Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

That's something only you can decide. Do you want a nicer display or more battery life. 4-5 hours of battery is enough for me, so I'd go with the IPS, but if you need as much autonomy as possible, go with the version with switchable graphics.

 

Thanks for your anwser.
By "display driver",you mean the video driver software ?
For my computer, i think it is an hardware problem. I never changed the driver once i got the last one.
And when i switched from the 2nd to the 3rd panel, the backlight level became changeable. And now, the pink logo who did in a few second, only visible if you haven't started the computer for some time, seems to be a power issue on the backlight !?!?
Could it be the inverter board ?
Anyway, Dell decided to take my computer to try to repair it. Hope it will be OK, because the last time, with my last M6700, they destroyed it !!

 

There's a "pink" logo?

 

What kind of usage gives you 4-5 hours? With WiFi internet on and light workload, Windows estimate like around 3 hrs, maybe somewhat more (using Dell Extended Battery power profile, brightness at approx. 20% by looking at the dell on screen indicator). Though, the battery wear is at like 6%, 97 Whr one. Thanks.

 

Light usage: balanced power plan, brightness at 40%, wi-fi on, browser, MS word/excel and not using the speakers.

 

OK, thanks. I have the K4000M so perhaps its low power mode is less efficient. Also, the two 7200 RPM hard drives in RAID probably don't help much, either.

 

Lol, yeah, I got 3 SSDs in there and the fans are almost always off when I'm on battery, that has to help. The firepro also has crazy low clock speeds on battery, but both Bokeh and KCETech1 reported between 4 and 5 hours on theirs with a xm CPU and the K5000m

 

Hmm, in one of my frequent moments of non-wisdom, I forgot that I've selected the Dell Battery Profile "On AC" (to prolong battery life as I've read that these 97Whr models are not so reliable as the standard capacity ones) which supposedly selects the lower charge threshold. Aida64 reports the full capacity, though, but I suppose it may also just report this based on the battery type's total capacity and the current windows battery meter status (e.g. total stated capacity of the battery type * 100/100). That might have shaven some minutes off the expected battery runtime (not to mention a file download in progress). I should investigate it with more attention before making such undocumented statements again.

 

I believe that its the "fast" charge cycle not the battery itself that accelerates battery wear.

In any event, it stands to reason that a higher capacity battery would operate at a higher threshold and take more wear and tear than a lower capacity one. How is you wear indicator responding?

 

I'm about to order an M6700 and I'd like to know how to transfer all the data from the original hard drive to a third party SSD that I will install myself. I'm thinking to buy the machine with the 750 GB spinner HDD, then add something like a Samsung 840 256 GB SSD, making the spinner a secondary drive. But I want to put all the original software that comes with the computer onto the SSD. (My apologies if this has been covered before; this thread is too massive to read every page!)