Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

Yep, "expedited" here also /highfive

Its just some b.s. placebo they feed us to keep us from canceling I'm sure.

 

Well, somebody in another thread just mentioned getting a 30% off coupon from Dell yesterday. If that is true, and they put those out again, why not cancel? If I see one before they ship, consider mine canceled. I can configure the same Covet for about $400 less, and save 30% instead of 25% on it.

If they're going to ship other Covets ordered on the same day or later than me, I have no problem inconveniencing them for a few hundred bucks more and an upgrade. We'll call it square.

So bring on the coupons! I'll still have it by year end for the tax write-off.

 

If that's true, I'm really disappointed. I ordered a glossy screen because I wanted the best contrast levels. I can't believe they put a matte screen (the matte coating is 1 production step more) under a glass plate. That'll combine both disadvantages of matte (lower contrast) and glossy (reflections). If that's realy true, than I will send my Silver-Covet back and order the matte RGB-LED.

 

Ordered 24-10. Delivered tomorow. only got the 2.8 cpu and the 512 graphics

 

okey the screen is good not fantastik but very good in my opinion.

im going to perhapse ruturn it.

my speccs are 2.8 Ghz 2700M 4 gb 200 gb it feels like this computer is fast as my old one. 2.2 single core, 1 gb ram, 250 gb, 256 mb graphic

btw how can i get to my Bios?

 

What screen did you get?

 

You can indeed setup a RAID 1 and a RAID 0 partition using Intel Matrix RAID. It is handled at the hardware level, but using your CPU rather than a dedicated chip - IE, its handled by Intel's chip using your CPU rather than Windows using drivers using your CPU.

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OK, I'm an SSD convert now.
When I originally placed my order for my orange Covet several weeks ago, I shyed away from the 64GB SSD offerred by Dell because I had previously ordered an M1130 laptop with this drive before, and it was a first generation MLC from Samsung that had horrible write throughput times, and even caused my laptop to seemingly lock up / freeze for up to 1 second sometimes under heavy write load (very aggrivating). I had to eventually swap the darn thing out for a Seagate Momentus 7200.2 drive.
Now I've had the chance to find out about the following two exciting SSD product offerings, neither of which have the big write throughput problems of the early generation SSD's:
Intel X25-M (80GB) - This is still an MLC (Multi-Level Cell) drive, but Intel's intelligent controller for this thing distributes the writes to all 10 chips in parallel, so the write delays are greatly diminished, and this drive competes with the SLC (Single-Level Cell) drives very well.
Samsung MCCOE64G5MPP (64GB) - An SLC drive with GREAT performance specs, both reading and writing.
Here's a great article comparing these two drives:
Dubau-Dubau-Dubau.tomshardware.com/review_print.php?p1=2012

You can see from the technical review that the Intel drive has much faster performance reading data, but the Samsung has much better performance writing data. In the end, they mention that under varied types of load demands while writing, the performance of the Intel drive starts to tank significantly, and the intelligent controller can't adjust fast enough to the varied types of workload, while the Samsung drive (because it is an SLC) keeps up the 90MB/s rate while writing to the drive, no matter what kind of workload you throw at it.
Soooooo, if you're trying to impress your friends at how fast your laptop starts up, go with the Intel X25-M, but if you're really wanting the sustained overall top-notch performer both reading and writing data and using your computer after it starts up, the Samsung SLC drive is the way to go.

To make the pot even sweeter, Samsung just lowered the price on their 64GB MCCOE64G5MPP drives by $200, so the street price is now actually lower than the Intel X25-M drives ($632). So if you can deal with the smaller storage capacity of the Samgung drive (64GB -vs- Intel's 80GB), than that's the way to go.
Even though I ordered my orange Covet with traditional hard drives, I've ordered two of the Samgung SSD's and I'll be running them in RAID 0 configuration to replace the drives when I get my unit. I'm running it as RAID 0 not so much for performance reasons, but just to get it all as one large drive C: partition (I hate splitting my system into two pieces). I make regular full image backups anyway.

 

CCFL screen. I think he mentions it a few pages back.

 

Ok confirmed. "Expedited" means that you'll actually get it a week later than quoted. I just got an email from the Customer Support associate that had expedited my order saying they're short on batteries and therefore my Covet will ship 10 days later than quoted.

"Expedited".... more like Dell-ayed. Now where's that new coupon? Anyone else see it?