Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Need your help guys. Will be using my laptop for work and home. Games and VMWare for testing some of our desktop images. Just wondering Should I keep my existing M17x R4 or look to get a similarly configured M6700. I would plan to get 2 docking stations for work and home. At work I have 2 external monitors (U3011 and U2410) and at home I would have a U2410.

 

I believe it's more like free airflow, by elevating the notebook, the air has less resistance to go directly into the air intake under the notebook. The effects of heat reflection may be there, but only minimal.
Without the additional elevation, the airflow is more likely to create a lower pressure under the notebook, meaning less air will be flowing through the fans.

 

I hit 200MB/s sequential reads with a M4 on USB 3.0 and about 20MB/s with the randoms, the same as other USB3.0 ports. I don't have a screenshot because i was getting rhoughly the same speeds that i was getting with an external SSD on other USB3.0 ports.

As for dealing with the screws, i use a box with a lot of compartments for which i can identify where the screws came from. It makes reassembly rather easy.

 

Hallo everybody,
just got my M6700, everything is great but something really odd happens.
Since the very firts out of the box boot, the Ips screen don't turn on the first time I start the computer: it takes a shutdown (by pressing power-on button) and a second boot to see it working properly. This happens even after a clean reinstall of Windows 7. But, and that's the oddity in the oddity, it happens only if some hours pass between a start and the following.

I'll try to explain with some details: I press the start button, don't see the Dell logo, but the machine loads the Os. I can hear the Windows welcome sound, see the hd led blink etc. But the screen is black, turned off, no signal.
If I restart the machine holding the power button, and then start again everything is fine.
I can shutdown and restart, restart the machine, boot from cd and then again whit hdd: no problem.
But if some hours pass (lets say a night), then I have the same problem again: first boot = black screen; shutdown, then second boot = everything's fine.
And the problem keep repeating even after a clean reinstall of Win7!!!
Any idea?
Thanks.

 

I have the pictures in this thread, looks for the CPU heatsink.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...ce-680m-m6700-some-useful-info-upgraders.html

 

LOL, say what? Are you for real?


Has anybody used the 3D screen configured M6700? Is Optimus still supported (I'd expect so, but there was some mention that it might not be) and what is the picture quality compared to the regular screen on the M6700? Thanks.

 

I'm sure lots of people invented that idea, including me, but only Apple has a patent on it - not because they need it, but just to stop everyone else enjoying the benefit.

 

Or to obtain financial compensation..

 

I don't recall seeing a post from anyone who has the 3D screen but I expect that Optimus will not be supported with the 3D screen (that's the way it is with the XPS machines).

 

That's a shame then. It would be nice if there was some workaround as I'd appreciate the more fluid 2d picture that the 3d screen should offer (120 Hz).