New M6500 Discussion Thread

I agree with most of what your saying. The display may have an issue or two, but many of those issues are coming down to personal preference or what our outside reference is. The RGBLED on the M6500 is still the best I have seen on a notebook. Like you said, many people have monitors that they "trust" and the notebook display is less important.

On the other hand I have been on multi-day on-location shoots where you have to travel as light as you can because your taking public transportation between 2 or 3 cities. Its nice to have a good display on your laptop so that the rough edits that you send into the creative director and graphic designer look as good as they can.

 

Mine was ordered on the 30th...I'm agonizing right there with you....

 

Correct me if I am wrong but it sounds like your display is calibrating within an acceptable range based on your Spyder3 profile and is more than capable of showing projects more accurately than other onboard displays?

From what I read your only problem is the software level adjustment and Dell built in icc color profiles for the monitor?

 

It’s nice to have a good display on your laptop so when your customers are setting right next to you;
your work gives the impression of being excellent. That includes your Notebooks Display,
the Customers perception of color is everything it will make you or brake you.
For that job and the next and never mind references.

There is another way of looking at this:

Would Dell prefer my customers to say, my god what wrong with your Display?
Or WOW that’s a beautiful computer and the display quality is excellent,
what’s the name of your computer I have to get one.

Listen to these two videos:

And listen to what they are saying, and look at that Display.

This M6500 None-Covet uses LEDs Light-Emitting Diode (LED), For backlighting the Display.
And this Mobile Masterpiece: The Dell Precision M6500 is what I signed on for,
Not 2-CCFLs Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps (CCFL) for backlighting the Display.

A Must see Video on the M6400 with the same problem but solved.


Strange thing today no one is talking about the M6500 Display Panel it's the same Display Panel for $265.00 USA that's in the M6500 and I can't find a PDF file on the Display Panels specks the only thing I can get is that this series of display panels are over 5 years old. and some information on dell's TrueLife Technology and more Detailed Explanation of the Technology. this may help PixelBright LCDs I will keep digging

And Bokeh,

When you had the Display Panel out of the Notebook where there two wires or one,
coming off of the Display Panel?

 

Do you have Information on this?

 

Does anyone know which WiFi cards on offer with the M6500 are fully compatible with Ubuntu..? (Dell 1397, Dell 1510, Intel 5300)

 

Dunno about the Dell cards but the Intel 5300 worked 100% out the box with ubuntu 9.10 and mint

 

Intel 5300 is working good under linux but dell wireless cards are not well supported under Linux like you can see here : http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/PCI
I does not mean that you can't make it work but it won't be that good.

I do not understand the problem clearly too. If it's a software issue, why not try under linux?

 

Hi all,

My first post here. I have been reading this thread for a couple of weeks and found it extremely useful, in particular learning about monitor calibration etc from our resident Gurus, so thanks for that.

Although most of the discussions here have been graphics or visual related I am trying to find out about some settings to do with using the M6500 for audio production, in particular using it with Steinberg Cubase. I have recently received my M6500 and for the most part all is working fine. But when running Cubase I am getting some pops and crackles when using more that a couple of tracks and plugins. After having tried quite a few optimisation tips and tricks without success I found some info on Steinberg's website stating that there is a known issue with some pc's when using Cubase with quad cores, including the new i7 processors and it recommends disabling Hyperthreading in the BIOS until they resolve the issue in a a future update.

My problem is I cannot seem to find any setting for Hyperthreading in the BIOS, or is it there but just well hidden. If not, perhaps I will call Dell re this and see if they can add the option to disable Hyperthreading in the next BIOS udpate.

If there's anyone else here using the M6500 for music recording etc, I would love to hear about your experiences and any tips you may have for running this M6500 for audio production. Thanks.

My M6500 Covet specs;

i7-820 Core, 4GB 1333MHz, 2x250GB 7200rpm HD, nvidia Quadro FX3800 Windows 7 Pro 64bit, (At the moment though I am having to use a second temporary dual boot partition of Win7 32bit while waiting for 64bit drivers to be released for use with Sonic-Core XITE-1 DSP Audio System.

Thanks again

t_t

 

I've got a separate intel 5300 dell sent me for the sole purpose of putting in myself for Linux....intel is a great linux partner...nvidia is good too.

EDIT: I came unglued with Dell when they told me they had to switch my intel 5300 with the Dell unit....told them I ordered my 5300 for linux first, and the rest of the computer was built around THAT haha.