M4700 Owners Thread

You could talk to dell on the chat support line, tell them one of your keys failed. You checked the motherboard connection and it was good. If they offer a service call you could say you just want the parts dispatched to you. I doubt they'd make you shift a 50 dollar keyboard back to them? I'm not really sure how you would have broken the keyboard.

Or if you really think you broke it, you can get a replacement on ebay or somewhere like parts people for the 40-60 dollar range.

 

its not broken, but when i remove the key to see if there is something under it which dont belong there and it broke then i would have a problem
i dont checked the mb connection since its just one button and just during playing with constant pressure on it or a Wd combo.

 

4 in total should not be a problem. Here is the photo for 6700, but should be exactly the same for 4700 (in first post)
http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...recision-m6700-owners-review.html#post8736956

 

I have 1xWQHD via display port, 1x HD display via HDMI & 1xHD display via VGA + built in panel. The HDMI and display port are listed as using the k1000M and the others Intel HD Graphics 4000.

 

Hello, I just got a M4700 3 weeks ago. But having a funny issue, about 2~3 times a day, my keyboard starts acting funny. When I press the keys on the left side, it actually does a different thing than what key is listed. Such as P key will bring up next window, L Key will bring up F1. And so on.

Love this laptop, upgrade on my slower M4600/2000M latop. Running out of RAM for Vitrual Machines.

All except for ages old NVidia Quadro drivers, can't find a mod file in order to install 305.93...

New M4700
3820QM
32GB ddr3 1600 Mushkin 1.35v ram
830 512Gb SSD
K2000M
BluRay Drive - Mata BD-RE UJ252
6300-N Intel WiFi adapter
380 Bluetooth
9 Cell Battery
backlit Keyboard
FIPS Security scanner
But, No Camera, can't because of customer base I support, no cell-phone/camera in data centers/facilities

 

You did try high pressure air?
Tilt the machine in the air and look?
I'm not kidding here, just recently my friend lost a small tip of her fake fingernail in there. It skipped to different key. When I finally found it I had to pry it out with a pin. The response I received: I didn't know, how would I know. Well your missing one right.

 

This is the exact sleeve I bought for my Son's M4600: Dell Adventure 15

Per this article, the M4700 is identical exterior dimensions: New Dell Precision M4700 and M6700 Mobile Workstations Announced

The sleeve fits perfectly, but not to tight, like some aftermarket sleeves. Double check the Demensions with Dell, but I think that will take care of it.

 

Got my M4700 a couple of days ago! Specs: i7-3720QM, 16GB RAM, 256GB Samsung SSD, Quadro K2000M, regular 1080p WLED screen, Intel 6300 WiFi.

The good:
- Very, very fast.
- No high latencies observed so far (though I have not used WiFi yet).
- My M4700 came with the latest BIOS A02 installed (not on the website yet?).
- Windows 8 runs fine out of the box, just have to wait for K2000M drivers.

The bad:
- I noticed it will not turbo higher than 3.4 Ghz, even when plugged in and under a single threaded load.
- The touchpad is crap (as usual with Dell). The keyboard has a slight flex to it, and typing off-center feels kinda awkward initially.
- The max. screen brightness is not very bright, I wonder how well it will work outdoors on a sunny day (the weather has been terrible here so it's hard to test).

The ugly:
- The front left edge does not line up with the palm rest perfectly, looks cheap for such an expensive machine.
- The fan behavior when doing light work, e.g. browsing, is REALLY annoying, it will spin up for 3 seconds, then spin down again, 30 seconds later it spin up again, etc. Only when there's absolutely no load on the system will it be quiet. I hope this is going to be fixed in a future BIOS version.

Overall I'd give the laptop a 7/10. It's definitely fast and has all the ports you could wish for. The screen is nothing fancy though, the input devices suck as usual, and for the money I'd rather have bought a rMBP (which corporate policy prevents me from doing unfortunately).

 

You mentionned you installed Windows 8. Do you get those symptoms with Windows 7?

 

The thing is that Windows loves distributing the load between cores and given that you have the OS running and other background processes, you usually very rarely hit an overall load on a single core. In my experience, the CPU will turbo to something close to the max frequency, but not quite. I didn't test this on a 3rd gen corei7, but i tested it on Clarksfield and Sandy Bridge CPUs with unlocked multipliers.