Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

It must be me -- Just received 2 emails within 2 hours --

1st is from Rep who says machine is in final stage of build and should ship anytime -- but revised ship date is 12/4? Original date is 11/25.

Second email tells me delayed till 12/4.

What am I missing here? Does it take 10 more days to finish building and then ship? This would mean that it takes 3 weeks to assemble once they had all the parts which was 11/20 - It took just 2.5 weeks from order to get all the parts.

I think Dell has some VERY serious issues -- if it takes 3 weeks to assemble a machine -- that a tech can fully disassemble and reassemble in 2 hours. 5+ weeks from order to ship? No wonder they have customer service issues.

Christmas 2009 .................... just around the corner -- maybe by then,

 

Well Pgotoshop cs4 runs awefull on my covet.. am realy having lots of lag... after heavy usage for the last 3-4 days i reinstalled cs3... which cannot use all the ram i have (8gb).

dopes anybody have any settigns that make photoshop cs4 run smoother..? from the adobe forums from what i have seen many are experiencing the same issues....

 

That is EXACTLY what it is. But the contrast does not seem bad. The glass screen reflects away 50% of the light, so that light does not hit the screen. (But, it becomes visible as a reflection.) I do see both matte (diffuse and spread specular) and glossy (no diffuse, sharp specular) reflections. Only the matte is partially subdued.

That's why the sales force is so confused over the screen. They have turned a matte screen glossy by putting glass over it.

I have heard elsewhere that CS4 does not run correctly in XP64, due to it not supporting CUDA properly. I haven't tried it in Vista64 on my Covet.

 

Well, in the past 2 days I've called the automated Dell order status line to discover my unit moving from the Build stage to the Testing stage and now in the BOXING stage!! I'm so excited, and I feel so lucky because my order for my Covet was only placed on Nov 10th. There are so many of you who have been delayed and delayed, it had me getting quite bummed about my chances.

 

LLavelle,

I have the 2 -7200 RPM Seagate 320GB drives in RAID0. I have enabled HD performance mode in the BIOS. The drives are not noisy at all.

HTH,
Tim

 

Where did you get all of the XP 64-bit drivers for the M6400? Was it on a separate disk? Do all of the peripherals work with 64-bit XP (WiFi, Video Camera, eSATA, PCI-Express, USB2, Firewire, etc.)? Do you have any problems running any 32-bit apps on XP-64?

I would like to get better performance out of this rig.

Thanks,
Tim

 

Same here, boxing stage. Don't jinx us! Think orange thoughts!

 

I think this is a real dealbreaker.
I think I can live with some reflections, when I get therefor better contrast. The anoying thing with matte screens isn't the diffusion of the light that shines on the screen, but the diffusion you get from the light of the screen itselfs. My M6400 is in production so I will wait and see how it looks in real, but at the moment I think I will ship the M6400 back and get another one with the matte RGB LED. It's so ridiculous to but a matte screen under a glass plate, I can't settle myself

 

Perfectly described. So its the fingerprint reader that makes it behave like this. Will have to check into that some more.