New Latitude 5470

Typically, they launch one mid-week in the US outlet.

Could someone tell me if the E5470 palm rest is rubberized or hard plastic/whatever material?The E5450 has a hard plastic while the E7450/E7470 have the rubbery palmrests.

EDIT: From the review here, it seems so: http://www.computershopper.com/laptops/reviews/dell-latitude-14-5000-e5470

That really sucks.

The rubberized palmrests catch dust and squeak when you slide your sweaty palms. (There's a joke in there somewhere)

 

Thanks, but no thanks.
It is slow EVEN if "optimally configured" (sounds like lame excuse btw)
lenovo laptops work fine; even my old dell d600 starts immediately. So, no matter of configurations you've set e5470 bios is slow.

 

I haven't followed the discussion regarding your issue, but just out of curiosity, are you on an SSD or a HDD?

 

Follow Dell Outlet on twitter. They are always posting coupons.

https://twitter.com/DellOutlet

 

I don't have one, so I don't care.

But John (a respected mod here), and paper_wastage both indicated their bios posts much faster than yours, suggesting your configuration is the problem. Plus possibly your attitude.


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You can say that again. lol

 

That escalated quickly..


Meanwhile, could someone with the Quad cores, share how their battery life tends to be?

Thank you.

 

1. My E5570 is currently taking around 10 seconds from entering password at BIOS level to wanting password in Windows. Computers with very fast booting tend to have a very narrow range of hardware options, many of which are coded into the BIOS so there's no need to interrogate the devices. An example is Samsung notebooks with only have one display resolution which is coded into the BIOS (and means a BIOS hack for anyone wanting to upgrade the screen).

2. My experience with my E5570 with 6440HQ is that the power drain under light usage is not significantly worse than with a dual core CPU. A lot of the CPU gets shut down when not needed. I've also set the maximum power state on battery to 99% which disables turbo mode.

John

 

Anyone here have an idea on fixing the touchpad behavior were two finger scrolling doesn't work after a button press until after you lift your finger? Also happens when you type something and immediately try to scroll with two fingers.

I have thread for this here, but I figured it would get more attention here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/dell-touchpad-issue-two-finger-scrolling.792812/

 

idle draw is about 5W lowest brightness (62Whr battery, so this suggests 10hours if doing something static like reading PDFs)

real world for me, about 4-6 hours (10-20W draw, doing mixture of tasks like browsing, coding, multitasking, maybe 30-60% brightness)

can obviously stretch it more by various ways (force powersave, disable turbo, brightness etc). don't care because I carry around a Dell Power Companion (18A, 66W(?)), probably tops off battery capacity by 70%, about 1 extra pound of weight (don't need to carry power adapter around)

6820hq, 2x16GB, 2.5" ssd and wwan m.2, 1080p matte

 

John, paper_wastage, what bios version do you have?
I disabled all the not necessary devices except sata drives and m.2 slot. FastBoot set to minimal. Disabled all the network wake on line options. I have no password for bios or any other security features.
I have almost the same configuration as paper_wastage (6820hq, 2x16GB, 2.5" HDD and wwan m.2) I boot from wwan drive.
Also, I just flashed 1.5.0 bios. It didn't help. I still takes ~30 seconds to see password from the system
Not sure what else could I tweak.

 

Is paper_wastage booting from the WWAN or the 2.5" SSD?