Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

Originally Posted by evilhead
Edge2Edge means the whole top is one sheet of covered glass, no bezel. You can see the 'glossyness' of it when he moves the notebook around in that youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpxl2...eature=related

E2E is definitely glossy.

 

Hi, I'm about to order one of these (m6400) for my dad, its going to be a work laptop, basically autocad is the only thing thats going to be running on it,

- T9400
- 4gigs ram
- fx 2700m 512mb
- dual 250gb 7200's
- wuxga screen
- 9 cell battery

1. Before I order - What sort of battery life does it get? (if any)

Realistically it'l probably always be in reach of a plug socket, but it would be nice to be able to use it on site.

2. If it has a dock option, is there an option to use a battery slice too?

 

Yes according to Dells Website there is a Battery Slice for it.

84 WHr Extended Battery Slice for Dell Latitude E6400/6400 ATG/ E6500 Laptops / Precision Mobile WorkStations M2400/ M4400/ M6400
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...etail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=312-0747

 

Sorry but the battery slice in not compatible with the M6400. The accessories page is wrong. I will get it fixed.
Mano@Dell

 

Will a coolslice be available for the M6400?

 

My M6400 has shipped! I'll be getting it probably late in the afternoon depending on when the DHL guy gets here. I got the quad-core model, with dual SSDs in RAID, Quadro 3700, and 4GB of RAM. Will post thoughts...

 

Does anyone have any real-world information on battery life for the M6400? I'm going to be ordering one sometime next month.

 

Which would be better.. a single SSD for the OS and programs and a secondary traditional 7200 RPM HDD for storage- or a pair of 7200 RPM drives running in RAID 0? Keep in mind that the M6400 has hardware RAID.. not software. I'm thinking the RAID 0 HDD performance will be close to a MLC SSD (i.e. Samsung 128 GB SSD) but be cheaper and hold more storage. Either way I go- I do weekly backups of my entire computer. I'm not too worried about data loss if one or both of the drives kick the bucket.

-nixx

 

Thats the exact setup I have in mind regarding HDs as well. Not worried about data loss either.

 

I just received mine yesterday. My current laptop is a M6300 w/ Intel X9000 Extreme, 4gb ram, 512 video. I have owned 2 M6300's along with several other dell models. In my opinion, the M6300 has been the best laptop made by Dell. I was really expecting the M6400 to be my new favorite.

Specs on my 6400:
Vista 64-bit, Quad Core, 8gb ram, 1 gb video, 80gb primary, 120 gb secondary.

Let me say that performance is amazing. I have no complaints whatsoever about actual performance. It's even better than I expected. But I do have a few other complaints.

1) Overall build quality is nice. The keyboard quality is awful. It almost feels fragile. The flex is just terrible. Fortunately, I won't be using the keyboard that often, but the keyboard on the 6300 was much better.

2) I have two dead pixels in the screen. I will call Dell later today to see what they say.

3) Webcam doesn't work at all.

4) Security apps - I enabled the fingerprint reader it has been downhill ever since.

5) Now that windows update has installed all the latest updates, the machine takes over 15 minutes to boot. Safe mode is pretty quick. I'm trying to disable the security features now because I think this is the cause.

Hopefully I can reply with better news shortly.