New M6500 Discussion Thread

I'm also a university customer and ordered essentially the same config (except covet, 16 GB 1333 and 2x512 GB drives). Order went out on 1/5 and still hasn't arrived (maybe today!?). Its annoying that I can't obsessively check for updates on the status of my laptop every five minutes since all interactions with Dell are filtered through a middle man at the school.

Can't wait to start some projects on it. I've never played with CUDA before.

 

I am yet another University customer and am in exactly the same situation regarding indirect contact with Dell. I initiated the order on 4th December. It finally went out to Dell on 15th December. After much jumping up and down, ranting and shouting it should arrive tomorrow. Then the IT department will spend several days screwin^H^H^H^H^H^H^H meticulously configuring it before I finally get it in my hands, probably next week now. And then of course to cap it all I miss out on USB 3 (the other new upgrades I'm not so bothered about). Oh well, to put it in perspective I have worse things to worry about given the state of University finances just now, but I haven't been able to see most parts of my 5 year old Inspiron 9200's screen for years now (because of ever widening multi-coloured stripes) and have to remote desktop into it, which is not great given it's a laptop, so a replacement is long overdue.

 

ROTFL Yeah I thought of that too. Yes, its the RBGLED.

ProteinSimulator & penguintree, sorry to hear your U connection hasn't helped - I'm not sure it helped me either, I just lucked out. Today is my first real work day with it, I'm simultaneously reinstalling XP on the old 9300 for my wife (work/play) and kid (play). Very excited to see how quickly my image processing routines run!!

penguintree you have a 9200? Is that a 17"? The 9300 is exactly the same size as the M6500, just a lot slower and older. I've had it since Jan '06. You will like the replacement, have no doubt.

 

Yup, 9200 was 17". I think the 9300 replaced it in early '05 just after my 9200 was delivered and rectified most of its deficiencies; in exactly the same way the Precision 6500 upgrade came just as my 6500 was shipping, but that's the way with computers... if you wait for a particular tech improvement, you may as well wait forever. Everything's obsolete pretty much straightaway; it's the early adopter's curse.

Having said everything's obsolete immediately, I really hope I will like the 6500. It probably has to last me 5 years like the last one! I'm assuming I'll be able to get USB 3.0 on a PCI Express Mini card (I think there's a Commell one already) or an ExpressCard 54 (quite a few of these too already and they're already below $50) ... should the need for USB 3.0 arise. OK, it's not ideal, but I need the laptop now, so I'm not going to send it back and hold out for the new spec. No doubt I'll have USB 3.0 devices one day, or it may all be 60 GHz Wireless HD or WiGig by then - who knows - I'll have to cope.

 

Very interesting. I had my first conference call with Dell on Jan 28th at 5pm EST and was told emphatically that no other panels other than the Samsung were being used for the RGBLED M6500 systems. They did hint that other panels would be coming in the future, but they stood by Samsung being the only one.

Looking at the timing of your order, it makes me suspect of the information I was given by the Dell team. If you indeed received an M6500 with an LG display on Feb 4th, it would have be a tight window for testing, then shipping from Malaysia to Nashville, then from Nashville to you between Jan 28th and Feb 4th.

Not trying to be disrespectful to you here, but this is only your second post, so I can't fully accept that you did receive an M6500 with an LG panel without something to back up your statements.

 

Just found out from our middle-person that delivery date has been moved to 2/26 ... So anyone who is reading this that thinks university customers are getting special treatment can rest assured we are not.

I suppose I will continue to covet the laptops of other users on this thread.

 

OK, no offense taken.

I am not trying to stir anything up, I just though it was interesting that I don't have the Samsung Hardware ID that everyone else seems to have. I will retract that it means I have an LG monitor, because honestly I don't know that it means that - I don't know what it means. I did look into PC Wizard to see what other information it provided, and the only two tidbits were these:

Manufacturer : DR740€171WU5
Product ID : LGD0241

The only proof I can offer is a screenshot, so I will attach that...

 

I have with PC Wizard in French:

> Affichage actuel : 1920x1200 pixels à 60 Hz en couleurs vraies (32 bits)
> Support Tactile : Non
> Nombre de moniteur : 1
> Type de moniteur : J501T€170CT
> Carte graphique : NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
> nVidia CUDA : Non
> OpenCL : Supporté (Non installé)
> OpenGL : Oui
> GDI Plus : Oui
> Direct2D : Oui

Could someone explain me why for "nVidia CUDA", I have "No"?

Thanks.

 

Perhaps driver version or nvidia parameters?

 

I just received mine today ordered from the US.
The RGB LCD is the Samsung model.

The control point settings for AdobeRGB color space is horrible.
As mentioned it looks like the NTSC is native.

I also noticed the speaker popping noise randomly.

Also why is there no option to disable hyper threading?
There is absolutely no need to split the 4 cores into 8 for 90% of the applications.