Dell Latitude E6500
Design
From 2.3 kg (with optional battery smaller), the all-black Dell Latitude E6500 somehow manages to produce both the sombre design notes of business along with the style of consumer-oriented notebooks. While plastic / magnesium alloy chassis is all angles, small details like the blackened brushed aluminum finish on the back push the new Latitude new directions.
A key part of business design seems to be matte, and here Dell delivers. Matte screen, matte keyboard, matte surface, the only thing that qualifies as brilliant is the Dell logo itself - a good thing for usability as the usual cavalcade of fingerprints and obnoxious screen brightness is minimized.
You will not find the set of multimedia buttons here either, with only volume up, down and silence that arises. You can, however, create your own hotkeys to do the job with Dell included software. The usual status lights are along the same plane as the volume buttons, and otherwise things are kept in a minimalist aesthetic.
The Latitude E6500 offers navigation options for both trackpad and drug tragics joystick, buttons conveniently located for both mouse and a middle button scrolling mode is easy with the joystick.
A few useful trackpad extras we have not seen here before have slipped through Dell's own software - a circular movement, a technique that lets you run your finger in a circle either clockwise or counterclockwise displacement continuous, uninterrupted. It is a very useful trick that makes life a little easier for super-long documents. Another trick is to use the left side panel control in a manner similar to the scroll zone in order to enlarge the screen.
On the negative side, which are often found when using the trackpad that when the finger would be diverted through the horizontal scroll area the cursor would stop altogether and switch to horizontal displacement, interrupting our efforts.
Like other trackpad software, Dell allows you to identify the areas of displacement, but the functionality is not as customizable as that offered by other manufacturers only allows them to "narrow", "normal" and "comprehensive." You have scroll zones, or none at all, compared off just horizontal or vertical displacement. Dell uses an ALPS trackpad mark here, although competition Synaptics solution and software offers a considerable advantage.
The 15.4-inch matte screen is high resolution, a weight of 1,920 x1, 200, a resolution usually reserved for independent monitors of 24 inches. Despite this, the text is crisp and readable, the extra screen space is a blessing for those who work with CAD, 3D, design or video.
Also has an ambient light sensor, this is the second time we've seen this technology in a laptop, which automatically adjusts screen brightness depending ambient light. In high light situations the screen grows brighter, in low light becomes darker. It is a practice which is also likely to save some extra battery time, and can be disabled if you find it annoying.
Also relating to the ambient light sensor is the keyboard, you can turn on the backlight blank when things get too dark, or simply respond whenever you use the keyboard or mouse. It also means doing work in these long-haul aircraft Travel may be done a little more quietly, without waking your neighbor for having to turn on "personal" light above you.
Speakers stand to your keyboard, however, their contribution is global symbol (despite the huge grille there's only one small cone on each side), and we'd like to see them reduced or moved elsewhere for a full numeric keypad.
Our review sample came with a nine-cell battery sticking out the end, but fortunately not on the road. Smaller options of four or six cells are available, as well as a slice of 12-cell battery, which, in coordination with nine-cell, sits across the base of the laptop and extender clips in spring if they need long battery as possible.
Finally, the power pack has gone on a diet, opting for slim but wide, instead of something that could kill a small child. This makes it convenient to slip into a carry bag and carry with you.
Features
Expandability seems to be the motto the E6500, even sans docking station, as it seems that almost everything you need. The requisite fingerprint scanner is that of course, as is the smart card (SC) of slots, however, there is also a contact area hit the SC to the right of the trackpad as well as three USB ports, an eSATA / USB, FireWire, headphone and microphone port, removable DVD +-RW, PCMCIA and Express Card slots, SD card reader, VGA and DisplayPort out, gigabit Ethernet and a modem port.
A Wi-Fi receiver sits on the right, but as usual, which is pretty useless, since only warns of the presence of Wi-Fi - no if the signal is strong, or if it is encrypted. Pulling out the battery reveals a space for a SIM slot, should you choose to have a WWAN (3G/HSPA) module installed for an extra AU $ 299.
The Latitude E series sees the launch of a new BIOS that is relatively high resolution and mouse controllable, and quite frankly, very nice. Dell did not elaborate on what powers, so he decided to pull the laptop apart and take a look at the BIOS chip. Despite our best efforts however, were completely disrupted by the construction of Dell goblins, and he could not understand a way to completely remove the casing around the motherboard without breaking things.
While we strongly suspect that the BIOS may be Linux-based (Everest seems to think that is developed by Phoenix, while everything else says it is Dell), like the upcoming "Latitude ON" quick boot operating system. Unfortunately Latitude ON is not present here - at this point is only available in the ultraportable Latitude E4200 and E4300 machines.
Present is the ability to turn off almost everything in the machine, and USB PowerShare - name Dell for technology that enables USB ports to stay powered even when the machine is off. You can even specify what the battery level PowerShare to turn off.
A new post we will look at all laptops shortly is the ability to connect the powerbrick, keep the battery in, but not recharged. After the explosive battery fiasco last year that Sony has affected many laptops across many brands, companies air got a little touchy about letting the batteries charge up mid-flight. This works around this issue.
The hardware specification is decent and Centrino 2 certified. Our review sample was built on a Core 2 Duo T9500 processor, 2GB RAM, Nvidia Quadro NVS 160m (256MB, DDR3) GPU, a record 160 GB 7200 rpm drive and featured wireless N and Bluetooth. Quadro is a professional range NVIDIA graphics, and high-speed hard drive also gives it away as a machine more suited to graphics / visual production. Anyone else purchasing the unit as a result (aside from gamers) will find it offers a more than sufficient for their needs.
As usual for Dell, a variety of hardware options are available - our review unit was ordered to AU $ 3,771, however, a base unit comes in at AU $ 2,000, reducing the screen to 1280 x 800 and Intel X4500 graphics. If you really want to go The Full Monty, you can get a 64GB SSD hard drive for another AU $ 1,183, bringing the price of the whole "pimp" E6500 to around AU $ 5,000. Of course, your Prices will vary depending on your negotiations when purchasing on an enterprise scale.
VPro is also included for remote administration (supporting Active Management Technology 4.0), and the Latitude E6500 is the first system we've seen from Dell, the company is offering Windows Vista ships 64-bit, with a configuration that allows up to 8 GB of RAM.
Our E6500 came very light on pre-installed software, including Roxio DVD Creator, Adobe Flash Player Sun's Java. The system also comes with Dell's management software known as "Control Point", which provides a central terminal for managing all the features of the E6500.
Performance
The Quadro spat back a 3DMark06 score of 1,996, a respectable result for a laptop. PCMark05 made the most of the configuration, returning a great 6092, and a creditable 829 in Cinebench. Battery life was pretty miserable, although considering our super-specced hardware and the high resolution screen, this is not surprising.
Hide all saving features energy, setting screen brightness to maximum and playing a DVD, the E6500 lasted barely 91 minutes with the nine-cell, 85Whr battery. Obviously with the group of characteristics enabled energy savings and a lower specced machine, this would increase massively.
The Dell Latitude E is a glimpse of the future of laptops. The challenge has been released. Toshiba, Lenovo, Fujitsu - your turn.
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