We just got three of the E6500 and we love them, well for the most part since we are having a weird display issue anyone else experience this?
We replaced 3 working D6XX series laptops all of them with dual monitor out of the docking station 1 VGA 1 DVI connection to matched Viewsonic VG2030wm monitors, so we know they were all working fine. Now the e6500 and dock's we got wont display the DVI signal on the Viewsonic VG2030wm monitors while VGA works fine. We've tried all combos, swap monitors, docks, laptops dvi cables dual link and single link, BIOS settings and nothing makes it work. We even tried the display port to DVI cable and still nothing monitor light remains amber. XP Vista and Ubuntu do the same thing. I did take it home at wouldn't you know it works fine on a Samsung monitor go figure, We've asked Viewsonic and Dell and they've pretty much tell us to pound sand since Viewsonic says that their monitors are fine and are DVI standard and Dell tell us that the laptop/docks work fine on DELL hardware. Any other ideas? I'm trying to escalate farther up the DELL, Viewsonic chain since we would be buying the E6500 as our new replacement laptops From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression So true, so true. Add that the State only bids out the contracts once a year with renewal clauses built in and unrealistic goals and you have a poor vendor of a good product blowing sales. Jon On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Vicky Spelshaus <[email protected]> wrote: I feel your pain. It's never the best vendor or the best product, it's the one with the state contract. I tend to tell cold calling sales reps that their product could be the best ever at a close to nothing cost (could even make me my coffee and give me a massage), but if they don't have a state contract..... On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: They are not on our list of approved vendors for the IBM's. Jon On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Martin Blackstone <[email protected]> wrote: CDW gets them to me in a day. J From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression We dropped the IBM/Lenovo line due to the reseller we had/have to use. They never got an order correct or to us in one piece during the 7 years we used them. It was always a fight and multiple changes to PO's. All that said they were rock solid lasted forever and weighed a ton. They also took a lot of abuse but refused to die. If we could change the contractor we would go back to them but State purchasing says use this contractor. Jon On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Martin Blackstone <[email protected]> wrote: Go grab yourself a Lenovo T400. I love this laptop. Love it. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression I agree on the Software but I don't like the docking station much. I have been having issues with it hanging on the docking station but it may just be the docking station. Jon On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote: E6500 here too, very impressed. Solid as a rock. Not too found of the new Dell Control Point software though... ________________________________ From: Mike Gill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression I just got my E6500, and I have to say so far I'm impressed. Its internal components are all accessible from the bottom and the magnesium chassis feels much stronger than the plastic ones. -- Mike Gill From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression This is my first time really getting my hands on a Dell Latitude E4500 since Dell went away from the D series. (The ones we have sold in the last couple months have been installed by my lakey.) Is it me, or are these being made in the same factory as the Lenovo's? It looks to me like they could use the same docking station, batteries and other accessories. 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