Latitude E6500 Questions

Just chiming in, my E5500 with P8700/4GB/64GB SSD/GMA4500MHD runs 1080p content absolutely no trouble.

IMO I'd at least look into screen replacement before selling it. The E5500's display sucks majorly too, I have a WXGA+ glossy panel coming in a few days for an upgrade. Should be interesting to see if it functions properly.

Also, the E6400 is just the 14" version of the E6500. Why would it offer more power?

 

I never said it would offer more power.

I pulled out the E6500 today and it kind of felt like coming home. But I was reading today about the M4400. It's main feature that I would care about is the Nvidia GPU.

I have played with M4500's, E6520's, D830's, D630's and other that I have deployed for clients. They are all OK (I really like the D630). I've even used most of them as my primary machine while trying to find the laptop that fits me best. The E6500 really, really fits me nicely. The only downside is my model has an Intel GPU which is great for keeping the system cool, but not so great for light gaming. I'd really love an i5/Nvidia E6500 but since that doesn't exist, the closest I can come is to get an E6500 with an Nvidia GPU or an M4400. I'd like to stay on 16:10 for as long as possible.

 

Hey quick question:

I received an Inspiron 6400. I could care less about the machine, but it has a relly nice 1600x1050 LCD in it. Any chance this screen would work in my E6500?

 

So I received another E6500 from the same client. This one had a slightly slower CPU, less RAM and only a 160GB HD. What it did have was a great condition 9-cell battery and a super bright LCD.

The LCD in my 1st E6500 was a Samsung panel. This one is an LG panel. The part # from device manager is: MONITOR\LGD016D

So to swap panels all I had to do was:

1. Remove the bezel
2. Disconnect the inverter cable
3. Remove the 4 screws holding the LCD in place
4. Place the LCD face down on the keyboard
5. Press the 2 clips on the side and remove the LVDS cable
6. Set the LCD to the side
7. Remove the 2 screws holding the inverter in place
8. Remove the inverter
9. Repeat these same steps on the other machine
10. Install the LG panel in my machine by reversing steps 8-1.

End result: A very bright screen running on my E6500 and another fully functional E6500 to sell off. So here's my specs to date:

Core2Duo P8600 2.4GHz CPU
4GB DDR2 800MHz RAM
500GB 7200 RPM HD
Intel GPU
DVD-Burner
Wifi, BT, EVDO Modem

I also installed Windows 8.1 Enterprise preview to see how the OS would run on machine of this age. And I have to say it feels even faster than Windows 7 which was already pretty spunky on this machine. So now I have a bit more testing to do. IF things go how I think they will then I might just go ahead with my original plan (if you read my other posts in other threads) about grabbing an M440. The reasoning would be for the 16:10 LCD and with a Core2Quad under the hood, 8GB of RAM and an SSD it should make for a rather responsive machine to handle my light gaming (mainly flash games) and office work. If so then awesome. If not, I guess i'll stick with the E6520 and it's i7. Although I cannot stand the display on that machine.

In regards to the LCD swap: I had thought all E6500's had dim displays. I was very wrong. This unit is brighter than the LCD in my M4500 and E6520 which both have pretty bright displays to begin with.

 

Well, after playing around on a Core2Quad system for a while it has come to my attention that no, an M440 won't satisfy my needs. I'll keep the E6500 I have and sell the others. Keeping it mainly to play older stuff in WinXP.

So now to find a replacement for my D630 which is a wonderful system, just a little slow. I was looking at the E6410. So why post this here? Because it was related to my E6500 and I wanted to keep it in the same area. Also just to throw my thoughts out there for others to read if this thread ever comes up in a google search or something.

 

I just bought myself an E6500 too with the Core2Duo T9600 2.80Ghz, 4GB RAM, WXGA screen and 160GB HDD.

The question is, have any of you been able to at least browse the webs and watch YouTube 720p smoothly? Even a low quality video is hard to be watched on my system. Is it because of the Windows I installed? It came with Windows Vista Business but I formatted the whole disk and installed Windows 7 instead. Can it not handle the Windows 7 as the first-gen i3 could handle it without any problems?

Or did I messed up somewhere and made the system slow? Should I stay away from post-Vista OSes to have a better performance after all?

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I bought my mom a refurbished/off-lease E6400 last year and it handles most streaming video without a flinch! It has the 2.4GHz P8600 C2D, Intel graphics, WXGA+ (1440x900) LED and 4GB of RAM. I upgraded the HDD to a 128GB SSD and performed a clean-install of Windows 7 out of the box.

So the hardware is capable of running Windows 7 and HD video playback. Are you certain that all drivers are totally up-to-date?

 

Yes, the drivers are up-to-date and I am very certain of it. All of them are downloaded from Dell's support website.

It's weird, because someone with an even weaker T7700 (IIRC) said that he can watch HD videos wthout any problems. My CPU gets 100% all the time and it might be throttled. How do I unthrottle it or even check if it's being throttled? If it's not the CPU, it might be my HDD, but who knows. I'll try to look for all possibilities.

 

You might have the "throttling issue". Take a look at the ThrottleStop thread in hardware.

 

I'm using ThrottleStop right now but I'm not sure what I should do. I've read the whole guide but I don't understand which one should I look at to stop the throttling. More importantly, how do I verify that I do have the throttling issue?

Also, I do a little light gaming and I'm wondering if anybody have been able to play League of Legends fine on the E6400 or the E6500? I tried playing it yesterday but it's not playable at all at ~10FPS.