E6420 Owner's Thread

1)
20 days ago I bought a refurbished (scrach and dent ) E6420 with quadcore i7, 250gb 7200rpm ,4gb ram ,touchscreen ,card reader and etc for 550$ about 400 euros!!!The laptop is great!

In Greece it is like 1500 euros at least.

The laptop has only the popping edge problem but I don't care

2) I have seen batteries on ebay that claim to be genuine:

US seller

NEW GENUINE DELL E6420 E6520 9 Cell Battery 97Wh Extended Life Part No. M5Y0X | eBay

Chinese seller

Genuine 9-Cell Battery Dell Latitude E5520 E5420 E6220 E6420 M5Y0X T54FJ X57F1 | eBay

Has anyone tried these batteries?Can they be genuine?

 

The 2nd one, part# NHXVW is the same as i have in my 5420

 

None of those is the 3-cell modular bay battery

 

Jkleis

Did you buy it of eBay?

Stef
Go at dell site you will find what you want

 

Just got e6420 from us outlet, around AUD530 delivered - it's a bargain

Samsung LCD panel (SEC Model 544b, MJ154 - 140KT) is terrible, really terrible :-(

Just wondering if someone knows the difference between:
LP140WD1-TLA1
LP140WD1-TLD1
LP140WD1-TLM1

 

I'm waiting for a E6420 and I've been reading a lot in this thread. I have a question about the 1600x900 screen (I'm getting that one). Are they ALL terrible, or is it one of these damn lottery things (not sure which is worst)?

Also, I have an E6410 HDD caddy. Just something random off eBay. I'm really hoping I can use (at least in the beginning) it even if it'll look weird. Will I be able to?

 

AFAIK (based on internetz searching and this thread)
LP140WD1-TLA1 - GLOSSY
LP140WD1-TLD1 - MATTE
I've never seen TLM1.

 

I have the high rez screen. IMO it's worth every penny and mine at least is pretty high quality. I haven't noticed anything bad about it.

As far as the HDD caddy goes, in theory, it should work. In practice though, I don't know if the bezel is the same size or not. I don't think it'll work though.

 

Yeah I wouldn't want the low-res screen for anything, I've just seen people here being pretty disappointed with the quality of the high-res screen to be sure!

 

Dell is using different LCD panels for their HD screens. Mine has Samsung LTN140KT (part number - KWTPY Module,Liquid Crystal Display,14.0HDF+,Light Emitting Diode,Low Voltage Differential Signaling,AG,A). Others got LG LP140WD1TLM1 (part number - GJ494 Liquid Crystal Display, 14.0HDF+, Light Emitting Diode, Low Voltage Differential Signaling, AG, Z, Lg Philips Lcd)

And quality of these screens is quite different.

For example, black color on my Samsung is terrible, I can't watch terminal window opened full screen, it just hurts my eyes.