E6410 Owner's Thread

Thanks John and sdc. I have bought one, described as new, from an eBay seller at a good price.

 

I'm not sure if this has been answered, but can I add a 128gb SSD to my e6410 which currently has a 250gb hard disk? If so, how can I do this? Are there instructions somewhere? Do I need an adapter of some kind?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks guys

 

You can use an adaptor to install a 2nd 2.5" drive into the media bay. See the first thread in this forum.

Most people use the SSD as a boot drive so that the operating system and programs load faster.

John

 

Thanks for the link. However I am looking to replace my current HD with an SSD using the existing pull out hard drive bay. Is there any way to do this?

 

Either clone your existing HDD onto the SSD (but not all cloning programs will handle large -> small) or do a clean install onto the SSD. Swapping out the existing HDD only takes a couple of minutes. Then you can put the old HDD into the media bay caddy.

John

 

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I get a compatibility alert when I try to configure an E6410 with a the webcam, intel graphics, and EnergyStar Enabled/EPEAT-Gold options. The only way I can keep the webcam and the ES/EPEAT is to upgrade to the NVIDIA graphics card.

As discussed in this forum, the discrete graphics card consumes more power, albeit possibly not all that much. So, wouldn't this make it less likely to be EnergyStar compliant? Can anyone explain how a discrete graphics card would improve the energy efficiency of the system? Should I just forgo the ES/EPEAT certification knowing that my system will actually be more energy efficient my way?

To keep the Intel graphics without a copatibility alert, I can unselect the ES/EPEAT option, but still keep the EnergyStar power adapter. Does anyone know if removing the ES/EPEAT option will actually disable any EnergyStar features in the BIOS or power management or elsewhere? Could I possibly just re-enable these when the laptop arrives?

And yes, I know the NVIDIA is much better, but my D600 with integrated graphics has been running Office, Firefox, VisualStudio, and even SketchUp just fine. No gaming here. I'd rather have the battery life than the graphics performance.

At the risk of getting long winded, I'll mention that I'd love to buy my system from the outlet for a few hundred dollars less and much faster delivery. Unfortunately, none of the available systems claim to be ES/EPEAT rated (Dell outlet phone support says it would be displayed in the specs if the system qualified). If we can agree ES/EPEAT can be achieved via aftermarket methods (perhaps if I buy an ES power adapter?), then I can buy from the outlet worry free.

Thanks in advance.

 

Which is more power efficient:
1 small light, like the one on your printer, which consumes 5W or 3 lights consuming 6W total (all 3 turned on)?

So, yes the Intel solution consumes less power, but is it efficient for the performance it delivers? Well, apparently not.

 

I think it is more likely because the Intel GPU is in the same package as the CPU, so power saving is more difficult to quantify.

John

 

Is there any advantage of having a SSD-disk in the mediabay instead of just mounting it in place of the old HDD? Except cost of course.

It's kind of a disadvantage not having the DVD-ROM, although I don't use it very much. But I do want SSD.


Edit: Anyone tried dual boot with MS-DOS 6.22? That would be cool..

 

The problem with my Wi-Fi not working correctly seems to have been solved by setting 802.11n Channel Width for band 5.2 to auto, instead of "20MHz only".