E6530 owners thread

@ nubuilder

- You are so so wrong about that! More RAM is NOT the way it goes for speedy VMs - especially VMs need SSD ! They do work as native systems when pc has proper SSD! No RAM upgrade will give you that speed, I truly guarantee it too You. 8GB RAM vs. 16GB gives nothing (if VMs is already run on proper CPU with VTx , VTx-d I/O extensions) , but SSD does changes perspective completely.

I've run VMs with 1GB RAM assigned with SSD vs. 3GB on HDD - and on HDD it was horrible. Of course You'll still need f.eg. 3GB for Oracle VM to run smoothly, but compared this VM snapshot on SSD vs. HDD ... is day/night difference! Especially databases and loading large scripts. If You can choose 8GB RAM + SSD - do so!

 

I don't mean to be rude, but get off the SSD case. I'm perfectly happy with the performance of my HDD. I am not sorry if that doesn't please you and your stats. I realize RAM isn't everything either, but it would be nice to dedicate more than the minimal requirements to a VM if I so choose to, or run than 2 VM's at once.

I didn't join this forum to get hounded about not getting an SSD. I joined it to find help for my new laptop and help anyone else that may have a question that I may be able to answer.

Anyone have any help on the finger print reader or the finger-pointer device with Win8?
I would hope that Dell along with the manufacturers of these devices would get on these issues for growing number of Win8 users.

 

Hi everyone, new to the forum so sorry if I noob it.

Ive just had a lovely new 6530 delivered and am a bit concerned about the screen. I noticed it straight away - a grid / grain that after a little research found was to be called the Screen door effect.

image examples - > https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lcd+screen+door+effect

Now I have a e6510 and also a e6520 to compare against, both are perfect.

Im wondering if this is due to a new manufacturer and is something common to the e6530.... or have I been unlucky.

The effect is pretty bad... especially dark backgrounds.

Cheers for the help.

 

To all using WWAN in mini-PCIE slots, did anyone used Sierra Wireless AirPrime M7710 LTE card in mini-PCIe slot, which was previously populated by Wi-Fi card? I'm asking due to that Sierra Wireless AirPrime M7710 needs three antennas and my WWAN slot has two, but my wi-fi slot (with N6300) has using 3 antennas. Technically it should work, but this is 400$ card in my country, so without anyone confirming I probably will hesitate to buy this.

 

I just bought both 6530 and 6510. The latter has FHD 1920 x 1080p, what a nice surprise (since I didn't know what screen it had, when purchasing through Dell Direct). I'm not sure what 'screen door effect' looks like. I disabled Aero on the 6530, and screen looks clear.

If you mean a kind of fuzzy effect over the screen, I'm not sure that's the computer. Google websites lately show resolution poorly. They opted for thin fonts, medium gray and light blue colors on a glaring white background also with glaring crayon-like colors, kinda like Win8. Am typing now on a Dell Pentium 4 with a 1900x600 Dell monitor, and the screen is fuzzy, too.

Finally, did you adjust for Clear Type? Right click, select Personalize, then Display, then Adjust Clear Type text -- then follow the prompts.

 

Cheers for the reply,

It literally is the display, ie the space around each pixel (from what I understand) that causes the incredibly fine yet very noticeable grid like effect. Its almost like the screen is a very high quality dot matrix print out - rastered look to it. Ive just seen the very first page of this thread someone else seems to have had the same problem.

 

Well, the thing is, people come here for advise, and the best advice you can get is to get an SSD. It is THE biggest upgrade you can do to your computer. It's not about being an up-grade in specs, or bragging rights, it is an upgrade that you will actually feel and notice the difference. It is night and day between using a system with an SSD vs one that doesn't have one. The point is you will get more benefits by spending $100 towards an SSD vs $100 towards more RAM, or a better CPU, or anything like that. That will even be the case if you are running VM's. Swapping to disk is a major major slowdown with a regular HDD< so much that you want to have enough ram such that you never swap to disk, however with an SSD the performance impact is significantly smaller. If the options were 8GB RAM + SSD vs 16GB RAM + HDD I would take the SSD setup anyday, and if I really really needed to I could upgrade the ram later, it's cheap and easy, however the SSD system will be a better machine for everyday tasks.

 

Did you ever try this? Has anyone else tried to replace the screen with a nicer B+RGLED? If so, what was your experience and which model did you use?

 

is the 1080p screen a direct drop in?

 

Follow up on my screen issues - Dell are swapping it for another, I just got a bad one.