M6600 Owners Thread

Don't you have the BL keyboard ?

You stole the setup I wanted (((( grrrr now I have to go for:
Precision Mobile Workstation M6600 Laptop
English Windows 7 Professional
Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M processor 2.50 GHz
250 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
4 GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz (2 DIMMs)
Display: 17.3in HD+ (1600x900) LED-backlit LCD Panel
Optical Drive: 8X DVD+/-RW Tray Load Drive
Graphics: AMD FirePro M8900 Mobility Pro Graphics with 2GB GDDR5
English Windows 7 Professional SP1 (64 Bit)
Wireless: Intel Pro Wireless 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n) Half Mini Card
Camera : Integrated 2.1 Mega Pixel Camera with Microphone
Battery: Primary 9-cell 97W/HR

Guys, do you know if we can change the LCD panel easily ? (not sure about the HD+ cable and Full hd cable)
Might ask Dell to see what they can do as I don't want a HD+ screen

 

Sorry! I was literally camped on the Dell Outlet website most days. Decent systems do come up but you have to be patient - to get there ahead of the eBay resellers

 

I though I read this somewhere in this thread about being able to set any of the 3 hard drives as a primary when doing a fresh install.

If I had a mSATA 128GB SSD, 256GB SSD, and 750GB HDD, Can I choose any of the three to be my boot/primary drive?

 

Yep, you can. I have 4 hard drives in my M6600 (Intel 510 120gb, Intel 320 160gb(Optical Caddy), OCZ Nocti 30gb mSATA SSD(Linux), and the 750gb hard drive that shipped with the laptop) and have no problem selecting or switching which one to boot from via the BIOS.

 

Thanks for confirming this....I will be placing my order first thing Monday morning. I found a $100 off Dell coupon that is working and good until 5/2/12, and I have $250 in Dell gift cards to use.

Here is my configuration:

Intel® Core™ i7-2760QM
Genuine Windows® 7 Professional
8X DVD+/-RW tray Load
2.0GB, DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM
AMD® FirePro® M8900
17.3" UltraSharp™ FHD(1920x1080) PremierColor IPS RGB Anti-Glare LED-backlit Premium Panel
320GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
Intel® Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300
Dell Wireless® 375 Bluetooth Module
Light Sensitive Webcam and Noise Cancelling Digital Array Mic
FIPS Compliant Fingerprint Reader and Contactless Smartcard Reader

Parts for upgrading: (thanks to NotEnoughMinerals for the help)

Samsung 830 256GB SSD (BOOT DRIVE)
Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB SSD/HDD (STORAGE DRIVE)
128GB MyDigitalSSD 50mm Bullet Proof mSATA SSD (STORAGE DRIVE FOR DIGITAL FILING CABINET)
16GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600Mhz RAM

 

The extra $$$ on the XT will be useless if its used as a storage drive... A standard 750gb/1tb will be just as fast.

 

I agree but I already have the XT drive from a previous build. Thanks for looking out though.

 

Are you guys buying from dells normal site or outlet? Outlet right now has some really good deals even without coupons. Got two M6600's. One with a touch screen 3000M graphics for 1350 and another with FHD and a 4000M for 1517.

 

So your the one who took my 1517 price tag system. Pretty good deal considering no coupons.

 

I have not seen any with the IPS screen in the outlet so I must buy new.