M4800 Owner's Thread

Just a dumb thought… I don’t do video editing. Do you have set the “pro audio/video (low latency)” power profile? It affects the PCI Express bus: it disables any power-saving states on it. (Or you might adjust your regular profile in the same way.)

Additional thoughts:
Have you tried DPO? http://www.dell.com/performanceoptimizer
I believe Premiere Pro is among its profiles.

Furthermore, the underlying cause might be in your disk setup. You might want to share with us what disks you’re using to edit videos…

 

Hi All,
I receivedmy M4800 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS recently
I see you all guys have two display adapters in M4800, one Intel Integrated and another Nvidia or AMD.

But my M4800 only have nVidia, there is no Intel display adapter. As i couldn't find any any option to switch Video adapter in BIOS. Under 'Video' there is only option to set LCD brightness, nothing else.

lspci is also not showing Intel Video adapter.
Does dell stopped delivering two video adapters?

 

If you got QHD+, the integrated Intel HD isn’t hooked up, and there is nothing to do about it (short of designing your own mainboard ).

 

Managed to score a Crucial M500 480GB SSD on an Amazon lightning deal today for £115, time to swap out this Seagate SSHD.

I'm tempted to buy a caddy and stick the SSHD in the optical bay, what's the SATA speed for the optical bay? Any recommendations on where to buy the caddy? (e.g. Dell p/n?)

 

Buy the caddy from newmodeus


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The NewmodeUS ones are a bit hard to get in Europe.
For Europeans the best (only?) source I've found is this:
http://www.newmodeus.de/en/
This will go to HANTZ+Partner, they are a Reseller.
(Just a customer myself, not affiliated or anything)
Cheers
Mike

 

While official docs state only SATA-2, people have confirmed that all internal (and external) SATA is SATA-3.

 

Hi,
I would like to change the screen of my M4800 for a new AUO B156HW01 V.4
Could someone tell me which one I found on Ebay it's the original one?

New Original 15 6" Laptop LCD Screen LED RGB Display AUO B156HW01 V 4 Panel | eBay

AUO AU Optronics B156HW01 V 4 V4 15 6" FHD LED ANTIGLARE 95 NTSC Color Gamut | eBay

Thanks!

 

I have an m4800 with a 256 gb ssd drive. The thing boots up from being turned off very quick, but when I hit the power button to wake it up from sleeping and get the message something like 'windows is resuming', it takes forever to boot back up with windows 7. It takes longer than my 5 year old slow laptop use to take to turn on from off with a slow hhd drive. Any suggestions as to configuration changes to speed this process up, or is it a hardware issue? I don't get what's bogging it down.

 

Why are you using hibernate? You probably have 16GB of memory that needs to be written to (and then read from) the SSD each time you hibernate and resume (which also causes unneeded wear on the SSD).

You can disable hibernate using powercfg (google it). I just use sleep and/or shutdown - like you said, the machine boots up nice and fast anyway.