Dell M6600 IPS Panel Review

The M6500 came with an LG or Samsung panel. Many hours and thousands of words were spent comparing the two on the M6500 thread.

 

Is the M6500 and M17x R2 panel the same? My R2's RGBLED WUXGA panel is a Samsung, and has decent viewing angles.

 

they are the same.

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Is this panel good for gaming? RGB TN is perfect for this , but have no idea how IPS performs while gaming.

 

So, long story short, I presume the LG is better?

 

The Samsung seemed to have a wider range of colors that it could display, but without calibration, the reds and greens could be a little intense or over saturated.

The LG had more natural colors uncalibrated, but after calibration it did not have the color saturation of the Samsung.

Calibrated, both were really good. It just depended on personal taste. If 10 were perfect color saturation, the LG would go up to 9.5 and the Samsung to 11. Good calibration made the Samsung a 10 and the LG a 9.5.

LG better out of the box. Samsung better calibrated. Splitting a whole lot of hairs to even say that.

10 bit IPS LG panel in the M6600 is better out of the box and calibrated than either of them. Only downside is waiting 15 - 20 minutes for the IPS panel to warm up if the machine is physically cold when you start it up. If the machine has been running or you have a warm office, the time is much less.

 

I personally think so. Not sure about response rate of the panel, but I have not seen any issues with ghosting.

If you had a game that supported deep color (another way of saying more than 8 bit color) then it would be an obvious yes.

The way I look at it, the people that designed the graphical elements of a game would likely have done so on a good monitor. I would like to think it was a color calibrated monitor to get consistency across multiple workers. Assuming all of that is true, the way for me to see EXACTLY what they designed is to see it on a high quality calibrated panel. Then again, maybe a middle manager said "make it pop more!" and everything got blown out and cartoon-like.

If you liked the RGBLED TN, you would really like the IPS version. More contrast and better color.

 

This panel is the best laptop panel in any current and past system, period.

I just can't stop using my M6600 for everything, even just web browsing lol.

And I got it at the outlet, non-refurb (was a return unopened/new) for $1400 less than new.

I am in heaven as IMO the display on a laptop is the most important part.

I just wish the build quality was a little more robust, but that is nitpicking

 

So the only IPS screen available on the M6600 is the LG panel?

I have the HP 8740W with the Dreamcolor IPS panel and have not been that impressed. It has the LG panel. For some reason I have never been too fond of LG panels. They just don't seem to have the accurate natural colors like Samsung panels.

 

I know that all of the panels that are built for the various OEMs are built to that company's specs. This could mean that the panels built for HP may not be the same as the one's built for Dell. We would have to look at the specs offered by each vendor.

HP sends the video signal through a hardware based processing card that allows the display to show the various color spaces and other settings. The processing card takes the 8 or 10 bit output from the video card, processes it at 8 bits, and then outputs that data to the 10 bit display panel. Dell sticks with a 10 bit flow of data all the way from the graphics card to the display panel. This means that each system will likely display images differently. I have not seen the HP with my own eyes right next to an M6600, so I can't say which is better.

 

Same here. About a year ago i have had the 8560w but swapped to a Macbook Pro after that. Maybe i change it to a M4700, when Apple is going to remove the Ethernet-Port from their "PRO" line ><....