M6600 Owners Thread

Scott I am ready to buy, but as mention above still No cable compatible as you told me...

 

Yes, if I had more time I would see if I could pin-out the system interfaces then modify one of the cables I have now to work. Having a schematic for the system would be GREAT and make life so much easier.

Scott-

 

I really appreciate all the information I know you're overloaded here but this is a big bummer for me as I have been waiting much longer than anticipated for the new processor

So how much better do you think Ivy Bridge will be and does anyone know what the prospective clock speeds are I am looking for an investment that will hopefully last five years and if that means a couple months more weight then so be it but I can't imagine it can really be that much better I mean is it Gonna draft a floor plan for me now I'd be interested in knowing if you think they will incorporate ivy bridge in the 6600 or if a custom install would be possible I would also be interested in hearing your thoughts on the arrival date of the 6700

 

I wish I would've noticed you were using AVG before because I have experience using now and it's a total piece Imo

It would take my computer at least 15 minutes before it was usable after boot up although I'm not really sure of a good alternative

 

I must be honest I have been using AVG and AVGIS for quite a number of years and installed it on dozens of my clients systems and as a whole it is a good piece of kit. I am a software designer and so I need pretty secure systems as well as installing it on the VM.s as well. In my experience AVG has been pretty much the most consistent. Of course it is not without it's nuances and the biggest problem most people have is not reading how to configure it properly. And even when you are pretty familiar with it it always manages something to bite you in the ar$e. I have yet to find a system that works totally efficiently and having been a Hub/sysop from the 80's, believe me if I earned 1 pound for every hour I have wasted twatting around with networks locked out by AV's and firewalls I would be a multi billionaire by now.

 

Anyone needs legit keys for antivirus/internet security software (Norton, Kaspersky, Trend,..) contact me for best price. Around $4-$6 per key for 100 or 180 days, depends

 

IB should be a 10-20% improvement based on Intel's previous releases. Specifics are most likely going to be made public at CES 2012 early next month in Las Vegas. Any of the current quad core processors support business and personal applications very well. My 2720QM screams in any application I throw at it from PCB design to CNC encoding to photo and video editing. In reality, the real world performance differences between something like the 2700 series and the 2900 series processors is not as big as many think. If you review the numbers below, you will see two processors that are functionally within the same ballpark, but on different coasts when it comes to price, which makes no sense to me.

Intel Core i7 Mobile Extreme Edition i7-2960XM vs Intel Core i7 Mobile i7-2760QM (PGA)

Regardless, in 3 to 5 years, newly discovered quantum computing technologies (now being tested at UCLA) and "stacked" multi-core/multi-layer [06-cores * 05-0.020 micron layer processes = 30*2 threads/ea = 60 logical processors!!) solutions will be common day; making our current [expensive] hardware seem rather 1990's DX-4 120-ish.

Just figure as technology progresses, so does the reduction of lead time to market. We are already seeing this in the mobile phone industry. What would take 8-12 months to develop just 4 years ago now take less than 3 months. This speed will continue to increase with the use of newer off the shelf SoC (system on chip) options.

Anyway, in the end, buy whatever you feel works best for you and do not listen to guys like me that consider hardware life cycles to be more in the 8-16 month range (not 36-60 months).

Scott-

 

I'll second Scott's earlier recommendation of Microsoft Security Essentials. It works well for me. That's saying something, I'm not unknown to download dodgy software for various reasons . It doesn't slow my PC down, sometimes I forget it's on my PC. In fact, I only remembered I had an antivirus on this laptop when I saw your post about AVG.

And it's free!

Microsoft Security Essentials - Free Antivirus for Windows

 

Thirded.

Ages ago, I got fed up with Norton becoming bloatware and I switched to AVG. AVG has a free version but it does take some tweaking to get the best experience (IMO), and it likes to nag you to upgrade to the paid version from time to time. It's also had a few very notable cases where they pushed definitions that detected innocent files as malware, false-positive (in one case rendering XP systems unbootable)... makes me nervous.

When MSE came along, I switched and never looked back. It does exactly what anti-virus software should do: protect your system, stay up to date, use minimal resources, and stay out of your way unless there actually is a problem. No tweaking necessary, it's good out of the box and all options have sensible defaults. That it's free is a huge bonus too. And yes, I actually have used it to clean pretty messed up systems successfully, and had it successfully avert disaster on family members' systems a couple of times. No complaints.

 

NIS 2012 is totally a facelift. I've been using MSE for 2 years and recently switched to NIS 2012. Totally different. I feel much more secured now.

MSE is great, light and free. But its not a comprehensive protection.