Precision M4400 Owner's Lounge

Anyone notice that the A12 BIOS came out on the 19th?

[EDIT] looks like everyone already found it; I searched the thread for "a12" and no results came up.

Anyway --

T9400, Quadro 770M, 4GB, WUXGA 2CCFL, No OC'ing, Defaults in both 3DMarks, Vista 64 Business

3DMark Vantage - P1824 (GPU - 1428, CPU - 10808)
3DMark06 - 4812 (SM2.0 - 1941, HDR/SM3 - 1809, CPU - 2264)

3DMark06 seems kind of low..?

 

Am thinking about buying Precsion M4400 from outlet with RGBLED screen for the wider color display. But, I have fairly poor vision and am concerned with the high resonlution of this model for my eyes. On DPI claculator, it gave me 147 DPI for the RGBLED screen which I would probably have to use for readability.

1. Could someone upload a screenshot of this thread in browser with this DPI setting of 147 for me to get an idea of what it would look like?

2. Also, what type of battery life do you have with this screen, 9 cell battery and the FX770 card?

Thanks for your help on this.

Gary

 

@huntnyc: here you go:


3hours+ internet surfing on 9cell, lowest brightness.

 

Thanks a dn that helps me a lot. I will give this some more thought. Satisfied with my Sony FW except for a terrible battery drain problem that causes me to lose quite a bit of life when laptop is turned off for just a few hours and then started on battery but I will test again first to see how bad this problem really is for me. Thanks again.

Gary

 

Got two PNGs for you of the 1920x1200 WUXGA+ panel set to 144dpi (couldn't set 147dpi in Vista .. should give you a fairly good idea though)

One of the thread :
http://krhainos.tk/144dpi1.png

One of the desktop :
http://krhainos.tk/144dpi2.png
And it should be noted, some UI elements scale nicely (taskbar, Start menu, desktop icons), and some don't scale well (tray icons, Firefox UI), and some don't scale at all (Sidebar)

 

how is it? I'm thinking of buying that one.
seems like different colors have different prices!
could it accomodate the M4400 well AND its big brick? lol

 

No, there are different ways of implementing led backlighting. On laptops it's not uncommon to use a row of leds on the top or bottom of the screen (like ccfl), putting the leds directly behind the screen would make the screen thicker and/or add more cost.

Sony OLEDS (organic LEDs) promise to fix this as each pixel is it's own light. They are still a little ways away but they will probably revolutionize computer and tv screen technology when released.

 

If you are going to upscale to that size, make sure you are running vista or better (win7) because XP will more than likely crop some of it's dialog boxes and you won't be able to read part of the text that goes off to the right of the dialog box (including buttons!)

Another option is to use the 1400x900 LED display. The text is clear and clean at the regular scale. I am using that now and am happy with it. If it's good enough for the Macbook pro, it's good enough for me.

The higher rez RGB LEDs are especially cool for people who need really high quality precision in colors and those who like to have several windows opened on screen at once side by side.

My advice to you is ; Let the need dictate the choice.

Cheers!

 

Its a refresh of the bag i use for my M4400. you have anough space for the notebook, the brick, a paper-notebook and some pencils. its okay. and nice to wear on medium distances because of the wide cord

 

Does the M4400 support every P, T, and Q processor? I'm currently using a P8400, but am curious as to whether I could drop in a Q9100. I know the QX9300 is supported, but even ES models go for nearly $700 on eBay, whereas Q9100s (and T9800s) go for half that.