Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

I'm a little confused. Surly it will clear up after I receive my machine. Is it necessary to use an mSATA drive, due to space limitations, if you expect to utilize all four drive bays?

Thanks.

 

The mSATA drive bay is one of the four drive bays so if you want to use four drives, one of them will have to be an mSATA drive. A regular drive will not fit there and the physical connector is different.

 

Got it. Thanks so much. Trying to get prepared.

 

Also note that the "4th drive bay" is actually the optical drive bay, a caddy where you can put a 2.5" drive is available from Dell. So you have 2 internal drive bays, the mSATA and the optical which can be swapped for a HDD for a total of 4 drives (HDD/SSD). If you want 4 drives, you have to give up the optical. There are indeed space limits since it's a laptop so you can only put so much 2.5" drive bays in it unlike a desktop where you can house a lot of drives.

 

Still on the sidelines. but I saw this option on the Covet:

What is that second screen option? For Windows 8?

 

The two screens are identical. The one that says 'for Windows 8' is to configure the laptop with Windows 8 display drivers.

If you select Windows 7 as the operating system, select the first screen option.
If you select Windows 8 as the operating system, select the second screen option.

 

The Crucial M4 mSATA SSD has been reported to be reliable but I have no personal experience with it. The mSATA SSD and HDDs in RAID combo is my preferred set up on this laptop. It works fine. A normal 2.5inch SSD (even two) won't get you the space just yet.

The mSATA slot is SATA II. In synthetic tests you can see the difference but day-to-day as a boot/system drive it isn't noticeable.

Two 5400RPM 1TB drives definitely add a bit to the power draw (1.5 watts per drive while reading/writing and 0.6 watts per drive at idle).

 

Hallo,

I have a M6700-related question:

I want to buy a GOOD, decent and big shoulder bag for my laptop.
Seems BOOQ is very good an I found this one. ( see link )
But his inner dimensions seems a little bit smaller than th M6700.
So I'm afraid it wont' fit....


Booq Cobra Case L (206101)

Does anyone here have a BOOQ or otherwise an alternative ???

Thanks !

 

I recommend Tom Bihn bags, backpacks and travel accessories. For the M6700, I recommend a Horizontal Brain Cell, size 2XL (with an absolute shoulder strap) inside of a Super Ego messenger bag (with an absolute shoulder strap).

For a smaller laptop, I recommend a Vertical Brain Cell inside of a Brain Bag.

 

Car - Adapters:

Bought a 120 Watt, but it wasn't accepted

Bought a 90 Watt, it was accepted, but the Cores only go up to 900 MHZ maximum; Reboot with the adapter plugged in didn't make it different; There was a note at start-up that I could press F3 to make notifications about invalid power-supply disappear, which I regret now, don't know if I need this or how to make it reappear. Pressed F1 then to continue start-up.

Any input on this would be nice,

thanks,

Aki