New M6500 Discussion Thread

No clue. I was just talking about the "additional SSD mini-card (Coming Soon!)" that I expect to be a Mini PCI card. The card you linked looks to have the type of performance (200mb/s reads and 100mb/s writes) that would be a worthwhile boot drive.

 

Hi Bokeh,

I think it will be the Samsung mini-PCIe SSD
Originally ygohome came up with the link post#1773

I think it would be a worthwhile boot drive also.

 

Forgive me if it has been linked to here before, but does the performance issue manifest itself in specific drives from specific manufacturers? Or does the actual total size of the drive's allocated space play a role in I/O speeds?

Guess I'm trying to ascertain whether or not the miniPCI drive will be affected by the same issues observed with the 64GB SSD that's shipped with the 6500 up to this point since it's obviously a different device altogether, just the size of the storage being the same.

 

I don't notice much of a difference in boot time with my Crucial 128GB SSD but certain applications that read many files (e.g. Visual Studio) load large projects much faster than any 7200rpm drive I've ever used.

 

The newest version of Spyder 3 software always reloads its for me.
If not all you have to do is right click reload your profile.

I have 4 monitor profiles:
Samsung RGB (onboard)
Dual U2410 profile
2408WFP

Each time I come out of standby it loses profile then data color finds it and reloads it.

 

Dell needs to clarify all of this, because they are going to advertise RAID5 and 3 drive options. All of the mini-pcie 64GB drives are slow as dirt.

I cannot get over 30MB read write on even the newest ones.
So I hope no one gets their hopes up for this.

As we talked about a few pages back, even with the fastest SSDs installed using Win7 don't expect the machine to be super fast booting up and shutting down.

 

I too have that same drive in my other laptop and it performs very well. I was getting 95MB/s seq read/writes and that wasn't even on the fastest area of the disk. Very happy with it. For my external drives I'm going to invest in a few WD Caviar Black 7200 2tb 3.5" in a RAID 0. Those have 4 platters with 500GB per platter I believe. In theory they should be plenty fast.

I'm loving my new m6500 that arrived yesterday. I've got a long ways to go before I get all of my dev tools and stuff installed on it. Probably going to try doing a marathon install this Saturday so I'll be free by Valentine's day.
ha.

At the moment I'm getting the annoying "limited or no connectivity" when trying to connect using the Intell 5300 to my wireless linksys G router. I'm hopeing I'll just need to fiddle with it, unplug the modem and router... reboot, etc. I can connect with no problem to my other access points (a verizon mifi, a sprint mifi and also works great with using wmwifiRouter on my wm6phone).

I'd get the same thing on my other laptop after installing a new windows SP. In that case just unplugging the modem and router corrected it. we'll see

*question... do you guys use the Control Point Communication Manager? I was thinking about disabling or uninstalling it. I didn't want to have to learn a new communication manager since the standard windows stuff always worked fine for me in the past and it was easy.

Regarding the screen... I have not checked to see what the part/id number is. I've got the RGBLED. It is just a little red where it should be white, to my eyes anyway. I'm not a professional photographer, etc so that is probably the last thing I'll look into adjusting after I get all of my other apps and tools installed. The screen sure is beautiful though. very nice... just have some minor tweaking to do so it looks perfect to my eyes.

Thanks,

Ben

 

I did not disable the control point connection manager module, but went into the settings so it does not manage anything (except the settings for what the wireless switch controls)?

Here is what I did:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5827939&postcount=1503

 

I've been running off a fresh OS install without Control Point and haven't had an issue for the last 1.5 months.

 

without the control point, can you control what the wireless switch controls?