Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Well, as I already wrote: 32GB of 1866MHz CL10 RAM here: throughput about 24.2GB/s.
I did test this RAM in my M6500 and it used indeed only 1333MHz mode.

Cheers,
Alex

 

I have been running 32GB of 1866Mhz RAM for several weeks now without any issues.

 

Have you ran WEI? Just curious as to the scores with the higher speed ram.

 

The review was not Brutal to the M6700 in any way. The performance measured is the fastest he had seen. The price was lower than the competition. He stated that the Dell had more options for storage. He said the M6700 was a solid design.

The issue is that he personally did not like the design of the machine. With the exception of the Display measurements, it is a solid set of measurements and in fact it shows that the Dell is a solid machine.

Unfortunately, he had equal parts Editorial discussion about his personal taste in design. Read the last 2 paragraphs of the review. He simply likes the HP better, but has no real way to back it up. So he says that instead of going with his head, he is going with his heart. His heart is "Oh So Dreamy" for HP.

His only major gaff was "NVIDIA's Optimus has been thriving for years now on consumer GPUs, but Quadro chips still don't benefit from it.". This is not true. The 10 bit IPS panel in the Dell can not use it, but any 8 bit panel with a Quadro can. HP does not offer Optimus at all, so this may be his lack of knowledge about the Dell options.

The screen has a native gamut of 2.2. Not sure why he is trying to test it at 1.8. The Samsung panel in the M6500 was closer to 1.8, but the LG IPS panel in the M6700 is def 2.2. I did note that even with the issues he was having, that the M6700 screen measured better than the HP - except that he did not know how to put the panel into NTSC/FULL mode with the PremierColor software before measuring. If he is trying to measure it in AdobeRGB mode, that is actually a narrower color space than NTSC or Full or Default.

They missed a lot of finer points.

What else is missing on the HP?
Only one cooling fan on the HP.
When it first came out, you could not get an extreme processor with it, but this seems to have changed.
No option to run Optimus graphics switching.
No 1866 RAM.
No 512gb SSD options.
No 3D display option
No option for 4 storage devices.
No ejectable hard drive.
M6700 has 3 video outputs.
No mSata drive option.
No FIPS fingerprint reader.
No Contactless Smartcard reader.
No battery slice.

What is missing on the M6700?
Chiclet keyboard.
All Aluminum chassis.
Better surface treatment on touchpad.

Writing reviews is not easy. On the one hand, the time that you have with a machine is usually limited, but on the other you have to try and get every measurement you can and actually use the system enough to write a solid review about it. The reviews I write here have no time limit or deadline because I own the machine. I get years with them instead of weeks.

His review of the HP Elitebook 8760W was solid and he loved the machine. He did not mention any other company until the last page when he said Dell would sell you an M6600 with the same specs for $!000 less.

Unfortunately, he chose to make the M6700 review a follow up review on the HP. In fact, HP is mentioned in a very high percentage of the paragraphs in the M6700 review. You have HP, HP, HP in every single paragraph introducing the machine. This is not exactly fair to Dell. As I personally start to write reviews for large tech website, I am going to try and make sure I don't fall into the same trap that he did.

One baffling note. Here is what he said about the M6600 when it was released "While Dell's Precision notebooks are still a little boxy and aren't quite the ladykillers the new HP EliteBooks are, there's still something very austere and functional about them that puts consumer-grade laptops from any manufacturer to shame". I guess he changed his mind.

 

I agree with Bokeh, the reviewer's closing comments make it pretty clear that he prefers the HP, but that the Dell has a lot going for it. Just don't read the comments, you got an Apple vs Workstation tennis match in there (even though the macbook pro deserves to be called the macbook pro(sumer) and it not geared the same crowd as the elitebooks and precisions).

As a random thought, if my Precision holds up well for the two years to come (no reason why it shouldn't), I'll likely spend a ton of cash on a covet M6900 (why oh why aren't they making a covet version of the 15", i'd love a M4700 in red too).

 

Yes, the review is a bit too subjective and the real miss is that the Quadros don't support Optimus (as this is one of Dell's obvious advantages, though not on the testing machine), but that's an interesting statement you've dug out from the Dell M6600 review. How is Dell boxy compared to the new HP's unless I don't understand the term correctly? Personally, I prefer the new HP design as well, but I'd still go for the Dell (don't like the keyboard on the HP plus that ugly silver stripe underneath the screen; not to mention the more functional differences you've listed).

 

Actually, the last 3 pages of the comment thread sound a lot like what we are saying here.

 

is it kingston? I've asked them a week ago, they said it's still in the testing-phase ...

Bought a 120 watt car-adapter, but it doesn't work. The power-plug fits perfectly, the LED on the device is on; But it doesn't work;

 

Yeah, they do, but some of the comments make you cringe, but i guess that's to be expected.

I believe Corsair now makes 8GB 1866MHz sticks, but I could be wrong.

120W might just not be enough to get the laptop to boot or the adapter isn't recognized as a genuine dell adapter.

 

me again ... I've tried ESC, DEL, F1, F5, F8, F11, F12 on start-up but none is getting me either into BIOS or save-mode ... started pressing as soon as the screen became black after shut down

thanks ...