E6410 Owner's Thread

I'm just waiting to know about the 9 cell battery life, please let us know as soon as possible. Speaking to myself I could buy it even today if it has a good durability. I was thinking on buy this one or an apple, but new Apple models cost too much for something that could have been my first mac and my computer use is not just abou lt web surfing, I'm a software engineering.

 

Yeah, I'm real curious about battery life as well. So far it's seemed like many i3/5/7 machines are getting less battery life than their older Core 2 counterparts, and I'd love to see Dell buck the trend...

 

I will have some results on battery tests with the 9 cell and i7 today.

 

Cool, I await your findings

 

dezoris, thanks for your post, info, and pics.

Dell just replaced my Latitude D630c under warranty for an E6400 that is pretty loaded with Core2Duo P9700 2.8GHz, etc (my D630c was loaded as well) but I'm considering asking them to see if I can get an E6410 instead (can maybe stretch for a lower-end Core i5-520m).

Your original post said that your new E6410 is about on-par performance-wise with an E6400 w/ a P9700? After using the E6410 for a day or so, does that observation still hold true for you? If so I'll probably not bother fighting for an E6410 and just be happy with my E6400 (just stinks that the model is now already 2+yrs old).

Does anyone else who's had experience with Dell Exchanges think I could get an E6410 instead of a E6400?

 

The P9700 is a 25w processor and is a very good performer, you should get better battery life out of that system over something like the higher end i5 or i7 with discrete graphics.

For daily work so far I cannot tell the difference is average use from an E6400 with a P9700 and the E6410 with the i7.

But I realize this is not a technical observation. If you take a look at the benchmarks for the new Mac Book Pro comparing the i7 vs the Core2 the i7 blows it away, but for standard usage its not going to blow you away.

I have not gotten into any major things like zipping, un-raring compression, photoshop or any benchmarks yet.

I work for a company these are not my personal laptops so I have to fit the fooling around with benchmarks and all that crap on the side.

But if you are worried about the difference between the E6400 and E6410 I just don't see major one so far. Unless you are dead set on the new processors and can make use of them its not a must have upgrade especially from the P9700.

 

Exactly, normal daily work for most people does not test the system. Netbook performance is enough for many people.

I agree. It would be necessary to get something from the top of the new range to show a measureable improvement over the P9700. BTW, the E6400 isn't yet 2 years old. I've got one of the first and it shipped just before the end of August 2008. It's taken Dell time to debug the BIOS and their E series system software so it is now a mature platform. Dell have prudently decided to make limited changes in the new model.

John

 

Thanks dezoris, I wasn't demanding any benchmarks or anything, just your day-to-day impressions . I don't do too much heavy lifting on this laptop (Firefox albeit with 50+ tabs), VMWare, Office, SQL, etc. so I suppose the P9700 will be fine. Thanks for your insight.

 

Yea, good call on the 20 BIOS revisions part. Guess I'll settle for the mature platform for relatively trouble-free computing heh.

 

e6410 has a MUCH better integrated graphic and the discrete part is 2times faster on top of being a 40nm part

several tests already showed that the 40nm low end nvidia chips consume considerably less power than the older 9series parts (nvs 160 is basically a 9 series)

if you go for the discrete system the e6410 seems to be a much better option