New M6500 Discussion Thread

Actually, what that means is that TRIM is sent to the device, which will be ignored for drives that don't support it.

It is not a test for TRIM, simply states that the OS will send TRIM commands to the HD.

Regards,
Pablo

 

Cool. Thanks for that clarification. Other folks told me I have a generation 2 SSD so I guess I am good.

 

Chatted online with Dell Pro Support and think we fixed it. I am now connecting at 144Mbps. The initial connect on boot is still slower than My M4300 with Intel 3945ABG.

In MS Config,
-Under Startup we disabled "Dell Wireless WLAN Card Wireless Network Tray App";
-Under Services, we disabled "Dell Wireless WLAN Card Wireless Network Tray App

In Control Point, Connection Manager,

Click Connections, then click Profiles, and then Change Settings at the bottom.

Under Change Settings, click Program Settings, Under Available technologies, I unchecked Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Mobile Broadband, and Dial Up (modem). Only had to do Wi-Fi, but I do not have Broadband or Dial up and windows can manage the Ethernet.

Since I unchecked all those, I unchecked Show Tray Icon, and Show All networks since Win 7 already shows all that.

Hope this helps someone else.

Mike

 

While I do not have that issue, thank you for posting a resolution. That is always an internet friendly thing to do to 'pay it forward'.

 

(sorry for my english and not to be able to relate as well as Adam)


I am trying to fix myself the computer... the technician (I will keep his name for the moment) just left after 4 hours (he never saw that system before and did not have the manual: it is me who helped him with the manual http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5707837&postcount=581 (thanks a lot worldwww3!) and prevented him from making more mistakes... crazy!)

The day began quite well with Dell. I received a box from UPS with... the palm rest! why?! because I told Dell that 2 items were missing: the Slim Power Supply and the Contacless smart card (not the palm rest!). First disappointment...
Just after, further good news. The motherboard and the graphic card were available and a technician was coming today.
He arrived at 4.30pm. The first thing he told me: better to replace the system than to fix it because "I think it’s a problem of the Bios".
I insisted to try to find a solution given the fact that to replace the system would take more weeks and I had waited enough... As he was here, better to try to see if it the reason of the problem.
He began the dismantling (not sure of himself but friendly).
I am an architect but I studied engineering too so I am a bit "psychopath" (perfectionist) and the guy was putting the parts/screws/etc everywhere on the table without being organised (he was discovering the system) while I was trying to convince myself: it is his job, he does that every day!
Result : I have 2 screws outside the computer and he did not find the missing holes!!! and did not want to try to fix it! He wanted to leave. I insisted to fix my “very expensive” system or at least to leave it as it was before. He declined and left...
Result : He left me with the computer in a worse condition than this morning (he damaged the Access Panel and the Hinge cover, he did not reinstall well the Right I/O Board and the WLAN card and surprisingly he forgot 2 screws on the table!!!). The only difficulty of his job is to take care of reinstalling ALL the numerous screws in the right order and in the right position!
Result : he changed the motherboard and the graphic card but the problem of the screen is still the same (problem to see the boot process and enter in the Bios because the screen turns off - but turns on once you log in)
Result: I have a spare FX 3800M, a spare Motherboard and a spare Palm rest. The originals (the items that I paid for System Board Dell 01JH1V) are in a box now and HIS items are in MY system. As he did not want to touch it again (and fix his mistakes) we spent 1 hour arguing! I was (inwardly) so upset! I hate the human stupidity...
Result: He left without his handbag pretending to go to his car to call his manager (as he had no more battery and he did not know the phone number to call from my line)... After 45 minutes, the London Police ringed at my door! I swear... Dell has taken me for a bloody idiot.


(melantye: sorry, after all that, I forgot to ask about the USB 3.0)

 

Oh my god.... I can't stand watching your covet in such a torn apart condition....

 

Hi Razibus,

I was at CES last month, and while at the booth set up by the USB working group, they mentioned the flexibility of the SuperSpeed USB (USB3), including the ability to use it as a display connection. Monitor makers would have to support a SuperSpeed USB input in their LCD panels (in addition to HDMI, Displayport, VGA, etc), but it is part of the design. I don't think it'll replace your DirectX gaming graphics, but for adding additional 2D displays, it should work well... much better then the current USB-to-VGA and USB-to-DVI today. Plus, I am sure they'll also create USB3-to-VGA and USB3-to-DVI adapters that are much better then today... for those monitors without a SuperSpeed USB input.

I believe USB Display output would use some CPU resources for this type of setup; much like current USB Speakers on USB2. If you have a set of USB speakers, you'll notice that USB Speakers bypass your sound-card drivers / hardware and use their own USB Audio driver.

 

I finally received my M6500 today. Since I will primarily be using it for image editing (digital photography and video) one of the first things I wanted to check was how well the display profiled.

First, I agree with the assessment of everyone else that the Control Point color controls are horrible. Therefore, I prevented the control point software from loading at startup by deselecting it in msconfig.

Then I performed an initial profile of the machine using the Xrite Colormunki (a spectrophotometer). I say "initial" because I didn't leave the screen on for very long before calibrating, and because now that I view the images on screen I'm wondering if I picked too bright of a screen setting. The "5-up" brightness position on my machine resulted in a luminance setting of 144. Since that was the closest I could get to one of the "preset" values in the Colormunki software, I went with that setting.

After generating the profile I compared it to the adobeRGB color space. In the color plot below, the outside lines are my display profile, and the inside lines are adobeRGB.



As you can see, the M6500 display profile generated by the Colormunki matches or exceeds the adobeRGB color space in all areas except the most saturated blues, and even then it is close enough to call it a match. For now I am very happy with the display. (Although it does look "different" from what I'm used to seeing on my Dell D820 )

Some of you might be asking why this is so much different than Bokeh's results. I'm not sure, but I would probably attribute it to the use of the Colormunki vs the Spyder3 calibrator. I went with the Colormunki because it is a spectrophotometer, which will usually produce more accurate results with a wide gamut display. The other variable is that I have the ATI graphics card, not NVIDIA.

So, the display "issues" with the M6500 seem manageable, to me at least.

 

Sorry to hear this awful story...

 

What happens if you leave Control Point 'on' and select AdobeRGB as suggested by Bokeh? I use ControlPoint for my WWAN so I can't turn it off. Can't my i1display2 calibrate anyway?