E6410 Owner's Thread

I'm in California USA. I ordered mine Apr 16, ETA: May 7. It arrived yesterday (May 4). Laptop was shipped Apr 28, and took 5-6 days because I chose free ground shipping.

 

I think there was another brand as well on the E6400. CMO?

It's quite likely that the number of manufacturers of this display size is reducing.

John

 

my original Dell ETA was May 26th ; it was shipped by dell on may 3rd from shanghai; arrived yesterday in Frankfurt and new UPS ETA is may 6th so it's 20 days early

 

Did you orderd any accessories? Is it a single parcel?

 

I've ordered it on April 13th (from Austria). It was delivered on April 30th, although Dell gave me May 20th as a date. Actually, it would have been earlier, if it weren't for the UPS delay due to the recent flight cancellations in Europe.
So don't panic when you receive a date far far away, I guess they just want to surprise their customers...

 

there should be no issues as long as your HDD is standard-height and the pcie slots in the 6410 are full height

you might want to consider buying a intel 6300 card as these are supposed to be the best wireless N cards

the Atheros should be able to fit into the WWAN slot (UMTS/HSDPA slot) and the antennas should be long enough

 

But note that the wires for the WLAN antennae go to the half height slot. The WWAN antennae are most likely designed to work best at their own frequency and may not work very well as WLAN antennae.

John

 

I read this and the E6400 owner's thread and couldnt find any complaints about the integrated Intel HD. So im assuming its perfectly fine for anything but Gaming and CAD. Or do you experience any stuttering while browsing/office/movie watching etc?

My brother keeps telling me that i need a dedicated GPU for Windows Aero. Maybe someone has some first hand experience here with integrated Intel GPUs so i can finally order my E6410.

 

The Intel GPU in my E6400 meets all my graphics needs (no gaming) without difficulty and the HD graphics in the E6410 is about twice as fast.

It may be sitting at #161 in notebookcheck's benchmark list but that is still above many notebook dedicated GPUs of about 3 years ago (eg the 8400M GS).

John

 

The Intel HD GPU has many issues.
- For one, the GPU is with the northbridge which causes big throttling problem as soon as you do anything that is a bit 3D. I said it before Intel release their GPU and I said it again, it's the worst thing that Intel could have done is to put the a GPU with the northbridge. Now, Intel is moving their GPU to the CPU. As CPU's have a bigger heatsink, better thermal paste/pad used, the problem is potentially solved.

- Intel's still follows a compatibility list.. meaning if your software that requires the GPU is not known by Intel, there are chances that it will crash or have a very poor performance. Intel is not serious with their GPU development.

- Moreover, based on Vista release, Intel is extremely slow at releasing drivers. For Vista, Intel took all it's time despite having Vista out the door for months. While Nvidia and Ati was ready even during Vista's public Beta (granted not perfect drivers, but at least it was something, considering that Vista kernel is almost completely different from XP). Intel users where out of luck, for quiet some time. Moreover, Intel were pushing "Vista-ready" GPU's/and drivers, that could not even do Aero (only Aero Basic... ie: XP theme system).. that is not what I call "Vista-ready".

- The Intel 4500MHD GPU is equivalent to a Geforce Go 7400... this is very slow graphic card from Nvidia, back in the days. The "new" Intel GPU for the Core i series, is really the 4500MHD, which was moved from the northbridge, to the CPU, allowing faster communication between your system RAM (because it doesn't have it's own RAM), and CPU (because it's GPU is extremely slow it need the CPU for help), in result it's much faster. So, in result, your GPU is faster for the wrong reasons.

Basically, if you do anything above: web surfing and/or using Office and/or playing videos/HD video/DVD's, and/or using any standard applications which doesn't need the GPU at all. Then go with the Intel option. If you want to do anything above that, go with a dedicated GPU.