M6600 Owners Thread

Glad I decided to drop in and see what service and issues the M6600 owners are having. I was looking into purchasing a M6600 however, some of these issues make me think that I would be better off with the HP or Lenovo. Why should I consider sticking with the M6600?
The configuration would be as follows:
i7-2960XM, 16GB-1333 Ram, Quadro 5010M, 1080P IPS with 128GB SSD Primary and two 750GB 7.2k HDs in Raid 1.

 

Really odd stuff here. I was getting the LCD flickering at the lower backlight settings, I did the A07 bios update, and it went away. Or so I thought, until today, when it came back full time at the lower backlight settings.

Dell service knows about this problem. and he said the only thing they know to work is a screen change . I know some others in here had that done, and it did not work.

So tonight, I figured what the heck, let's flash the A07 bios again. BAM, flickering is gone again. Who knows for how long though. Makes me think it has to be software related somehow. Or could it be some voltage settings that the bios resets, then it creeps down over time, causing the flickering. Could it be the battery?

 

love the size of the screen

 

double post.

 

I was thinking of purchasing the M6600 as well (or M4600) and judging by these problems, which really are unforgivable and should not even exist in a professional system, lead me to think there is something not quite right with Dell's Quality Control department.

I am not too keen on either HP or Lenovo myself so I am considering sticking with my current Sony laptop for the next 12 months and hope Dell sorts itself out otherwise they have lost a customer in me.

 

Hello. It is me again with another problem.

I bought M6600 with mSSD disk ( 128GB ) and one HDD 750GB disk. My M6600 came with OS ( Win 7 ) installed on HDD. So i removed HDD, install OS on mSSD and than put HDD inside. So now I have Win 7 on mSSD ( it boots from mSSD ) and clear ( nothing on it ) HDD.

I bought another HDD 750GB, installed it and set RAID 0 in BIOS. But now my system wont boot from mSSD. In the BIOS I can boot from 2 Internal Hard Drives, but booting from mCard is not available ( there is no option to boot it from mSSD ).

What are my options now ? Can I have system on mSSD and have 2x 750GB RAID 0 for storage ? If yes, than how I can achieve this ?

 

It's very, very difficult to show it in the picture, but here is some ugly try:

1. old_small -> I'm trying to make screen picture from disabled old system with cheap Samsung LCD (IMHO really matt). The worst thing are small circles (fingerprints ).

2. dell_small -> the same with Dell with premium AUO LCD staying in the same place. As you can see, there are much bigger "sharp" differences between dark and light areas (matt surface has got much smaller pixels and it's more close to the glare surface)

Unfortunately pictures don't show full effect and I apologise for it.

I understand, that Dell is dependend from LCD vendors....but matt should be real matt (not half matt).

It's interesting, how it's resolved by other companies and maybe for example buying FHD screen directly from other laptop vendor will resolve issue (maybe they're using additional matt surfaces or something - I will try to make deeper investigation, when will have time). the question is, whether M6600 will work with such screen or not....

 

I don't know, if you will be able to use these 3 HDDs like you want (for checking, whether your config is possible and whether is silent enough for you) and how will you like screen.

I don't know, what will be software overclocking possibilities supported by BIOS (especially for CPU), but M6600 has got very nice hardware cooling system (two fans) and this will be probably the biggest advantage Additionally M6600 is rather solid and modular...

 

This might be possible but I cannot offer detailed steps. The solution I have in mind is to install the Windows boot loader on your RAID 0 array and have it direct the booting to the Windows install you have on the mSATA card. I used to have a similar setup with a Windows XP install (boot loader on one drive booting the OS from another)... I've never tried to replicated with Vista/7, but I don't see why it couldn't be done.

Probably will involve booting the Windows DVD and using the bootsect command to install the boot loader, and then using a tool like EasyBCD to set it up.

Maybe this will point you in the right direction.

[Edit]
There's always the software RAID option which may not perform quite as well, depending on how good the hardware controller is.

 

Why why is it so hard to find a good workstation which meats all your requests even some of them.
Lenovo W520 great workstation, reliability, keyboard and great Lenovo service . But doesn't have powerful video card and IPS screen and has throttle issues.

Dell M6600- Has IPS, powerful video card, good quallity build, 2 seperate cooling systems for gpu and cpu. BUT has screen bugs and Dell's crappy service, good keyboard but not like lenovo's.

HP 8760W- Has IPS screen, beautiful , good build quality, powerfull video cards. But IPS screen comes only with M5950 card!!! Who will opt for 17inch heavy and big for such a mid range card with IPS????? better get the younger brother. Dont know about HP service. Keyboard is so so, heard it also gets hot and throttles .

Why WHYYY we have to deal with such stuff when we are paying 4000-6000$ Those problems should not exist for this price and machine type. How does dell's flagship workstation come with screen bugs?
I hope lenovo return the W700 series with IPS and it will be a knockout!!! I dealt with Lenovo and never seen any odd issues or at least they got fixed , the legendary keyboard WOW!! and service was the best I have ever seen for everything!