M6600 Owners Thread

It went to Dell Business Client Failure Analysis , Advanced Quality Engineering in Austin.
I think they should be looking into this. .I don’t know why you are saying it’s a lot of trouble for them. He said it shouldn’t be doing that.

 

I didn't mean that I disagreed with what they were doing. Just a little in awe of how much help you were getting. Very cool.

 

I will very appreciate, when you will tell them about issues with AUO too (at least about possibly too low PWM frequency). They're not so obvious like with LG, but exist...

 

Sure, why don't you write up a paragraph or so describing the AUO problem, and I'll send it to him

 

thank you, this is exactly what I have written earlier on this forum: with brightness set to lower value than max. you can observe even with cheap digital camera moving strips (sometimes very fast), color of strips depends on brigthness level (they can be even almost black). It's not very good visible with naked eye, but still very annoyed (picture seems to be unstable).

This is not frequency setting (I'm using 60 Hz, not 40 Hz), this is rather not Intel/Nvidia/Optimus drivers settings, I suspect, that Dell probably is using wrong PWM parameters (too low frequency, which could be rather fixed by BIOS update).

I attach some picture of IE (window should be white, but it isn't), it's the same effect like showed on the video Dell U2412M LED Backlight flickering - YouTube.

Another issue is connected with anti-glare surface - maybe Dell can at least provide list of screens, which can be used with M6600 and where this surface is more matt (AUO v5 is for me partially glossy)

If you need more info/photos/videos/etc., please let me know - I'm very interested in making picture in M6600 like in some other used by me devices (they're better in this moment and M6600 is away). To clarify: such strips are not observed on other LCDs with LEDs.

 

The HP 8760w costs 30-40 % more with the similar specs, and does not have the accidental protection service. Worst of all HP don't give good discounts and the selling of their workstation class machine is handled by local distributors that don't understand the product.

 

Can anyone help me with a few part numbers?

Since my screen died a few days ago, with my repair request I want to get the part numbers of what I want/need for repair.

The things I need are:
1. Screen assembly kit (everything)
2. AUO anti-glare 1920x1080 screen
3. Palm rest w/ the hole for Swipe fingerprint reader.

Thanks in advance.

 

2. H8D3K, please note, that this is anti-glare screen, not full matt

 

And Dell sales reps do?

My buying experience with HP has to the order of magnitudes better than buying direct with Dell. I spec a machine, I send it to the HP rep, he quotes, he delivers. I spec a machine with Dell, I send it to the Dell rep, he sends back along something different, I make corrections, he delivers something different in a different way or is a DOA / FOA / refurb or open-box, then it takes me weeks to get the machine I actually ordered.

It's true I got a much better deal on e.g. the M6500's than I did on the 8740w's - a ~$10K web spec for ~$7K. Comparatively speaking I get trivial discounts over list going through HP dealers. However I'd gladly trade that money for the months I wasted with the Dells.

Anyhoo, could I persuade someone to post in my battery runtime thread please. I really do not want to buy an M6600, but given my requirements it seems on paper like one of only two - both Dell - options, the other being the XPS17.

While the Precision notebooks have given me a mildly hellish buying experience - if a solid run once I get what I actually ordered in the first place, the XPS's have been a grand tour around the 7 circles of hell with not only buying issues but just total crud products on a par with Apple. So given those two evils, I'm leaning more towards the M6600 but I do need to be confident that it has the runtime I need.

 

With a 50% brightness and optimus with Quadro 4000m, SSD, i7-2860QM, 8GB DDR3, the battery will run approx 3-4 hours.

This is with standard ms office apps.