New M6500 Discussion Thread

I hear ya, it is very frustrating. Most of us have gone through the same delays. Dell is just a very popular brand and this is an especially popular machine.

But if they don't have the parts then there isn't a whole lot they can do about it except to delay it until they get the parts. I am pretty sure they are not purposely delaying the builds to tick off customers.

They should give more realistic delivery times though but I think the short supply of screens, 1600MHz RAM, etc caught them off guard. Their estimates are based on a standard turn around time assuming no shortage of parts... then as the date gets close to the estimated delivery date they extend/delay it... over and over and over again. Basically, they should give more realistic estimate to manage the customers expectations. Either way though you'd have to wait because of the part shortage.

 

I just don't understand why Dell doesn't at least use 2 manufactures if one can't supply the quantity needed. Especially when the LG panel is better than than the Samsung. I say that being under the impression that they stopped useing the LG panel per Havok.

As for dell being popular that is true, but I am slowly starting to lose faith.

I hope dell shows me that they are still the best out there!

 

i just got of the phone with our account manager. And the screens of the M6500 (the 2 1920x1200 screens) are still not deliverable and she couldn't give me any date when that would be possible again.
the edgeToEdge can be delivered but has a price tag that isn't what we want. And also the lower res screen is fine but thats also not what we want

We don't really care about white or rgb leds but that doesnt matter anyway because both are not in stock.

And i dont agree with the above statement that it isnt dells fault. Its the way dell works. They should just have something in stock so that they can at least deliver.. They really seem to only ask for supply if the order comes in yes and if then the supplier cant deliver then thats a problem

I get that dell does this on the cheap (consumer) stuff but this is a big problem now for the business customers.. Because they just cant deliver it. So we are now looking at other solutions. And i cant believe that we are the only onces so this has to affect dell.
They just should have more in stock for the high end stuff, the prices are already higher so that shouldnt be to much of a problem.

And dont tell me that it caught them off guard.. come on. 2.5 years ago i ordered my Vostro that i use now. And they had exactly the same problem that also took ages to arrive. So its not the first time that this happens. Dell should just be prepared for this.

 

Are you sure of that? I ordered mine in january, waited 5 weeks and received it... 2 days after the original predicted date!

I received mine last week with the LG screen.

 

congratulations, thats awesome I still haven't checked to see if I have the LG or the SAMSUNG... but it looks good whatever it is

 

Can someone upload the 3800M VBIOS here? I need one to do some test please. Thanks a lot~~~~

 

Hate to say it penguintree but I'm in the same boat. The first time I fired up some image processing routines in MATLAB I was surprised they were... about the same speed as before!

The one way I know of to optimize the CPU usage is to install Linux. I do pre/post processing for CFDRC and/or ANSYS/CFX on my laptop and send the jobs to run on an older Opteron machine running RedHat x64. Its runtimes smoke newer, faster Intel hardware running various versions of Windows. The thing I understand the least is if you issue a job you'd think it would get 100% CPU utilization, but time and time again I see 25%, 50% utilization under Windows. No idea what is wrong.

Certainly I can throw a lot at this machine and it always responds quickly, unlike the old i9300 with one core. But long-running jobs are still problematic.

 

As I am also dealing with CFD and Matlab from time to time, I would guess that probably Matlab is not optimized for parallel processing.

 

SO what is the best alternate right now?

And please don't say the Lenovo or HP!

 

Which is disappointing... I'm using the latest (2009b) code. You'd think it would be optimised for multi-core by now. I've been using Matlab since the late 1980's and have always been impressed in the past by the optimisation of its central matrix routines; whenever I tried years ago I could never better its execution speed with compiler or even assembler code for number crunching; I just took it for granted it would take every advantage of modern CPU capabilities.