M6600 Owners Thread

Check out this thermal pad. Cuts down the hassle.

Looks like the ones used by Dell for the CPU heal paste pre-applied on a brand new heat-sink of Precision.

Coollaboratory Liquid MetalPad - the innovation of cooling for High-End sytems

May be hard to remove.

 

the better fhd panel , exept ips , is the AUO right ?

 

Yes, the AUO B173HW01 v.5 (matte) to be exact. The Dell part number is H8D3K.

Scott

 

thanks Scott!...

 

Please, need help - I do not understand ...
How to interpret these words human of Dell (page #21 of this thread.):

I can not use both slots at once? That is - or mSATA (mini-pcie SSD), or WWAN?
Then why are two of them? Enough of one...
Or is it a bug Dell representative?
Or he said something else? And I understand very little English?

Any qualified answer is interesting.

And Sorry for my english.
Best Regards, Alex.

 

AUO names it anti-glare, but in fact it's matt partially only (it's visible especially when you look from angles -> it's partially/totally glossy not matt like in many other "full matt" panels)

PS. Please note, that Dell doesn't advertise matt in M6600 configs anymore. If I remember correctly, earlier they had option "anti glare" for such "matt" LCDs, now you don't have anything about it.

Big shame, that it's not possible to order and buy LCD panel without any issues - M6600 is generally very nice

 

Owners, please let me know real-life Optimus runtimes in typical Wifi Office-y use with power saving (minimum usable brightness, Power Saving profile, etc). Thanks

Oh, one other question. Does anyone have a M6500, 17" Macbook Pro or an Envy 17-3000 to compare speakers with? I know the M6500 speakers weren't amazing and I really need something more in the MBP / Envy range, since I expect to be using the speakers often.

 

Take a look at this picture originally posted by bokeh.
http://www.appstate.edu/~taylorsa1/m6600/m6600in.jpg

The msata & WWAN are both mini pci-e (full height), and the WLAN is a half-height mini pci-e.

If you ordered your m6600 with WWAN card and a 128gb msata, then you will not have any free upgrade slots left for a full height mini pci-e card.

Let's say you want a WWAN + GPS-A capable card which will require a full height mini pci-e (Huawei EM820w) slot, then you will have to remove the current WWAN card installed. As you need to utilize the antenna cable which is attached to the LCD panel.

You can remove either existing WWAN or the msata, take note these two cards are optional and dell will not give you unless you specifically order and pay extra for it. If you don't have it, then you can go buy from outside retailer or ebay to upgrade your system.

 

What he really wants is confirmation that he can indeed use both a mSata card and a WWAN card at the same time. Not if they will fit, that they will is pretty obvious, but that they will both work simultaneously. I would suspect yes or they wouldn't bother with 2 separate slots. The picture you linked seems to confirm this as well. Still, it would be nice for him to hear from someone actually using both a WWAN and mSATA together.

 

Anyone managed to install Linux (ubuntu) without Wubi on m6600 with the Windows 7 without disrupting the service partition and master boot partition?

The allow trusted execute works on the m6500 with i7-840QM but now with the current 2nd gen i7-2860QM in m6600. When enabled this on the m6600 the Windows won't even boot.