The E6500 was a replacement for my Mini-9, surprised to find it soon replaced my Desktop (Dell Precision 450 - Video editing station). I got a low end one with the 8400 CPU, but all the other bells and whistles. A few months later I was asked to recommend a laptop and I pointed to mine. My client opted for a top of the line (some people just don't listen all that well). Since the only difference at the time was the processor and HDD size I couldn't resist taking the time to set the new one up with identical software - wanted to "drag race" them and see how much faster the better CPU was - I was surprised to see that the difference wasn't that much - only about 2 seconds on boot time - everything else was in the 1 second range. (Cost difference, about $300).
No Complaints at all - (OK, it would be great if it was lighter, Might pick up an Acer One - for that...) -