New M6500 Discussion Thread

Hi theZoid,

I here you on that... lol


The 64GB hard drive for your OS and Virtual Memory Paging file, Is a big one for me. And USB 3.0 sweet, these things is what caught my eye in the beginning, I didn’t know about the USB 3.0 ports but everything else. These are the first two videos I seen on the M6500

Source: YouTube video by Richard Thwaites, from the European Business Development Manager, for Dell Precision Workstations.​

Source: YouTube video by Autodesk Technical Evangelist Steven Roselle, reviews the World fastest mobile workstation and the revolution it brings to 3D modeling.​

Source: NIVIDA and the Dell Precision M6500​

I do not work for Lenovo, or Dell. I work for my Customers, just like most of you. I go the extra mile for my customers. My Customers Demand Excellence, and I Demand Excellence from my workstation. If I can’t use the M6500 in front of my customers what good is it?

And I don’t know what happen to the Display Panel in Richard Thwaites and Steven Roselle videos, but dell give us your customers the option of that Display or an LG, whatever but don’t give us some piece of crap. Everyone is into this system for $6000.00+ do you think we will mind spending an extra $200.00 $300.00 on a Display Panel come on, do not insult Us. And list the manufacture and part number of the Display Panels so we can make our own choose.

 

Can the 64GB mini SSD be added to any of the current M6500 or is that on a new motherboard?

Also, I thought I read on this forum that the USB will be an add on card. Does that require a new motherboard or will it work with the current systems.

Thus far, I think my M6500 Covet is great. Only issue I have is the Dell 1510 is not great, but they are replacing that for me (Intel 5300) and I do hear the "ghost" buzz or cracking from the speakers when the room is quiet and nothing is playing.

I am like most and want the latest and greatest the best I can get it, but understand once I buy a computer, the technology will be different tomorrow.

I do find it surprising that this new M6500 will change so soon with the USB 3.0 and wonder why they did not implement sooner or just wait another month to get these things out. But again, if they waited another month, I would probably have an M6400 and be sending that back.

I remember when I got my M4300. Around 30 days after I received it, they came out with the M4400.

Mike

 

As far a I saw when I opened the machine if you did not have the caddy you could insert the drive without it and an old credit card alongside to hold it quite firmly in place.

Not hugely recommended but it would probably work for the life of the pc.

On a side note I hope that the M6500 USB3 mainboard will use exactly the same chassis so that we can fork out $150 or so and do the upgrade ourselves.

 

I pulled out my second SSD (to use in another machine) and put in a 7200 RPM drive. Along with the caddy, is a connector that gets plugged in the the hard drive. So you would need both.

I am also hoping the change in the USB is changing a card on the system.

 

You will need the "interposer" as well, which converts the standard SATA connector to one that will connect to the M6500.

 

It seems you have the same problem than gradx : http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5660379#post5660379
When does this strange sound happen? How is that possible? (a frequence from the wifi card which leads to a sound response of the speaker? Drivers conflict?)

So what is the best brightness you got please?

 

I'm with you on the Mini ssd drive and the 3.0. I'll be canceling my order tomorrow and waiting for the changes to take effect on dell's site. This still is disapointing because now I will have to wait again once they finally change the specs. As if I haven't allready waited long enough.

I still like the Alienware specs but I personally (not conserned about what a client would think) do not like the chassie of the Alienware and since this purchase is going to be very long term I want something I love not like! I just wish they could put the Alienware specs and performance into the m6500 shell.

 

I totally agree with you.

Other links during the AU 2009:
http://www10.giscafe.com/video/display_media.php?category_id=10203&link_id_display=29907
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pd7_XV0RGU

 

"Best" depends on your viewing conditions. I profiled my monitor for a brightness of 140 nits, which is a compromise between the "optimum" range of 120-130 nits used for matching prints in a controlled viewing environment (darker room), and the desire to have a slightly brighter screen for "everyday" viewing conditions.

I would get a more "accurate" profile for matching prints if I used a lower brightness setting, but decided to go with the slightly higher setting as a compromise.

I found that on my machine, a brightness setting of 6-up on the button controls was the equivalent of 144 nits, equal to 40% brightness in the advanced power controls. Setting the brightness to 39% in the advanced controls gave me exactly 140 nits, which I selected as the "target" brightness in the calibration software. I suspect, based on Bokeh's earlier results, that I would get an even better profile if I lowered the brightness to around 33%; however, in brighter lighting conditions, this wouldn't allow me to determine shadow detail. The brightness setting most appropriate for you will depend on your normal viewing conditions.

Caveat: None of this will really make sense unless you understand how to use an external calibrator to profile the color response of your LCD.

An excellent reference for checking the calibration of your monitor can be found here: http://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS/MONCAL/CALIBRATE.HTM

Using that reference to gauge my calibration results, they're pretty darn good. I can distinguish all the highlight gradients, to include the difference between 255, 254 and 253 levels. This is very impressive for a laptop LCD. My results aren't quite as good in the shadows, but I can still distinguish the difference between 11 and 9, and 9 and 0, and in a dark room I can distinguish the difference between all the levels except 5 and zero. These are OUTSTANDING results for a laptop LCD.

It would be nice to have an IPS variant display, or an OLED, but until that type of display is available on a laptop I'm convinced this is the best option on the market (at this time).

 

HI YBcold,

I would!!


" I want something I love not like! " I agree with you on that