Latitude E6510 Owner's Lounge

I ordered my E6510 with a 500GB 7200 RPM drive. Thinking about getting an SSD. My question is: Can I do a "bare metal" copy (using Clonezilla) of the HD to an SSD or do I have do a clean install on the SSD?

Thanks.

 

But the i7-720QM is hands down more powerful correct? We don't carea bout battery usage that much.... Will mostly be desktop replacement for design/media/lots of multi tasking.

Also you got the FHD screen correct?

 

Hi cybamerc, could you please give some more detail about the audio over displayport, what cable are you using and what device are you connecting your laptop to?


Thanks!

 

I'm cloning HDDs to SSDs without problems. Given the potential for SSD performance to degrade with time, periodic cloning of an image from a HDD is one strategy to recover performance.

John

 

I did a test yesterday on my E6510 with the 9 cell. I got about 5 hours out of it, doing light web surfing and some remote desktopping with very little hard drive activity and WiFi turned on and backlit keyboard on. I had the screen at about 80% brightness. If you believe the battery meter, setting the screen at the default 50% brightness on battery should yield about 7 hours. I have the i5-540M with Full HD screen, Intel graphics.

I am noticing the problem with the Windows 7 battery meter that many others (not just Dell users) are complaining about... says 100% charged when plugged in, but as soon as the power is removed from the back the meter jumps down to 90% - 94%. It seems to be reasonably accurate and show a linear decline after that until you get down to about 20%, then it drops off a cliff to 7% and pops up the battery warning.

 

How much battery life you have when you:
1- Set screen brightness to minimum
2- Disable ambient light sensor
3- Disable backlit keyboard
4- wireless Turn ON
5- Dell Extended battery life turned ON (with Aero enable (but no transparency) if you have the Nvidia solution, else Aero Basic for Intel). Dell Extended battery set to disable optical drive, firewire, and all other device you can disable (except wireless card).
6- System is idle and battery at 100%

This is normal, it's to protect the battery so that it last longer.

Thanks.

 

Had first problem with sleep mode today (first time the laptop has gone into sleep while on battery)... windows 7 logon screen asks for password --or-- "connect fingerprint sensor" ... odd, because that means Win 7 has "lost" the fingerprint sensor. I think I typed in the password, nothing happens. I tried clicking the link to connect the fingerprint sensor, the password box clears and there's a blank Win 7 screen just sitting there. Had to hard power-off the computer and reboot to get back to normal.

I've *never* had sleep mode work correctly in *any* version of Windows on *any* laptop, *ever*. Why is this so hard?

/end rant

 

Questions about Displayport: is it worth switching from a VGA connection for my 1680x1050 monitor for a Displayport-to-DVI connection? The other question is, assuming the Displayport-to-DVI is better, do I need a separate converter or can I use a simple Displayport-to-DVI cable?

 

Because you get these useless finger print reader and what not that comes complete with badly designed drivers.

Do you encrypt files on your system? If not, then having your finger print reader / contact less card reader / etc... is totally useless. I can take your HDD plug it onto another system and get full access to your files.

Since Vista the sleep system is fixed, and since Win7 you have an integrated sensor support system. Which no device yet uses as they need to support Vista/XP, and not willing to make a separate driver for Win7... I mean why would you, when you have a deal with a huge company like Dell, where you get to sell several millions of them... heck don't even do any driver update.. your sales are assured under contract! Maximize profits instead of quality. If you want good finger print readers, and such security systems, then it's best to get the ones in stores, as there you have competition, and people expect it to work properly else return the product. So it is important that everything works fine - and of course read reviews.

Now you understand why despite being offered for free, I refuse to have any finger print reader on my laptop (E6400), and my contact less card reader driver are not installed and the device disabled. My laptop works like a charm

 

VGA is designed for analogue devices, like some projectors, and CRT monitors.
LCD's and good projectors are digital, hence it's best to use a digital cabling, as with digital you don't have an interference problem, and quality doesn't degrade.. it works or does not. Simple as that.

Also, VGA provide latency issue onto the visuals, as the signal is converted from digital to analogue by the graphic card, and then the monitor picks up this analogue signal and converts it back to digital to be used. (plus you have all the interference that came in from the VGA cable).