M4700 Owners Thread

Yup, but when you remove the previous drive and put the new one in, you'll know why I say that the drive will hold in place without any issues, it is held in place very firmly. anyways, if you don't need the quick release mechanism, there are 4 screws that you can put back in place that will hold the drive in place so that it will never move. Those screws are in place by default and you will have to remove them when swapping drives, you simply can't remove the caddy without removing those four screws. Check the M4700 user's manual if you want more details, it's available on Dell's website.

 

The keyboard of my M4700 has flex on the left side. The right one is quite firm. Has anyone experienced the same problem? Is there a way to solve this? Dell has replaced my keyboard three times but no luck. This is very annoying, if the M4800's keyboard has no flex it will be reason enough for me to upgrade. Oh, I forgot, mine is the version with no backlight. Maybe the backlight keyboard is better in this regard.

 

I have the keyboard with the backlight and I do not notice any flex on either side.

 

I have a M4700 with 9 cell 87whz battery coming in the mail, and I was wondering how much battery life the owners are getting with Optimus enabled?

 

Roughly 6-7 hours, I have an extra power wedge as well on mine which gives me 14 hours in total. That setup have managed to keep me busy when flying Stockholm-Texas with change over in Chicago with out re-powering. Remember to turn off keyboard backlight and reduce screen brightness...

 

Awesome! How long have you had the 97 Whz battery for? How is it holding up?

I am in the process of choosing between the 87 Whz 9 cell with 3 year warranty and 97 Whz 9 cell without warranty

 

After 10 month it is at 88% of it lifetime, report from dell diagnistics.
I always do standby, never hibernate, rarely shutdown (just when doing a full restart)

 

Hello!

I`m here from acers 5739g thread. I`ve bought M4000 for my laptop and I can see, that this beast-card is really hot. Can someone, please, post photos of video-cooling system of your M4700?

 

Wow, I've seen fanboy posts before but this is a doozer...

 

I spent the bulk of my day reading through various reviews of the M4700 and this thread. I am in need of a good 15" laptop and found an M4700 on eBay for $975.00

I'm going to install an Intel 520 240gig SSD that I have and I'm replacing the memory with 32gigs of memory I already have (both the drive and the memory come from an HP 8770W) and also replace the Dell wireless with the Intel 6300. The machine comes with the 3 year warranty ending in July of 2016. After replacing the drive and memory the machine will be getting Windows 8.1 Pro. From what I have read this should be a worthy successor to my HP Dragon I recently sold.

This is the config as purchased:
320 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
Wave Systems Software
Integrated HD video webcam and noise reducing array microphones
Dell Wireless 1504 802.11g/n Single Band Wi-Fi Half Mini-card
15.6 INCH UltraSharp FHD (1920x1080) Wide View Anti-Glare, Premium Panel Guarantee
Internal Swipe Fingerprint Reader, USH and Contactless Smartcard Reader
Internal English Dual Point Backlit Keyboard
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz
Processor: Intel Core 3rd Generation i7-3740QM Processor (2.7GHz, 6M cache, Upgradable to Intel vPro technology)
Trend Micro 16.6 PC-cillin 30 Day
Microsoft Office 365 - 1 Month Trial
180W A/C Adapter, 3P
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit w/Operating System DVD
AMD FirePro M4000 Mobility Pro Graphics with 1GB GDDR5
Dell Data Protection Access
6 Cell Lithium-Ion Primary Battery
8X DVD ROM Drive
3 Years Warranty (NBD Onsite Service)
What's included: Laptop, battery, OS DVD and ac adapter.