E6410 Owner's Thread

I started the battery test at 9:40AM

Installed the following During this time:

• Adobe Flash Player 10 for Firefox and IE8
• Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows, IE8 and Firefox
• DoPDF Creator
• Dell Control Point Software (Volume, Screen Brightness and Power Management GUI)
• Dell Touch Pad Software (Touch Pad Disabled on USB Mouse Detection)
• Right Click Image Resizer Power Tool for Windows7
• Java Runtime
• Office 2007 Profession SP2 with Updates (4/14/2010)
• Microsoft Security Essentials A/V
• Microsoft Silverlight
• Firefox 3.6.3
• Spark IM
• VLC
• WinRAR 3.90
• Windows XP Mode (Preconfigured Image)
• Microsoft Virtual PC
• Terminal Emulation
• Hosts of other tweaks and image building configurations
• 11 Reboots

The machine also:

• Sat Idle for 1 hour
• Was in standby for 35 minutes
• Played music with windows media player looping for 1 hour
• 640x480 video .5 hours

Battery test End time 3:27PM @ 7% life

Total Runtime: 5 hours 47 minutes.

 

ok this puts a considerablle load onto the system; especially the installs and restarts take a lot of power as the system never gets to idle the cores during the installs

i assume that wlan was on during the installation and display brightness on maximum?

this puts the e6410 right on the same position as the old E6400 which is great

 

Display was 90% brightness and WLAN was on the entire time.

 

perfect, i was so close to buy the refreshed 13" macbook pro, due to the battery life. So we could say that on word process programs (office, programming, etc...) and brightness on 2/3, it would easily stands for 8 hours.

One more question what about the temperature, how do you feel it on you laps and on the palm rest. Please don't forget to tell me how warm is the air the come from the cooler on normal conditions.

Thanks a lot

 

That's very good.

Another test would be light usage with a low (25%?) brightness representing trying to get all day battery.

Reducing the display brightness will save a couple of Watts but it will be useful to know if the rest of the hardware also throttles back on power consumption.

John

 

Is this with the 9-Cell battery? I wonder how the 6-Cell battery compares to the 9-Cell. I really don't like the look of the 9-Cell sticking out the back.

 

I'm sure it is. See the first post in this thread.

The 6 cell has 2/3rd of the capacity of the 9 cell so it should give about 2/3rd of the run time.

John

 

Did the e6410 go on a crazy sale today? Can some of you compare what you paid for yours to what it would cost today?

Thanks!

 

I see the discounts today. I think I'm gonna go on chat tomm and see if I can get the price a bit lower.

 

Dezoris,
Thanks for the helpful info so far. There goes my plan to swap palmrests to get the E6410's new multitouch trackpad.
Could you comment on the trackpad - especially the gestures? It would be really helpful if you could list what gestures they are and give an impression - are they good, usable, or just bad?
Thanks!