New M6500 Discussion Thread

Do you guys know the meaning of the battery status indicator on the M6500 if it is flashing blue or if it is solid blue (charging I presume?) It seems different from the battery status indicator on my Inspiron 9400. I tried to Google and check in the manuals to no avail. Thanks! ^_^

 

It flashes shortly while it is plugged in when the battery is full.
It is constantly on while it is charging.

 

Thanks SvenC but it has stopped flashing now (guess it has finished charging). When I first plugged it in, it was solid blue and then after 15 minutes, it started flashing blue for about 30 minutes or so and now it is completely gone. I had half-battery life left. What's with this cryptic lighting system and nothing about it in the manual? *LOL*

 

I have posted a couple of new profiles for Samsung/Nvidia. Each require you to change the extension to icc. The file name shows what values I ended up with. What I was trying to do was get the best image from my screen. I noticed at my initial target profile the screen was a bit less consistent side to side and top to bottom. I wanted to test a Native White Point calibration and did so but in the end it exhibited a yellowish cast and 4900K for temp and needed brightness of 189 to calibrate. Next was split the difference and get a better color temp but preserve the very good delta of the native white point. So I used 6000k as white point which gave me a close to target 106 for brightness and both of these are 2.2 gamma with display set to 60% brighntess on ac.

So regarding Delta....the native white point give max IQ with average of .68 and some blues at 2.25+. The 6000K white point that I prefer gives a delta average of about .9.7 with some blues at close to 2.98. I prefer the 6000K profile as it gives a more neutral grey but still a good match to my Xrite color checker and screen versions of same. It also offers a more consistent edge to edge screen view.

Hope these are useful to anyone.

*UPDATE... I added one more profile with a machine brightness at 26%. This also was at Native 4900K but gamma 2.2 and calibrated to 107 brightness. A very good delta but again a yellowish cast so will be using my 6000K profile.

John

 

I use profile chooser to avoid having to deal with the whole color managed vs. non color managed software issue. Using profile chooser, the entire Windows environment is set to the one created by the spyder.

I am fairly sure that the Samsung profile I made will not look right on the LG panel that TheZoid has.

I will be in heading down to TheZoid's stomping ground next week and am going to try and catch up with him so that I can see the LG panel in person. Will also be profiling it with my Spyder 3 Elite.

 

Glad to know I was not the only one getting 3 hours. The Anandtech review had me worried. I wonder if they lost 30 minutes to not tweaking unneeded services, auto scheduled programs, and auto startups.

 

Yeah virgin machine with no tweaks. Think I just need to get used to it and learn the ins and outs of a laptop.. having not upgraded my cpu since a qx6700 a few years back. Things are nuts now! 8 cores showing up and SSD tech.. im getting a bit lost.

Newest issue is finding way to hide on screen display of volume change and Fn keys.

 

Hi Bokeh,


Take some Pictures of theZoid's Display Panel, before and after Calibration.
And take some note's of his settings if you think of it.


Thank You,

 

If you could upload the profile when you're finished calibrating that would be awesome I have the LG screen also

 

You're the man ! Just ring me up...not far from Convention Center area.