M4800 Owner's Thread

I agree on this one too, when I pack everything in its all ok, but then I look down and see this brick and something inside me says: "This is the payment for your rendering sins"

cables are truly thick this meaning they are shielded. if they are to be thin you'd get heating issues interference breakages etc. but I do agree they could do them softer! but no I have to look down again on my floor and cry

 

Thankfully, 90% of the travel this machine sees is home-work-home, so I just leave one at each location, since I got a 240W brick with my dock.

It's really not so bad.

 

Just got my new M4800 from Dell. I ordered it with a 500GB SSHD, but just ordered a 250GB SSD from Samsung. I used Samsung's Drive Cloning Software (I usually hate bundled software, but this worked really well) to image the factory drive in the media bay to the new SSD in the primary bay. Cloning took like 8 minutes and worked very well.

Once I booted the machine up, I noticed that the Samsung software (correctly) did not copy over the recovery partition. However, I also noticed that the default Dell install takes up 68.8GB of Space! I thought the cloning might have messed this up, but it looks like thats how big it was on the old drive! I have no extra software installed.

Does anyone know why the Dell install takes up so much space? Are there any guides for freeing it up? In my experience, an install from scratch should take up about 7GB of space for Windows 7, not 70!

 

Please help with enabling touchpad two-finger tap, thanks!

Hello. I'm fresh and quite satisfied owner of M4800.
As I had unpacked the machine, it had Windows 7 64bit factory installation. To my great suprise I could use two-finger tap with touchpad, didn't need to press physical right button for right click menu options. The sun was shining to the moment I ran Dell Client System Update, it found recommended Touchpad driver update, I installed it and now the two-finger tap option is gone. It's extremely sad!

I hope it's somehow possible to get this two-finger-tap-option working again.

With hope and best regards.

 

Have you checked if it's an option in the touchpad settings?

 

Nope, it's not there and alas I don't know if it was an option in the touchpad settings while it worked, also what was the driver release. I have already tried many different driver versions, also some original drivers from Alps. Nothing has yet gave me back two-finger tap.

 

Have you tried reverting to the default 'Dell Touchpad' driver from Windows Update? That's what I have installed (dated 4/2/2014), and two-finger tap works. I suppose you could also post the contents of your registry keys under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alps\Apoint, and perhaps we'd spot a difference there.

 

I carry the M4800 around every day. And I'd like to have other things in my backpack besides the laptop and it's power supply.
When people on the train see this power supply monster you get incredulous looks and can be happy when you don't get laughed at.

It is really really bad. And yes at home and at work I also have docking stations and 240W power supplies.

 

I can understand the weight and/or size being a problem. Or that it flips the breaker on an airplane because of the excessive power draw (see M3800 thread). But people are looking at you funny on the train...? That can't be your main objection, surely.

 

Thanks, skriefal, for the hope!

I uninstalled Dell Touchpad driver, now I don't have any Alps entries in Registry.
Can you be more specific about "default 'Dell Touchpad' driver from Windows Update"? Windows Update offers me currently nothing on section. Maybe you can see the driver version number, its a start to search from Google.

Also there should be some entry in Device Manager to start reverting but I dont see any "touchpad-named" devices.

Thanks in advance for more details!