Dell Latitude E6410 14.1" with WXGA+ (1440x900) resolution

I'm trying to find this specific laptop but am getting mixed results (the best I can find are listings that state the laptop has both WXGA 1280x800 and WXGA+ so I don't know what I'm actually getting).

Do you know if I buy one with WXGA, can I upgrade it to WXGA+? Do both have different video cards/processors?

Also, is the processor upgradeable from i5 to i7? Are the different versions too different to upgrade from the lower-spec version to the higher-spec version? I'm having even a hard time figuring out from Dell's info which is which (though it seems the AGT is the WXGA version, though sellers seem to think resolution is not a big deal).

 

Its a panel swap. Yes it can be done. But why not pony up a few extra bucks and get the laptop you want in the first place?

Yes you can upgrade the CPU. But again, why?

At this point, the laptops that are on eBay, etc., have very little value, and the sellers generally aren't going to go through a lot of effort to describe them. I'd highly suggest that you step up to the E6430 if you want to be looking at machines for which the seller is going to at least bother to give you a service tag. There's even some decent E6440 deals to be had these days.

 

Thanks. I wasn't sure how to make this clear in my original post, but I've already looked at multiple listed E6410s on various sites and they'd either not specify the resolution, showed contradictory resolutions, or showed other contradictory information (like CPU and RAM) in the exact same listing (Amazon and eBay have two locations for that info and you'd be surprised how often they contradict) that made me question the stated resolution's accuracy. So I could pony up the bucks yet get a panel that doesn't support WXGA+, and my question was about whether I could just fix that with a software or hardware solution or I had to buy the correct laptop version (Dell doesn't make any of this clear).

Because I want to get just an i5 now but I may want an i7 later without having to buy the "right" laptop now or later; I don't find that unusual. Again, many listings were contradictory or not clear on what you're actually getting or whether you can upgrade.

Most listings I looked at had a lot of information, but a lot of it is pre-selected by the platform (eBay, Amazon) which the seller can just pick and choose (erroneously) or select by model number (and pick the first or second result in a search) and then also let you type/select your own info (hence the contradictory info in multiple places), and when I see contradictory or missing info, I question the seller but I also came here because I was getting contradictory answers or answers that implied the seller or other people didn't understand the question or the laptop very much.

All I really needed to know was whether I could up the resolution to WXGA+, or swap out the panel, and upgrade the CPU. Thanks.

 

Okay, sorry if I sounded condescending. I didn't mean to be.

There's two panels available for the E6410, the 1366x766, and the 1600x900. They are electrically identical, so its a straight panel swap. It is *not* like, say the E6440, where some laptops use the older LVDS standard, while the later production laptops use eDP.

If you're looking for a laptop on a site like eBay, you really should get the Dell tag, and go into the support.dell.com website, look up that tag, and see what hardware is associated with the laptop. The people who put 100 laptops on eBay (ie: surplus dealers) don't generally have a lot of time to tick all those boxes, but they might give you a service tag. Then again, on a laptop as old as the E6410, they often won't bother. On Amazon, you're dealing with surplus dealers, and I've *never* seen them actually give out Dell service ID tags.

AFAIK, there's only one revision of the E6410 motherboard (and separate revisions for the various embedded graphics options), so as long as your flash is up to date, you can use all supported processors.

 

So which panel supports 1440x900? The 1366x766 panel or the 1600x900 panel? Do they have a name?

 

Sorry but I gotta correct these:

Having fixed an E6410 myself, I'm sure E6410 (and the cheaper E5410) uses 16:10 panels, so it's either 1280 x 800 or 1440 x 900. It's E5510 and E6510 which use 16:9 panels.

To elaborate this, for any laptops using 1st gen Core i processors:

• If the laptop only has Intel HD Graphics, they can only use dual core chips at max (i7-640M being the highest)
• If the laptop has Nvidia or ATi graphics chip, they can use any Nehalem / Westmere mobile CPUs, quad core included

The reason is that the 1st gen quad core mobile i7 didn't have space for integrated graphics unit so Intel omitted that on quad core chips, which can be easily seen by lack of separate heat spreaders (a specialty of Westmere mobile CPUs) on quad core i7.

 

Look for LP141WP2 or LTN141BT10, at least these are what I could find that support 1440 x 900.
Or else look for the screens for Lenovo ThinkPad T410, they also had 1440 x 900 panels available.