M6600 Owners Thread

To anyone who has tried the M6600 touch screen with Windows 8 — How easy is it to activate the "swipe from the side" actions? I.e. swiping in from the right side to expose the charms bar, swiping in from the top/bottom for the app bar, or swiping in from the left to switch apps. I remember Microsoft making a deal about first-pixel sensitivity for these features, and I was also wondering if the screen bezel gets in the way.

 

I've got Win8 CP installed but no Touchscreen on this unit sadly... Hopefulyl someone will install it that has the touchscreen and answer this as it is a very good question!

hint hint sarge

(you don't need to affect your existing boot or disks if you create a .vhd, use diskpart to mount as a disk during setup and choose to install to it. That is what I have done for now, its better than a VM because it can then use the native hardware instead of emulated hardware - so it would be able to see the touchscreen.

It is basically the same performance as a standard install but you can boot back into Win7 at any point and simply delete the .vhd file to remove it.

If you want a full guide on how to do this just let me know/.

cheers

 

The level of sensitivity is determined by the stylus. It also looks like all of them are 256 levels of pressure.

Check out the N-Trig Duosense Digitial Pencil - http://www.n-trig.com/Data/Uploads/Misc/DigitalPencil_final version.pdf

Also looks like it supports either 6 or 10 finger multi-touch.

 

anyone got any vouchers for 10%, 20% or.... 30% off (heh ) that work with Dell UK for the M6600 - I'm ordering another and spending money is bad

If you do but don't want to post them here, or you have a nice account manager that will give good discount - PM me

cheers

 

I wasnt implying the dell touch is crap cuz ive never used it

I was saying that my wacom is not nearly as precise as I expected because of interference causing cursor wobble

 

So Bokeh and any others with touch panel can you check for cursor wobble with the stylus on the scroll bar or even holding still in the center and see if what sargent experienced in cursor jitter is prevalent

Also does anyone know how the stylus communicates with the comp cuz if its rf then better grounding or shielding interference could help as in cintiqs case also disabling the default windows touch interface in component services could fix it

 

I didn't think you were implying that. I was just saying that it is actually a nice digitizer by saying it is not crap

Gotta work on my word choices.

 

I am trying to gather up a pair of Intel 520 SSD drives for my Windows 8 testing. The new version of the Intel Rapid Storage Technology software and drivers supposedly pass TRIM commands to drives in RAID0. I want to see what 1100Mbs reads are like

 

With the 128GB msata u will lose alot of space to swap. Assuming the work you do will need alot of RAM, soon or now. E.g. 16GB x 2 = 32GB++ of swap space. Most of these graphic programs rely on swap space if RAM is used up.

128gb - 32gb = 96GB for OS / programs. Not much room to grow. The msata is only good as a huge swap space as a 2nd SSD or be only for an Ultrabook.

 

Do share. Have to reduce 10-30% for electronic efficiency reduction. 900mbps would be good.

More important is the iops and the 4k random read/writes.

Good idea, maybe i will go shop around for a 128gb msata. been thinking of installing a Linux boot separately without messing with my work partition.

Does the 256gb fit the m6600 msata slot? and it's a Gen-3 sata 6gb/s
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/01/samsungs-msata-pm830-is-eight-grams-of-pure-ssd/