M6600 Owners Thread

Since installing 16Gb ram 99924 to my M6600 it has slowed down my R/W access to my HDD. If I install a 280m/s 60gb m-sata and create a 60GB pagefile will that improve the operating speed? I appreciate the programs still have to load into the pagefile initially but it should speed up running my graphics and VMs I would of thought?

 

Brand new Dell Precision M6600 owner here.

And brand new forum member.

Bring on the hazing.

A couple of questions from a n00b:

1. Should I have received a printed owner's manual in the box with my laptop? (I didn't).

2. I want to wirelessly transmit from my laptop to my Samsung HDTV. Netgear does not list the Dell Precision M6600 as a supported laptop in its online compatibility list for Push2TV. Is it compatible? I assume "yes", but I am curious as to why Netgear wouldn't list it. I have an i7-2960XM with Intel Centrino Advanced -N + WiMAX 6250.

2. Can anyone tell me the pros/cons of Push2TV PTVU1000 vs PTV2000 vs Vizio XWH200? I know this is not specifically an M6600 question, but folks here may have knowledge of this.

I have tried searching the site for these answers but the search results page keeps disappearing. Seems to be a JavaScript bug. (I'm using Firefox 9.0.1 on Win 7 Ultimate).

Dell royally screwed up my order. Just so you know.

 

It did, but I keep the 240 at work and bought a 130 W for home / travel use. It just doesn't make sense that the laptop runs CONSIDERABLY FASTER on the battery than with the 130 W adapter.

 

How'd they screw it up?

 

I doubt it. Having faster page storage doesn't really help if you have ample RAM. Having a page file that large is completely unnecessary for most workloads.

If you want to do something with a smaller SSD to help performance, you should investigate ReadyBoost or some other caching solution that can service disk read requests (and doesn't get wiped out every time you reboot).

 

Do you have Premier installed on your boot drive?

 

Yeah.... i know, i know ... but anyway never had such problems before, even on similar one drive machines

 

The reason I ask is that I had the same issue pop up after swapping the drives between machines. Is there any chance that the drive letter of the Creative Suite install changed?

 

1. Wrong Intel Centrino Wireless chipset.

2. Wrong optical drive. Then they shipped me (and of course charged me for) a replacement optical drive, which doesn't even fit in my M6600. So that's two wrong optical drives so far. And the one I want is no longer in stock and I can't order it until it's back in stock.

And if I was supposed to get a printed owner's manual with my expensive new laptop, I didn't.

I must add that the folks at Dell are very courteous and professional and very eager to please. It's my impression that their hearts are in the right place. They genuinely seem as if they want to make it right.

I'm certainly frustrated, having spent a great deal of time on the phone dealing with these two problems, but the employees and managers are just so nice that it's hard to be angry with them.

 

Anyone have an idea of when dell refreshes this line with IB ?