E6440 Owners Thread

hi z31,

Do you know if the e6440 optical bay height is 9.5mm? Therefore the Dell e6430 is probably the 12.7mm size?

just want to confirm this. thanks!

 

hello guys, again, i found out the answer. the e6440 is slim size univeral caddy at 9.5mm.

 

hi john,

just read your post here. Thanks for this lots of good information. I am trying to see if there is a lightweight plastic caddy that can use a lightweight msata drive. This could possibly drop the weight of the laptop 0.5 lbs and lower power consumption of the msata.

So far, I can't find a lightweight msata or m.2 9.5mm caddy.

 

You would need to use an mSATA to 2.5" adapter in the optical drive caddy. The lightest mSATA adapter that I have come across is the "interposer" used in the E7440 and E7450" to mount an mSATA drive in the 2.5" bay (see my E7440 review). It's a simple plastic frame but also needs the appropriate cable. However, unless you can find someone selling these as unwanted parts then the cost will be unattractive.

John

 

Thanks again John!

Do you mean this e7440 msata bracket and adapter?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitu...624922?hash=item41ad22fa5a:g:CxIAAOSw8vZXNkQX

Will this fit in a standard 100mm x 70mm size 2.5" SSD sata opening in a 2nd SSD caddy?

Like this tray / ejector for the e6440:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/361526181918?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

Those look as if they should work together. The Dell E7440 adapter enables the mSATA drive to be put into a 2.5" bay. The HDD bay in the E7440 is nominally 7mm high but that doesn't matter as the connector is in the same place.

John

 

thanks again John!

 

just an update guys, removing the HDD (adding 2 mSata SSDs) and DVD bay shaved about 0.6 lbs from the e6440 with the 65wh battery. Weight drops to 4 lbs. not bad for a full enterprise everything upgradeable laptop.

With the 65wh battery, im getting around 5.5 to 6 hrs of normal usage.

John is right about 8-12 watts / hr usage rate even thought it has a high power M haswell process. It all depends on what type of workload you are doing.

Here is the cool thing, when i swap out the 65wh batter with the 97wh big battery, im getting 11 hrs battery life and total weight of about 4.4 lbs. Not bad at all for all the horsepower, battery life and sturdy build quality of a no-compromise laptop.

I had the new e7470 for just 1 week before i decided to sell it. I didnt even use it because of how amazing the e6440 is.

 

Hi guys, another update, adding 97wh slice battery to the 97wh onboard battery gets me to 20 hrs of battery life however 5.5 lbs. So, its starting to get pretty heavy

 

VPro question:

My current i5-4310M has an Intel VPro sticker, and is equipped, in the firmware, with the relevant VPro features (ie: Intel AMT, etc.). It has the nice 1080p screen.

I'm thinking of getting another E6440 (or E6540), with the i7 quad core processor, and swapping the CPU's, so that I have a very powerful 1080p/i7/SSD laptop. And a less powerful i5/HD+ laptop. A straight screen swap unfortunately isn't possible because the 1080p uses eDP and the HD+ uses LVDS.

Are the VPro features tied to the chip itself? The i7's aren't "VPro capable" (according to the Intel ARK's). So I'd lose that feature (not that such matters to me). But would the non-VPro former i7 motherboard suddenly develop "VPro" capabilities if I slapped a VPro chip onto it?

 

Why would an i5 have a feature an i7 lacks? Pretty sure i7's can have vPro.


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