Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

I had a M4400 which I really liked a lot, but for some stupid reason I sold it and bought a Latitude E6520 and I just like the M4400 better. I noticed Dell jumped real quick to the M4600 and then to the M4700 (which appears to have a smaller screen), but other than than that - What was the big rush to get the M4700 to market? M4600 having problems? Have they ever fixed that crappy deal with the fingerprint reader only allowing you to log into Windows only.

Was M4700 pushed out for the Windows 8 crowed? I'm very non commital on this Windows 8 OS? What is the general opinions? Stay awat from it for another year!

There also looked as if there were some "boot-up" cards that could be used on the M4700 as opposed to the M4600.

A few quick short opinions as I know all of you have more tidious things to work on. I'm trying to talk my self into buying a new M series, but not sure yet.

I might even look at a different brand this go round as the Dell's are getting more and more consistant with aggravating bugs and then act like it is not a bug and will not fix it.

Thanks very much!!!

 

I don't think it was that big a jump. M4600 was around for over a year before the M4700 showed up. They generally refresh following Intel's new batches of CPUs and toss in whatever other new stuff makes sense at the time. M4600 had Sandy Bridge CPUs (Core i5/i7 2XXX) and M4700 had Ivy Bridge CPUs (Core i5/i7 3XXX). We'll see another refresh with Haswell CPUs later this year.

 

Dell just followed the hardware refresh cycle from Intel, nVidia and AMD.

 

Disabled the camera in the BIOS a few days back to clear out the device manager bang. Yesterday I enabled it again and, lo and behold, the webcam is working fine. Hmm.

Still plan on double-checking the cable when I do the heatsink swap. Heatsink is shipped and will be here tomorrow.

 

Strange for the webcam, maybe the driver wasn't loading properly, let us know how the heatsink swap goes.

 

Finally I got my new M6700.
I have several questions.
Is it possible to unlock the Bios?.
Is it possible to run both cores on a i-5 3360m at max turbo?
Also what memory is available at 1866?
Is it worth to upgrade video from an amd 6000?
Finally what is the best wifi card available for this system?
Thanks

 

Hi, I've just ordered my NEW BABY, the M6700! I will need an auto DC power supply for it since I work a lot out of my VW Westfalia with solar power, deep cycle batteries, beer in the fridge, etc I wonder if anyone has a recommendation for a dc adapter that will work with the m6700.

Just adding that I can use an AC convertor but they are noisy and waste power during conversion. DC is so much better for power from DC batteries.

 

Hey all,

My brother and I purchased a m6700 back in November and it's been a working beautifully but we've been experiencing a bit of a "glitch" when we close and open the monitor. Once the screen turns off upon closing the lid, it won't turn back on when the lid is re-openned. I'd have to hold down the power button and do a hard reset, although i can feel the system pick up but just no display. Upon reboot, then it'll start up normally again, this doesn't happen all the time but it happens quite frequently (40% of the time or so).

I've uninstalled the drivers and everything else and re-installed everything and the problem still persists. Are there any particular drivers that might cause this? I'm talking to Prema to see if flash a vbios will help with the matter, but just wanted to see if anyone else had this problem and ended up being related to another component or driver.

thanks guys

 

I've had this problem intermittently on the M6600. Put the computer to sleep and rewake to avoid hard-reset - - usually works sometimes takes twice.

More than two weeks ago I uninstalled the Wireless Network Driver and installed the newest one and the problem has not returned.

I should add that I don't think it is necessarily the wireless driver. It actually had gotten worse after one of the Windows updates.
Don't really think it has much to do with the video driver - but I can't tell you why not.

 

I had this issue on an M6500 and believe it was the Video Card.