E6520 Owner's Thread

I have tested the NEC chipset based BC398 and it works well with the E6230/6240/6250 systems.

The chipset used in the most important aspect to look for; not the company name since they all come from Asia anyway.

Scott-

 

Does anyone have an E6520 with the HD+ (1600x900) LED display?

I'm considering an E6520 from the Dell Outlet and the FHD (1920x1080) is hard to come by (especially in "NEW" rather than "Certified Refurbished" condition). But there are some NEW ones with the 1600x900 display and I'd love any feedback you guys can share!

Thanks!

 

Hello,
Mine is 1600*900 version.
Its Samsung panel and angels are acceptable but still if I look closely, it is very much pixalated.
My 5-6 yrs old vaio fz looks better than this Samsung panel.
This is my frank observation.
Avoid Samsung panel and look for auo panels.

 

I have the SEC544b 1600x900 and except for the one stuck pixel in the far lower right of my screen, I find this to be a good resolution for my needs. I would *never* go lower than that for a 15" screen, and I find going higher (for me, just me) makes everything so small I wind up having to tweak windows size settings (e.g. font/pixel sizes) to make everything big enough for me to comfortably work with...

 

I made a chart that shows how many days have elapsed since the last E6520 BIOS update. We've gone 25 days longer than the 2nd longest period, so hopefully Dell will release a new one really soon. I'm still crossing my fingers for Mini-PCIe SATA SSD support.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtFlDiuBMDsDdGd3T3BrOEUzblp3VUxtcWxLSnVGWnc

 

Heh, thanks for the chart. I honestly just feel that if no one at Dell has specifically stated it will get this support that we are going to be left behind. It seems like such a waste on their part to not support this, but I guess the pessimist in me is doubtful.

I've heard...somewhere... that the E6520's "M" sister actually does support this? Is this true? I suppose that might provide some hope.....if they've already got it coded...

 

Not sure which ones we have at work, but the 900p panels on our E6520s look great. Colours and viewing angles are seem as good as my 1080p.

 

The M4600 - yes it definitely supports it. If you go to Dell's website and customize an M4600, one of primary hard drive selections is an mSATA SSD.

 

Thanks Scott, I will try to check the chipset..

 

Hi I've been looking at the e6520 and the m4600 wondering how the build quality is? Also how are the speakers, a lot of business -grade notebooks seem to have really bad speakers. Thanks!