New Latitude and Precision's

What about the E4310 and E4210?

 

One of the recent Optiplexs I am pretty sure was Bon Jovi, seems like they typically have fun with it.

 

Cool info, thanks! Please inquire your source about dates, pretty please
Right now my top choice is a Lenovo T410s, but if a comparable and prettier alternative is released by Dell soon....

 

Nothing on these two yet. Regarding dates I dont know, but since they exist in the "parts System" my guess would be next month.

 

next month for m4500 ??

 

I would guess so. Got some more info on the E6510. Looks like 2 of the Processors gonna be i7-720QM and i7-820QM

1333 Mhz on the RAM..

 

So, the E6400 appeared around August, I got mine in December, and it was about June when a clean install of Vista x64 and drivers (switched to AHCI mode) yielded a stable machine... you know that feeling where you can count on it to run without being weird or crashing. My general conclusion being that driver stability lagged the hardware release by so many months. I include observations from this forum, not just my experience. I stopped troubleshooting in June after installing the latest nVidia driver (from OEM site) finally fixed random video crashes, and using the Vista audio driver stopped the IDT driver from, well... stopping. Next stop for this machine will be Win7.

For the record, I clean installed this machine multiple times as it was unstable from the beginning. When you do this, you get a feel for the hardware vs. the software. The hardware always felt solid. As I layered on the drivers, I could feel system stability and confidence decline... until my June install.

The E-Series was newly released (and with Vista). Do you think the coming refresh of the E-Series will be better prepared for prime time? I need another one but I'm not looking forward to repeating the E6400 out-of-box experience. That's not to say I would shop elsewhere since I do believe my experience is not unique to Dell. I just want a better new notebook experience! It sort of comes down to Dell not pushing the product out to market prematurely... I hope they tighten this up a bit.

GK

 

news?

 

I look upon these new models as refreshes, not a new platform. The underlying Dell software (DCP) etc already exists and would be available as the new models were developed.

Also, whereas Vista introduced a lot of changes relative to XP, Win 7 is an improved Vista so there be less cause for software incompatibility.

What do we really expect of the refreshes?: New Intel platform and graphics options; hopefully no new displays. USBB 3 would be nice but is unlikely. It would be also be good if Dell found some speakers to replace the E6400's tweeters. There's no other good reason to change the chassis.

John

 

Switchable graphics would be nice though...