Precision M4500 Owner's Lounge

I have read through the last 30 pages of posts and I can see there have been some power management issues with monitors attached.

I have a 30" monitor attached through a docking station and the M4500 has a nasty habit of going to some state that turns the monitor off and I cannot get it back.

This is with the laptop lid closed.

I think I have all the setting correct so that nothing powers off, except the display. So I wonder if the display just does not come back for some reason... Laptop is not asleep as the power light is not oscillating, and I see disk activity. But I does not come back when I move mouse or type.

However, I do see that my phone connected by usb goes power off.

Weird.

Answer, maybe, have the lid close on power "do nothing".

 

Hey Guys

I have a M4400 but just with a dual-core (T9600)/(Q770).
So i want ask if somebody can say something over the gaming-performance from the new M4500?

I know in the first way its a CAD Laptop. But we all wanna play a little bit
Is there a difference between the Q880 and the Q1800M?=

Whats about e.g. GTAIV or COD:Black Ops? Will it run?

Thanks in advanced!

 

For GPU hardware and performance differences take a look at the notebookcheck mobile GPU benchmark list.

John

 

Hey John Ratsey

Thanks for your Link. But i would be very happy if get some user experience informations.

 

I agree that one needs both sources of information. However, user opinion alone can be highly subjective.

John

 

Hello

I called today with a verry customer-friendly DELL employee.
At the nvidea page there is a better comparison between the Q880 vs. Q1800M.

And at this page here:
Computer Games on Laptop Graphic Cards - Notebookcheck.net Tech

You get some gaming titles and can choose graphic cards. I my optinion not bad!

... but i didnt found some user experience infos

 

Hi, guys. Soon I want to buy Dell Precision M4500. I want in him blu-ray burner, but from Dell is very expensive it's 12 000 CZK is 630 USD. I know that DVD RW drive in this laptop is TS-U633 type. Does anyone know, which exact type of blu-ray drive is in Precision M4500? I mean type which you can select in the Dell configurator. Thank's for answers.

 

hi guys. i own a precision m4500 with the quadro fx 880m and i installed the latest drivers and my Windows 7 Experience Index went from 6.5 to 6.4......anyone with the same experience?

 

New BIOS, A06 - m4500, up on the dell drivers page for m4500.

Here are the fixes in this revision:

1. Fixed issue where OMCI fails to enumerate the DCIM_Doced instance.
2. Added SMBIOS support for TAA MAC address.
3. Fixed one boot sequence issue when switching between RAID and AHCI.
4. Fixed issue where touch screen stops working when system is docked.
5. Improve system POST and boot performance.
6. Improve the IDE-R support.
7. Improve AHCI HDD performance.
8. Added support for China SLIC.
9. Updated Arrandale C2-stepping Microcode to patch 0x0C.
10. Updated PCH 1.6 reference code.
11. Enabled ACPI SPCR for Serial-Over-Lan.
12. Added support to display On-Board NIC MAC address in BIOS SETUP.
13. Updated Intel Clarksfield Framework Reference Code to v1.31.
14. Updated Arrandale MRC to v1.40.
15. Improve Optical drive performance in ATA mode.
16. Fixed TDM SSO structure location.
17. Fixed issue where system hangs in PBA when running Sophos software.
18. Updated Intel Video BIOS.
19. Updated the manageability engine firmware to version 6.1.20.1059.
20. Fixed issues related to F12 one time boot menu.

 

I tried downloading the driver and either Dell is having issues or they took it down because I can't download it.