I tend to agree after our first experience with the E series, not a big fan of the docking setup, compared to what we considered an excellent system with the D series. Not to mention that we have soon to be incompatible D docking equipment sitting everywhere. Unfortunately, while they do still have one or two D models still available in the lineup, I'm sure they're on the quick path to extinction.
The other Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Melahn [mailto:den...@advancedav.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression Just rolled out 2 E6500 laptops to managers and I am considering switching them back to D series. The lack of a simple undock/dock procedure is driving them crazy. If you don't have patience (which they don't) you never know which monitors will work, if any. Think I'll toss the docks and deploy the Es to techs instead. Dennis From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
