New M6500 Discussion Thread

Thanks for the feedback. For photo work primarily, the m7740 seems like the right choice. And the saving can go toward a 3800 for the desktop.

As for driver support, how has Dell been in releasing timely drivers for ATI in the past? I could not found drivers for the m7740 at ATI.

Tony

 

And the pain of waiting begins again!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

Has anyone waiting longer than me? I started on Dec 30 and still don't have it. I did cancel and reorder though. I'm looking at 4/7/10 or earlier I hope.

 

Does anyone know if Dell is planning to equip the M6500 series with IPS screens and a FirePro M7820? HP 8740w is already out! C'mon Dell, move your lazy bones!

 

Has anyone even received a 8740w yet? Hope Dell steps up here, I mean they did share the last generation panels with HP...

 

As you discovered, ATI drivers for mobile products are only released through the system vendors. Dell released an updated driver (the first) for the ATI card a little over a week ago, and IIRC it seemed to be based on ATI's driver work dated November 2009; so if that's right, that's not ever so timely, but I guess there's work and testing to do before passing it on. It has incidentally fixed a couple issues significant to this machine.

 

From the guys that have USB 3.0, can you confirm that USB 2.0 devices can be used from the USB 3.0 ports?

 

Ask that question in a week from now in their owners lounge

 

Adobe and NVIDIA are marketing partners.

The press release is about CUDA in Premier Pro. As I mentioned in my previous post, video encoding is much more mature with NVIDIA based products at this time, and I agree with you, if your primary emphasis is video, then NVIDIA is the safer short term bet.

ATI, Apple and Intel are all pushing the openCL initiative. To quote the article on the Mercury Playback Engine: "Thus, it isn't surprising to see Adobe going to CUDA first. The plan is probably equal to all plans that we heard so far: go to CUDA in order to completely unlock the GPU potential and only then port to OpenCL, as Apple's and AMD's OpenCL toolkits mature, sometime in 2011." (By the way, the article specifically about the Mercury Playback Engine mentions CUDA six times, and OpenCL six times.)

NVIDIA is much better at advertising than ATI, and is leveraging their relationship with Adobe for all its worth. OpenCL will mature, and when it does, we'll see how long NVIDIA sticks with CUDA.

Keith

 

I'm pretty close. I ordered early January and then cancelled when the upgrade news came out. Finally waiting on my deliverly date of 4/11