Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

Don't know but my Samsung is supposedly 9.5mm but I have to screw it down tight or the battery doesn't seat easily, you have to push. So as far as #1 drive goes I doubt it would fit. The #2 drive I don't know.

And since you by your own admission are a "geek" (whatever that is exactly) you'd be more likely than I to know. How would you go about changing the numbers on the drives, ie; making #2 into #1? If you just install one OS and it's on drive 2 does the computer automatically figure that out on it's own or does it need help?

 

The m6400 is pretty up to date. The mobile Core i7 processors won't be out for a while yet (Q1 2010), and no telling how long until the Dell workstations have them. They will add hyperthreading and eliminate the FSB, which will speed up CPU intensive applications, but if you need that soon, I would buy a desktop. The m6400 should be good for a few years at least, and will be a huge boost over a Studio 17.

 

yea, the 30% off is very good when you look at a $3k system for $2k and change...

they still have a pretty trouble free return policy on their businses system, right?

just wondering if i should have gone for the QX9300 i/o Q9100... but i figure for what i do... it won't make too much difference...

 

Weird thought..

Pixels are made of 3 components or primary colours, red, blue and green. For an ultra high def pixel, each component should have 256 shades and then you'd need a number thats 256^3 to store its value = 16,777,216 bits, or dividing by 8 -> 2,097,152 bytes ~ 2MB

High Def = 1920 x 1080p = 2,073,600 pixels
So for a High Def Image, you'd need 2,073,600 x 2MB = 4,147,200 MB ~ 400 GB of storage.

Video is 25 frames a second, so for 1 second of High Def Video you'd need 400GB x 25 = 10,000 GB = 10 Terrabytes of storage!

For a Minute of High Def video this would be 60 x 10 TB = 600 TB of storage.
For an Hour -> 60 x 600 TB = 36,000 TB. An Average film of 2hrs this would be 72,000 TB!

Suddenly a 25 GB bluray disk doesnt look at all that big
Do you guys think we'll have removable discs with this much storage one day? or even hard drives? How long would 72,000 TB take to burn on disc anyway lol

Veni

 

I don't do video and have no idea where but there must be a big hole in your theory or calculations. Let me know if you find it. I don't have that much free time on my hands.

 

What is this 30% off coupon? I'm considering this and 30% off would be a huge factor in making a decision.

 

You sure about the 30% coupon? I get their business coupons and besides a 40% for some Vostro and 25 or 30 for a Studio or Inspiron (forgot which) haven't been able to find one. They do have them occasionally (I got 20% on a Outlet Covet) but make sure what you're relying on isn't out of date or something. And NJ turns a 30% coupon into a 23% one, right? Know anyone in Delaware?

 

zomby, dell gives out these mystery coupons code that gives a range of 20-30% off...

you can google it or look for it on eBay...

tbh, i may have rushed on my decision... it seems that Q4 with the launch of windows7, many computers will release new items... and i figure the m6400 will have to make room for the newer top of line workstations.

iirc, the 30% coupon expires as of yesterday.
google dell mystery coupon.

yessir... i got an order confirmation where they knocked off 30%... it expired yesterday.

here's a link of it on ebay...

 

Hey Veni:

I think your calculation is a bit off. To store three values, each with 256 shades, you would only need 3 bytes as each byte can store 256 values. Also, you are trying to calculate "raw" pixel value storage. Videos are pretty much all encoded and compressed with some codec.

 

hmm... the non covets that i ordered will be matte screen, right?
it seems only the covets e2e are gloss?