New M6500 Discussion Thread

awesome color profiles thanks

Edit: On dell control point, which color space are you using? aRGB, NTSC or sRGB? I'm assuming NTSC as aRGB gives all my pictures a terrible urine colored hue...

 

There is 30-35% of softness to work at, particularly at launch prices, but you need a big IT budget to get most of that off them. We're a University and Dell would love to have a bigger share of our IT budget, which helps. It's worth noting that the relative value (or price) Dell places on some of the components can be very different from the relative market value and it does seem to change over time - you can play tunes on this, which is why I think you could try working from a price and seeing what they suggest as savings from the fully loaded config. What do you think you ought to be paying? And what could you live without?

 

NTSC in control point....double checking now; YES it's NTSC

 

I'm not sure the M6500 is really 'portable' in the practical sense.

- 4.1Kg real weight
- Additional 550g per extra battery
- The 'slim' (and bearing in mind it's a 240W supply, really is 'slim' despite the still-housebrick-area) AC adapter plus my custom-made AC cord (short/lighter) comes to 950g.

If you're on battery power, for an up-to-5.5-hour non-GPU-intensive ekeing runtime on the machine + extra battery with all of the power-saving features kicked in while making light use of the 4 cores, that means an all-up weight of 4.65Kgs. If you're travelling with the AC adapter, that's at least 5.05Kgs. And if you want to hedge your bets and carry both a spare battery and the AC adapter as well, that's at least 5.5Kgs.

It's definitely better than the equivalent machine I had before the M6400 / M6500 - the chavtastic XPS M1730, which with the PSU would make me lean sideways while walking if I had it in a shoulder bag. But it's hardly something you can just toss in your bag and forget about.

If you want the 920xm then there are no lighter examples, but the max 820m HP Elitebooks are half a kilo lighter to start with - and if you're looking at simply updating your (I'm guessing Yonah or Merom?) machine for the present day (and there will definitely be a kick in the pants even with the same number of cores) while retaining portability then there are an increasing number of i7-620m machines floating about, which will be definitely portable.

Just my 2p.

 

its a 240W PSU for the i7 variants. Its heavy for a laptop but I don't think its all that heavy overall, only thing I wish were implemented is a better cable management system with the PSU, its just too much cable (10-12ft overall i think?) and takes forever to wrap up.

 

thanks again

 

I'm using it with a samsung panel and I have to say it looks alot better than before! thanks Guys!

 

I thought it was 210W - you're right: 19.5V @ 12.3A

 

Anyone know how to fix the wireless card when it will only connect at 54mps. Up until yesterday it was running at 245mps and I haven't changed anything on my router and now all of a sudden it will only connect at 54mps.

Any ideas?

 

might want to check to see if you went from N speeds to B/G speeds which are more than likely dependent on your router. If your router can do simultaneous bands then perhaps you went too far for the wireless N to be effective so you only pick up A/B/G now but if your router only does one band at a time, make sure no one changed the settings to run the router on the A/B/G 2.4ghz frequency (N runs at 5GHz and doesnt have a high range relative to a/b/g)