E6410 Owner's Thread

I have three E6410s. Two clean installs went well and fixed the sleep and hibernation issue, the third clean install continues to hang on "Completing Installation" no matter what. Grr!

 

Screen issue - E6410 has a very narrow viewing angle(that too for a small display), compared to my other professional and consumer laptops. Adjusting gamma etc does help a bit, but I expected a decent quality from a professional grade notebook.

Screen format - Earlier notebooks had great screen format and by going wider we end up spending more time scrolling the screen. I am a big fan of vista gadget technology, but they are going to be on the desktop. Gadgets provide a gret deal of enterprise information to the knowledge workers the moment the log in to the screen. At the same time I dont want other applications taking up the real estate while working on a document/powerpoint or the web. BTW vista snap isnt something new, there was something similar called window tiling in windows 3.0

As more and more tablet PC's and IPad style devices(as you can use it either in widescreen or in a narrow format by flipping) come into existance we will get more data on the useful format that users want and accordingly the screen format will change in the near future.

 

My view angle is, in my opinion fine on my E6400. I suggest to call Dell tech support and request a different monitor panel. I'll be surprised if they used a different set of monitors for the E6410.

For the E6400 the LG panel is the best one can get.

 

Wrong.

The WXGA display on the E6400 was CCFL whereas the WXGA display on the E6410 is LED backlit.

 

The E6410 is still 16:10, just like the E6400. If you're talking about the very outdated 4:3 aspect ratio, you have look back before 2007. I believe the Lenovo Thinkpad T60 was one of the very last notebooks to ever offer the 4:3 aspect ratio.

 

Yes, the E6400 WXGA display was CCFL at first, but it later became LED. You can check the outlet to see for yourself, as they have plenty of WXGA LED models.

It is possible Dell changed the screen from the E6400 to the E6410 to reduce cost. The WXGA screen on my E6410 is terrible as well.

 

Or the number of potential sources for 16:10 panels has reduced.

John

 

Ok, so my E6410 arrived today. I've just booted it up and am in the process of doing a clean install. Build quality is excellent, screen is very good. It's actually heavier than my M1530 I think, and it's not *that* much smaller. Definitely a nice machine so far.

However, I need a Linux partition on it. I have ISOs for Ubuntu and Mint readily available here (that I've downloaded) and obviously anything else I can just download. I have the nVidia graphics. What's works best? I'm very distro neutral, so as long as it works I don't care, but I have a slight tendency to prefer Debian-based distros since that's what I'm most familiar with.

 

Personally, I like Gentoo but I find Ubuntu is much friendlier to use. So, I haven't use Gentoo much anymore. There should be drivers for both AMD and nVidia on Ubuntu side if you allow close source repository. And there are much more Ubuntu users base, so looking for a solution on the ubuntu forum should be much easier if you happen to come across a problem.

 

I might try that - the limiting factor I was going for was if the hardware is easy to get working or works straight "out of the box".

Oh, I keep forgetting these things are Live CDs nowadays, so I can just pop it in and see if it works.