Dell E6220 User Review

Great writeup! But I'd like to point out that besides the palm rest and screen bezel, the rest of the E6220 is metal - the entire bottom and inside chassis are magnesium alloy, as is the inner skeleton of the screen support.

Bumping the RAM to 8GB bumps the graphics WEI score to 6.4 and 6.4. My E6220 WEI are 7.1, 7.5, 6.4, 6.4, and 7.6.

I've owned many laptops. The E6220 is one of the best, small and light and solidly built, decent battery life, and the IPS screen mod is icing on the cake. I got my hands on an XT3, messing with Windows 8 on it right now. I thought I would keep the XT3 and sell my 6220, but it's too hard to let go of this screen. Plus battery life is terrible on the XT3 - it's "6 cell" battery is a lousy 40Whr, WTH?

 

The internal constuction is amazing, I cannot get any real flex on it.

and, I almost bought an XT3, but after I saw how paltry that 6-cell was, I just decided to get the not much worse 3-cell here.

How is Win8 on a tablet? I personally despise it on a normal PC.

 

The Metro UI is completely pointless without a touchscreen IMO, or a giant (AND responsive) touchpad like on Macbook. Not "feeling" metro so far, took me a bit to figure out how to get the shutdown screen LOL. The XT3 does run it quite nicely, it boots F A S T - from pressing power to get to desktop and go online is ~12 seconds!

If the battery life on the XT3 is at least as good as the 6220 the decision would be much easier.

 

It does boot extremely fast. I have an old P4 desktop I'm running it on. Not only does it run very well on the ancient hardware, but it boots in like 30 seconds compared to the minute thirty of 7.

I kinda wish Dell had made a 12.5" tablet instead of 13.3", then maybe it wouldv'e been thinner.

 

It's saying that this laptop is tested with MIL-STD 810G standard
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/latit/en/latitude-e6220-spec-sheet.pdf

I don't think this is true

 

Hi, Does anyone know if this Laptop will give Sata III speeds ? as I want to buy one
Thanks