M6600 Owners Thread

I've used both, but I've only used on 15" machines. (95% Gamut panel is only for 15".. The 17" has 90%)

Pros of RGB IPS
Default color balance
Viewing angles
Personal satisfaction of knowing that you have the best

Cons of RGB IPS
Grainy coating (Much, much worse than the matte 95%)
Everyone can see what you are doing on your laptop

If you absolutely need the touchscreen, go with the 95% gamut and probably you won't notice any differences granted that you calibrate it using a professional puck. But when it is not calibrated, the colors are really off for the 95% gamut screen.

 

Is this the one?

2nd HDD / SSD Caddy - DELL Precision M6400, M6500, M4600, M6600 [OBHD9-SATA-SATA-B] - $42.00 : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

I was about to post this up. It posted before by another forum member but from a different link, but only in the UK.

Just try to repair with this.

** Note: Disect one problem at a time for the root cause and try the best possible solution. SSD or Optical Drive. Both are different problems.

1. Run "sfc / scannow" from cmd as administrator.

2. Perform "As SSD" benchmark. From the benchmark output, compare with the same make/model that you have with the benchmark online.
http://download.techworld.com/3248894/as-ssd-benchmark-16/

All else fails.
sfc found corrupt files but "was unable to fix". Now what? - Microsoft Answers

or duckduckgo ! Use different combination of search patterns.

That's a standard respond from Dell Technician. You get 10 answers for one problem. Most of the time, it's not fixed. As they are only reading from scripts and a knowledge based system.

If 2nd call in support still fails ask to talk to a level 2. Clearly describe your problem, tell them spefically to simulate it from their end and get back to you.

FYI, constant blinking of the Disk access light is common in Windows (worst if Vista - an OS that should never have existed. Resort to use Linux for 4 years with no Microsoft Products) due to the swap file. Maybe try deleting the swap file, reboot and recreate back again. With this two options to test out one after another.

1. Set swap file to auto managed by OS.

2. Set swap file to fixed size.

Observe every single detail. Then leave the machine idle. If it's excessive blinking at an internal of 1/8th of a second (e.g. as if the LED are like always on like a street lamp for long hours even when idle) then worst case scenario rest to factory default image.

Most importantly, does it feel sluggish with basic task like opening a below 10-200k word pad file. Else nothing is wrong. Coz it's hard for us to visualise the meaning of constantly blinking.

m6600 is not a perfect machine. Just better in most of the aspects/price than most on a similar range.

On thing that puzzled me is the "Intel Smart Response Technology" or "Quick boot - without resorting to RAID-0" is not available on QM67 unlike in the Ultrabooks with Z68 chipsets. Boot up is slow on a machine which is much more powerful than an ultrabook with Ultra Low Voltage processors and lower-end SSDs.

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-032826.htm

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2593

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Intel-Smart-Response-Technology-Explained/1292

 

Big thing to remember - the AUO is 6 bit and the IPS is 10 bit. Yes, you have the wide gamut, but at 6 bits, you are chopping up the Red, Green, and Blue into 64 shades for a total of 262,144 colors. With 10 bits it is 1024 shades of each color for a total of 1,073,741,824 colors.

The 6 bit panel will use dithering and rapid LED switching to approximate 8 bit color. The 10 bit panel is a true 10 bit panel.

Don't forget viewing angles and contrast ratios.

 

Thank you for both of your replies. It's more for personal use than professional. My last laptop was a Studio 17 (1737) with a 95% gamut LCD. While the AUO in the M6600 is nice it just feels a bit dull an dim by comparison even when calibrated (btw thanks Bokeh for the calibration profile). My only real worry is getting dust in between the LCD panel and the touchscreen when swapping the panel. Well, that and finding a quality B173HW01 v4 at a decent price.

 

what panels have you tried with M6600 ? which one had the best matt ? (I have currently AUO v5, I can see myself instead of picture and I'm trying to do something with this, unfortunately nobody here was able to give any info related to this...)

 

Your Studio 1737 had the Dell X919N panel, which is the B173HW01 V4. You can still find them in the third party market, but you will pay about $200 delivered for a A+ defect free panel.

Scott

 

well, there is one reason, that Windows XP is still so popular - for many tasks it's much better than Vista/7.

Everything you can do is disabling all prefetching, disabling swapfile, defragmentation and some other standard tasks (btw, it's partially proposed by companies producing SSD).

 

Actually I believe it was an LGD01B3. It was most definitely 16:10 and 1920x1200. If it was 16:9 I would just swap them How I miss 16:10...

The B173HW01 V4 is the one I am considering as a replacement for this B173HW01 V5. Do you have any recommendations for a source?

 

There are no claims to disable swap file by SSD manufacturers. I would highly not recommend it. Some apps need a swap file. If you turn it off, worst case you may see unexpected problems or lock-ups in that App. And don't bother with 3rd party utility that speedboosts your windows by creating RAM disks or defrag your RAM etc. That cheap trick managed to trick alot of people with loading themselves with mal-wares, turning their pc into zombots and zombies, indirect consent to be monitored for web activities the list goes on.

It's just prefetch buffer to be turned off. This is because with the old spindle disk technology, fragmentation is serious speed bump where one large file is spread across the surface of the disc platter. It monitors the executables which are currently used to be placed together in a contiguous manner. Fragmentation is not a problem with SSD.

A good honest advise untainted, on SuperFetch.
http://www.windows7hacker.com/index.php/2009/12/why-you-should-not-disable-superfetch-in-windows-7/

Now, manufacturers will ask us to turn off superfetch is mainly to reduce wear & tear. We need to think carefully. If you have a disk that comes with 3 years warranty or Dell with 1-1 swap. Turn it on. Coz IF you turn superfetch off, your SSD will most probably fail by month 37th onwards. Key is always do your backup. Manufacturers they are cutting themselves loose of their warranty. When chips are design and manufactured - they go thru a real-life simulated stress test which is x times more than our usual usage and casual usage. Some even simulate real environment e.g. room temp, humidity, interference, typical house current flux etc. So they know how long the chips will last and 95% of the time they are right. They can't control how we tweak our SSD but they can influence our decision with ads, controlled 3rd party forums/blogs/tech-publishers etc.

Some companies like Dopod (accquired by HTC) played this trick with the 13th month syndrome, where the parts are most likely to breakdown after the time-frame. This forces people to buy more. I have sworn not to buy HTC even if its the last phone manufacturer in this world, as long as the team dopod is still there within HTC.

The only manufacturer in this world that I can honestly trust that won't sweep dirt under some-elses carpet is Intel. There are real facts and stories, some from personal experience. The Internet is now what it's used to be. Google manipulates what they think you should see - e.g. indirect Ads that benefits x number of companies as they pay big bucks over their campaign. This is a very complex algorithm combined with the content already existing on the cloud.

The whole idea of this forum is we should educate ourselves by helping each other, is "real" solution".

Finally, I agree with you, and good point on disabling auto defragmentation for the SSD. That is probably causing the exessive disk light blinking.

 

Just for the record, the IPS panel I just installed does not have any grainy coating at all. I had seen this mentioned elsewhere and was watching for it, but the coating seems no more smooth/grainy than my original matte LCD.