Dunno about the E6500 -- brand new, but looks great.

I'm drooling over the E4300 (not yet available), which appears to share similar (new) construction.

I have zero complaints about our Dell notebooks here, and the lone Latitude X1 we have is all-metal and has survived many airports and countries just fine. The E4300 looks like a worthy successor to it, at exactly 1.0Kg (lighter than an EeePC).

Cheers