This Dell Makes an AWESOME ThinkPad! (Dell e6410)
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Sorry about the static, I could use some advice on how to manage that. This video is the first of this new style of filming where I'm trying to have more improvisation rather that writing a script before. This video Didn't turn out as well as I'd like, but, hopefully I can figure out how to do better with later videos. For the Dell I did remove the CMOS battery which I plan to replace later.
I actually prefer the older Dell Latitude series to ThinkPads. In many cases the build quality is actually better, the designs are more desirable, and they're sometimes easier to service. Also as someone else mentioned, Dell doesn't blacklist/whitelist components... at least not to the notorious extent of IBM/Lenovo.
I saw this and just upgraded it to a spare Intel 7260 I bought for a thinkpad, but didn't work because of the white list. It works great on the dell. Before I was getting 60mbps, now I'm getting 260mbps. Awesome!
@@Duraputer Is the 7260 a compatible card as listed on the Dell spec sheet for the E6410? Did you get the drivers from the Dell website?
@@FlyboyHelosim I didn't install the drivers, I just put it in Linux recognized it. Didn't really do any research, I just tried it out.
@@Duraputer Ah yeah that makes sense, that's the good thing about Linux. Well I just looked at the spec sheet and it doesn't mention the 7260, so you found another thing as well as the 16 Gb RAM that is officially unsupported. These Dells are pretty flexible!
It's a shame neither of them are as well built. Dell gave up on build quality at best by the 7x90 series. I have a 5420 and 7420 and both of them have paint chipping problems and feel nowhere near as nice as my 7290
😮😮😮 I am surpised by some things on this laptop.
1. 16 gb ram support în 2010. Thats mindblowing since I know someone with hp probook 6540b which only supports 8 gb ram
2. 1 cove gets acest to any part you want to replace on this laptop. Old laptop wins!!!!!!
Dell isn't as popular, but their business class machines are *very* Thinkpad-ish. Possibly more so than real Thinkpads, at times. Cheaper, too, as the Thinkpad cult sorta kinda keeps prices up, whereas sometimes a Dell machine with similar specs is just cheaper due to lower demand. In theory though the Dell machines are just as common as the Thinkpads, so if Lenovo continues making less than ideal machines more people might jump ship. Hopefully Dell notices and doesn't decide to start sucking too.
Also, I preferred your delivery in this video as compared to your prior narrations. There's just a *feeling* when someone's reading from a script, and I would prefer the natural hiccups of an unscripted delivery over that. Makes it feel like you're talking with a friend about something you find cool, rather than trying to give a lecture to a room full of people.
You'll get more natural as you keep going, you're doing excellent!
If Dell does start to 'suck' it won't matter because this era of business laptop is long gone. Modern Dell, just as modern Lenovo, are nothing like the older laptops.
dell unfortunately killed the pointing stick, so the thinkpad cult will never jump ship
For $87 you've still got a pretty capable machine - I'd say the quad core CPU, 16GB RAM, and inexpensive SSD are certainly worth it. Depending on the health of the old battery, a replacement may also have been worthwhile if the old battery didn't have much life left in it.
They certainly don't make machines like this nowadays, which is a shame, and it's great to see the $10 per laptop "job lot" that you purchased, be put to good use!
One small thing I like about the Dell is that it has a UEFI rather than a legacy BIOS. And with the extra upgradability, it's a great competitor to the ThinkPad T410
Thank you algorithm for reccomending another cool tech channel! Also, glad that you ditched the AI voice; your natural voice is way better.
Why is the video so blurry despite it being in 1080p60? was it originally at a lower resolution and you rescaled it to 1080p?
I'm not sure, I'm using obs to record with a 1080p cam Instead of my phone. The raw footage is 1080p, and I have obs set to 1080p, so I'm not sure. I think I'll need to go back to using my phone until I can figure it out.
the video was filmed in 2010
Great video and a cool tidbit about the 1st gen Core i7 Quad-core processors. I always wondered why 16GB wouldn't work in my e6410 with a dual-core i7. I may have to try the 32GB loadout on my Precision m6500.
FYI, up until around the 8th gen, you can draw a rough equivalence between a ThinkPad T4x0 and Latitude 364x0 where 'x' is the generation (same for the T5x0 and E65x0). Many of the same upgrades will work on both, although Dell did limit some things on the older e-series Latitude. For instance, the E6440 is the first model to support an mSATA SSD in the WWAN slot (which apparently the ThinkPad will support as far back as the T420). Similarly, upgrading from an HD to HD+ screen on the Latitude may require replacing the screen cable as well (single vs. dual channel LVDS). On the upside, the Latitude does not have hardware whitelists, so WiFi card replacement is trivial.
I just upgraded it to a Intel 7260 WiFi card, results are great!
@@Duraputer I need to grab some inexpensive cards so that I can upgrade my 6420s and 6430s fron 802.11n to 802.11ac.
Just curious, does your e6410 have the ExpressCard slot or the Cardbus (PCMCIA) slot. Apparently, they could be ordered with either but can't be upgraded without switching the motherboard. The bigger models from that generation (e.g., Precision m6500 came with both slots).
@@johnruschmeyer5769 it has a 26 pin 54mm express card slot.
As long as you've got one of the Quad Core CPU options, 32Gb RAM is officially supported on the M6500 anyway. It's no secret.
I used to do my study about 5 years ago on a Dell E6420, just with a 2nd gen i5 and 8GB of RAM. I debated on whether I'd keep it or sell it as parts, ultimately decided I'm keeping it as a spare machine that I'll upgrade to a quad core i7 (like your ThinkPad T420) and I'll replace the battery, maybe chuck 16GB of RAM in if I feel like it later. I completely agree that these Dell machines are nothing to be scoffed at, they are extremely modular and Linux Mint/LMDE is still so usable on them.
I used to have one of these! solid laptop and I got it for a hell of a deal iirc, I remember trying to run skyrim on it when I was bored in class and while it DID run it was not a fun experience
That's wicked cool about the quad core upgrade, I wish the ThinkPad T410 could do that but it doesn't have the microcodes in the BIOS or there is some other incompatibility. whereas some of the T510 are able to support the swap since they share BIOS with the W510. A lot of the things people like about older ThinkPads were presented in other business brands as well, things like tanky construction and modularity, such as this Dell.
I have a Thinkpad t420 that I still use, upgraded to 8gb DDR3 RAM and an 128gb msata. The CPU upgrade is a but challengeing
I am currently saving to get a precision m6800, gonna slap a gtx 1060 there and it'd be good for anything
I got L420 for starter laptop when my desktop monitor goes funny. Definitely grab Dell when i got the money
Regarding what you spent: eBay tends to be a better site for sourcing batteries.
Which store are you purchase ,all those things,that was crazy man 😮 , as a ThinkPad ❤️ lovers i could not afford the older version of ThinkPads😢
Find a lower spec model without a hard drive. It'll save you lots of money
@@joseprieto yess, I absolutely agree with these ✨
What happened to the badass British man who used to narrate your video?
Could have been useful to edit out your mistakes out of the final upload
It was authentic and there weren't so many mistakes to make this annoying. A bit like old TV shows about tech: not as polished but much more authentic and approachable than today.
Remove the battery first...
These laptops are good but they cannot run windows 11 .
Yes they can
And I hate windows 11 who needs that sh*t requirements
Have you ever used tpm??