I HATE it, but we're talk 30% to 100% and I can't ignore that any more.

Plus, it just seems that the basic configurations at Dell and HP are really lacking vs. Asian manufacturers. For example, the vid card on this Dell model is low-range, Class 3 CRAP. And, as I am reminded often by my MSFT executive neighbor, 8GB memory and 64-bit OS should be the absolute starting memory on ANY Win 7 box??

Anyway..... Just needed to rant about this a bit.

[SpoonmanTX Posted Mar 30th 2010 5:11PM]

Your real soon needs to be updated, Public sector and Large Enterprise have it on their websites now:

http://www.dell.com/us/en/healthcare/notebooks/latitude_e/cp.aspx?refid=latitude_e&s=hea&cs=RC968571

http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/notebooks/latitude_e/cp.aspx?refid=latitude_e&s=biz&cs=555

[dhackney Posted Mar 31st 2010 3:17PM]

I ordered mine this morning. U.S. market, GMT -5, 8AM.