New M6500 Discussion Thread

When Office 2010 x64 is incredibly stable and fast! You were right Adam

It is a long time (since Win95?) that MS did not surprise me like this...

 

Absolutely - my Blackberry has all that Outlook content synchronised anyway and pulls all my other email accounts into one place anyway.

 

Can't you assign that 'Precision On' to anything else custom or it's just a pure dedicated Microsoft button for Office ?
...my penny contribution till I get my hands on the beast.

 

The selling point is not so much the button (I think you can assign a hotkey instead) but the little low voltage sub processor, memory and tiny operating system that gives you email, contacts, calendar - and internet too without needing the laptop to boot into windows. This is brilliant - it gives you a 15 inch wide 9 pound smartphone. OK, that's a little unfair, you do get the big screen and keyboard, but it seems to be a nice solution looking for its own problem.

 

lol Good one. lol

 

I dont think it has the processor like the Latitude Z600 in fact I dont think it is the same setup at all considering you did not have to do anything on the LatitudeZ the OS was preinstalled on the mobile chipset.

Has anyone used it on the M6500 to be able to tell?

 

Yes, I think they answered a question that no one asked.

 

Well as I expected my purchasing person didn’t answer the email, so my order was canceled.
I resubmitted the order again, and have no ides if they will expedite it.
I want to make it very clear that Dell didn’t do anything wrong here, the ball was dropped on this end.
M

 

I received my M6500 today.
Here are the basic specs : i7-820QM, 4.0GB DDR3-1333, 250GB , RGBLED, nVidia Quadro FX 3800M, Dell 1510

I'm happy with it but as I have no time, I will give details later.

At the moment I have a problem. I added the new travelstar 7k500 and I'm using Win7Pro x64. I tried to install W7 but it did not work in AHCI mode. I had to go back in ATA mode and it worked.

Then, I activated AHCI again and I got a BSOD. I googled the problem, I followed MS instructions. After the first reboot in AHCI mode, W7 installed several drivers but during the second reboot I was blocked at windows loading screen. Basically it happened the same thing when I tried to install W7 with AHCI enabled, the screen freezes and nothing happened.

You could ask yourself why it matters because it works perfectly in ATA mode. The answer is simple : I planned to buy SSD in several months and you must be in AHCI to use trim under W7.

Any suggestions are welcome. I think it could be due to the fact that this specific HDD does not support AHCI.

 

when you go to install win 7, are you installing from the bootable disk?

Do you have a second HD in the system? Maybe try taking that out and try to install.

Several months ago I took a Dell M4300 that was set up to boot ATA and switch it to AHCI. Unfortunately, I forget what I did. It was a process I found on the web. I think it was something like this:

http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/936428.htm

Here is another one I found:

"You can install the Microsoft standard AHCI driver from within Vista
through Device Manager. In Device Manager select you IDE/Sata controller
and properties and selected update driver. The select browse my computer for
driver software. Select let me pick from list. In the screen un-tick the
box "show compatible hardware". Scroll down under the Manufacturer
column and select the Standard AHCI driver and select next. This should
the Microsoft AHCI driver. Reboot. Then go into the bios and change your
IDE configuration to AHCI. Once your reboot you can then install the
AHCI driver for your particular motherboard."

Hope it helps.