E6520 Owner's Thread

Thanks for that. Sounds logical, its just that I am worried the 1600x900 lcd panel may be an inferior quality to the FHD - unfortunately the Notebookcheck.net review only covered the awfull 768p and what they reckon is an excellent FHD. The fact the Dell config site states both HD+ & FHD are Premium Panel Guarantee, is encouraging.
Can you let us know the make/part no of your lcd ? - also any opinions on it ?
It is found under:
Control Panel > Hardware > Device Manager > PnP Monitor > Detail tab > Select Hardware ID

 

Note that the 'Help me Choose' links on the Dell.com system customization pages offer some specs to compare the display options. I suspect you will find that the 1600x900 and above are viable options.

GK

 

SEC544B. There's a thread mentioning it on these forums, here. I've only had my E6520 for two weeks, but so far, I've been relatively happy with it. I have to mention, though that I'm not a photoshop user or someone who is extremely picky, so the FHD screen may very well be a much better one for someone who is visual/graphics-oriented...

 

I have a question about hardware virtualization on this model, could someone please check in bios if it is possible to enable it?

Thanks
Tech69

 

Yes, it is possible

 

Another random but important piece of information: Although the E6520 is part of the Latitude E-Series line, modular devices (e.g. CD-Rom, 2nd hard drive module, etc.) are not interchangeable between the E6520 and other E-Series machines (E6510, E6500, E6410, E6400, etc.) Previous Latitudes (D-Series, C-Series) had devices that were compatible with all other models within its own line. Dell for some reason decided to change that with this model. Ugh.

 

Huh..didn't know that, guess it's good this is my first Latitude....
Maybe the new design is "better" or, "more efficient" as 7of9 would say... heh...

 

I got a 3rd party module bay for latitude E6520. It's about 10 dollar in China.
And I moved the primary hdd to the bay. The machine can boot from bay without the existence of primary hdd. Quite cool!

The only question is whether the free fall sensor can protect the hard drive in module bay.

 

OK, thank you very much for looking. I have just returned a computer that had no bios option for it and hw-vt was set to off. So this time I will try to do my homework better...I will use this Dell for lab with 64 bit virtual machines so it is an important feature for me. I will also run Ubuntu 11.04 64bit on it as host and it looks to be OK for other users in this thread.

If I ask really nice could someone please run this tool from Microsoft with vt-x enabled in bios, please.

Download details: Microsoft® Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool

Tech69

 

See attachment on E6520. Although why not run Virtualbox? Much better VM than VirtualPC...