New M6500 Discussion Thread

You are asking a guy that shoots with a Canon 1DsMarkIII 21 MP SLR with a suite of Canon "L" lenses that then runs unsharp mask in Photoshop among other post processing techniques as well as noise ninja software to eliminate every microscopic artifact from my imaging. Is the M6500 web cam fuzzy with noise? I'll put it to you this way. It's a toy gimmick but nice to have as a utility. It will never be used for any wedding photography :wink:

 

Thanks. One day ill try this - but as I said above Im not installing any utilities on right now untill I am 100% up and running. Gimme a few days!

 

Last post - sorry for so many.

My frustrations have subdued - many of which were Dell related and many of which were self caused by me.

I am starting to REALLY like this machine. I tried the encrypted drive system and the preboot password. Suffice to say, if you enable all of this security, nobody will see your p0rn . Seriously, after being prompted to enter a system bootup password and then a separate password to unlock the encrypted drives (both SSD drives can be linked to lock and unlock together, which is nice), I realize this think can be locked down quite tight. For now I set it back to unencrypted.

I learned today from researching that apparently you never need to defragment a SSD. I need to check to be sure Win7 is not doing this automatically by default.

 

Just a quick fyi. I made the choice of going back to the modded 195.81 nividia drivers instead of running Dell's newly available M6500 approved 188.43 drivers. No big difference in color or performance, but the 195.xx drivers allow me to apply negative digital vibrance. I only unsaturate the colors from 50% (neutral) to 40-42% when I run world of warcraft. This tames the pure reds and to a lessor extent the greens. As usual, not saying this would make sense for anyone else to do, but it works for me.

 

I'm still curious whether the Dell Control Point software has a setting for "native" gamut of the display, in addition to the NTSC, sRGB and adobeRGB settings. (If not, this is a big oversight in the design of the software.)

Can somebody check please?

Thanks,
Keith

 

I don't like much that crap Control Point software, I'm going to start from scratch and don't want it installed. It has always been a pain, problems and everything. So how I'm going to catch that sRGB mode with this wide gamut display anyway? I don't trust much Dell for fixing the issue, I don't want to wait 6 months for an update or maybe they just can't fix it after all, some wide gamut displays just can't "emulate" sRGB right, its screwed (I mean in an out of color managed software situation).
So I give up on that RGBLED screen, I'm going for the WLED.
I will post my test and calibration results as soon as I get it.

 

You may want to read this before Removing Dell ControlPoint:
Dell ControlPoint Connection Manager

 

You can go to the device manager and check the properties of monitor and Go to the details and look at your hardware lds

 

And How to set up Dell ContolPoint Security Manager:
Dell ContolPoint Security Manager

 

Argh, i have just noticed while checking something else that according to intel the I7 720 doesnt have VT-d support, the whole bloody point of me blowing more than I spent on my 1st car on a laptop was I wanted a top of the line VM monster.

Can anyone else confirm this before mine arrives, im not exactly sure how to test yet but am going to be damn unhappy to the point of sending it back if I5 laptops half the price have more functionality than mine.