Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Not what I'm saying, what I mean is that for someone not doing professional work (and can accept an OK panel) or not doing video/photo editing, the TN is a decent panel to have (the 1080p one). If you make a living out of photo editing or want your photos to look like what you print on screen, get the IPS.

The IPS display is 10-bit per color which is too much to handle for the Intel HD4000 (it can only do 8-bit) as a result, the nVidia GPU is always in use with the IPS display and the HD4000 is effectively disabled.

I personally don't mind the TN panel since i'm using my M6700 for number crunching.

 

Optimus allows you to save power by using the Intel HD 4000 GPU most of the time and only firing up the NVIDIA card when it is needed.

I agree with tijo. If you do graphics or photos or video or other work where color is important, you should take a hard look at the IPS screen, it will serve you better.

 

Thanks guys for your help.

I believed IPS panel was able to work also with 8 bit depth (so to swtich to HD4000) the time when, for example, you navigate and you don't need any particular color depth...

 

Technically, yes, it could be done, but the problem is that the Optimus works in a way that the external card signal goes through the Intel GPU connections (rough description; there's an article on Anandtech which describes how it actually works) so you couldn't get the 10-bit color to pass through when you need it - hence why a separate connection on the motherboard is used (and thus a custom motherboard) which circumvents the Intel IGP altogether.

 

It's probably that the HD4000 isnt route to the display port on the board or something. The IPS interposer use a different connector compare to the normal LVDS screen.

The IPS does run fine even you feed 8bit signal(hence people get it running with 680m/7970m), just that premier color lost the gamut mapping options.

 

When you say that, it would seem then that if you wanted to swap out a current IPS display with one of the others then you couldn't do it without replacing the board too...less ur saying youd just have to change out the connection cable between the board and LCD as well and that's where the Intel is eliminated in route to the IPS...

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The board have the displayport (from scrott, I have no idea it is or not), and LVDS right next to each other.

Detail from
http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...-display-diy-upgrade-conversion-thread-4.html

 

Hi all,

I received my M6700 (K3000M, 512MB SSD) two weeks ago. Before purchasing, the tech chat informed me that the hard drive would be a Samsung Pro 840. It is not. It is a LITEON LCT-512M3S. I was able to get the price down a little, and figured that I would add a second Samsung after I received it to configure as RAID 1. Now, however, I can't find a similar LITEON drive on the market. I'm trying to talk to Dell, but so far they aren't being very helpful (they just want to know if I want to send the laptop back).

So, question to the group...based on hardware benchmarks, this drive seems to beat the Samsung. So that is good. But if I put a Samsung or Crucial in as a second drive, can turn the RAID 1 operation on (I am interested in data preservation, not increasing speed) and not be impacted by the fact that I have two different SSD drives in there? They would be the same size (512MB), but should I be worried about controller differences, etc? Also, does anyone have a link to purchasing a similar LITEON LCT-512M3S drive?

Thanks!

 

It should work with two different drives. You'll be limited in space to the smaller drive (they may be some small number of MBs different in capacity because they are different models).

You should check drives from Plextor. Looks like they own Liteon and are selling some drives under the Plextor brand too.

 

Thanks Aaron. I went ahead and picked up a M5Pro from Plextor. I'll let everyone know if there are any issues.