Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

Yeah, right... That would be way cool, of course, to have 1TB of SSD space available, but if you look at current prices for these things, such a setup might cost you several times the price of a fully maxed-out Covet (which is about $10k or thereabouts). If you have the money to burn you should do it, but most people may hesitate to spend the equivalent of nice little BMW on a laptop

The same as the throughput from the SSDs; with the SATA interface, the drives are still the bottleneck, not the bus.

Ideally up to about 8GB/s, I think, for a 1GHz bus transferring 64bits per cycle. Why do you ask? Those SSDs wouldn't even come close to saturating that.

 

I just hope this 512GB drive starts pushing the 64GB and 128GB ones down in price.

It really is crazy how much they cost at the moment!

Regards,
Simon

 

Just out of curiousity how do you 'max out' a covet and have it come in at 10 grand? Because maxing out all the choices in the online ordering page I burn out at around 7000 dollars. Where do I dump the other $3000? We're talking just the computer, no software. I'm not challenging your statement, I just wonder what I'm missing. I usually have no trouble finding a way to make something as expensive as possible.
And I think spending big bucks on SSDs right now is for people with more money than sense. What about the production cost justifies the kind of prices all this flash memory stuff ask at the outset, only to have it drop by fourfold in the course of a few months as the next bigger 'stick' comes along? It seems like they are taking as much as they can get for as long as they can get it. From a pretty uninformed about the specific industry (high tech computo stuff), but pretty well informed on production in general it seems like in time SSDs should cost less than a mechanical drive. And they probably already do for the people that make them. Whether or not they are only recouping 'development costs', which to me is doubtful but not impossible is an issue we'll probably never know the answer too, I'll wait. I have mechanical drives that are still fine after well over 20,000 hours use, so I'll struggle along until they start putting SSDs in boxes of Cheerios.

 

Yeah, I'm with you. I could live with dual128Gig drives, I guess, but barely so. It's always dangerous to guess how the prices on these things may develop, but looking at where we are now, I'd say maybe a year or two from now it may start to make sense to buy these.

P.S.: Turns out you can already buy some of these large and fast SSDs from Solidata, here. One of these babies will run you a cool 3,000 swiss franks, roughly $2,800 at the current rate. So, it's not as bad as I thought. With larger production numbers, Toshiba may be able to cut this price in half sometime this year even.

 

I haven't checked recently, but in November that was the standard price (for large businesses). If you are in a special group (government, educational institution, special contract with Dell), then you would end up at about $7k. Maybe they have come down in price already.

 

That was figured on the 'Small business' prices. And yes Dell's prices usually drop not long after a model is introduced. When I bought my M6300 the x9000 chip cost me an extra $950. A month later it had dropped almost $200. Go figure. And Dell Costa Rica has a whole different price structure and fewer options than the U.S. Dell. And Dell Switzerland has the highest Dell prices I've found yet. Was thinking of having a soon to arrive Swiss friend bring me a new computer till I saw the prices. It's cheaper and the only way to get the options I want for me to buy from U.S. Dell, fly to the States to take delivery and then fly back to Costa Rica.

 

SAMSUNG 256gb ANYONE?

has anybody found where to buy the samsung 256gb ssd's online or off , or even the the 512 toshiba's..? anything with better performance than the intel x25-E but with more space..? do you know when intel will be releasing their 64gb E's..?

 

The Toshibas are not available yet; second half of the year, maybe.

 

Okay with me if it downclocks (while travelling).
Which of these does it downclock: CPU, GPU, bus, etc.
Most likely only CPU and GPU.
I would be pleased if it downclocked GPU and then CPU.

Max power consumption:
FX3700M 75W
QX9300 45W (which is really good when one considers that it has 4 cores with 12MB cache)

Anyone know if the FX3700M can be manually controlled (i.e., throttled) to use less power?
Can some of the memory be limited/powered off.
Most of the time I do not need 1GB GPU memory.

Can two cores of the QX9300 be manually shut down?

 

Thanks.

Is anyone using a lighter (than the M4400) power supply with their M6400?