M6600 Owners Thread

I would think Dell would be getting hundreds of complaints of flickering LG panels.

 

Well, I pulled it to swap the panels. The label looks like it was originally an A00 but someone changed the second 0 to a 1 using a pen.

Edit: I don't think they get many complaints mainly because it only effects the lower 3-4 steps which aren't used all that often.

 

Dell gets complaints about a lot of issues, including the LG panel 'flickering' on the XPS 17 board, it's just that they're not very good at addressing them.

 

Shouldn't that read "Dell gets complaints about a lot of issues, including the LG panel 'flickering' on the XPS 17 board, it's just that ON THE DELL XPS 17 BOARD they're not very good at addressing them"

Just out of a meeting at work where I needed to have a chip on my shoulder and zero smiles to get what I wanted. If that last comment sounded mean, blame the chip.

 

Those meetings are no fun

FWIW my XPS 17 had lots of issues but flickering was not among them

 

Well, you get the idea.

 

Can someone tell me what the dell part number/model number is for the power adapter? Thanks.

 

PA-9E FAMILY
MODEL: GA240PE1-00
DPN: J211H
REF NO: ADP-240AB B

Scott

 

Thank you for that!

 

Amazing difference. There I was pondering the SSDs but they do not offer me storage when one of you folks mentioned "ReadyBoost". So I platted about with different SDs and wow my 16GB 9-9-9-24 slowdown impact on the SATA 0 HDD 7200 512 R/W is all forgiven. I went out and bought a 95MB/s Extreme Pro 8GB SD card and gave it over to "ReadyBoost". The difference is absolutely amazing. My VMware WKS8 VMs absolutely fly. Photoshop big impact, Video editing big impact. What a difference for such a commonly regarded insignificance.
Strangely enough I first loaded EboostR and it almost totally stopped caching to the HDD. I was about to Buy it when after reading the spec it seemed predominantly for 32Bit XP OS. Yet on their site they show 64bit installer. I then read on a forum that it was pretty much built into Windows 7 so I pulled out of purchasing it. Now I have installed the Readyboost it is definately showing considerably less HDD caching. Have any of yuz had any experience of EBoostr on a 64bit OS?
I am now going to get a 60GB m-sata and use it for my pagefile as I reckon this will make quite a significant asset. Also I was wondering if I can transfer my Win 7 Pro OS to the msata. What is the best way to do this create another OS install on the msata and dual boot or is there a way of tranfering without having to start from scratch?