A quick thought, I promise…
I’ve had the opportunity to use the Dell Latitude E4300 and E6500 recently and it was a very pleasant user experience. It was nice because it didn’t come with a lot of crapware that the Lenovo IdeaPad came with, the laptops are fast and responsive (like any new laptop should be!)
However, one thing that irks me about the E series…the trackpad. I get that the form factor for the E4300 (a 13″ laptop) is much smaller…and would have a smaller trackpad, but why oh why is the E6500’s trackpad (a 15.4″ laptop) the same size as the E4300?!
The E-series laptop has a trackpad of roughly 2.5″ x 1.5″…my Latitude D510 has a bigger trackpad than that (2.5″ x 2.0″). Although I think it’s excusable for the E4300…the E6500 should have a much larger pad, more like my MacBook Pro (approximately 3.5″ x 2.5″–I think the new ones are even larger!).
Also…who do I talk to about enabling two finger scrolling on these PCs?!