M4800 Owner's Thread

I upgraded my m4800 to p2000 4gb ddr5 mxm card!

 

Show us a proof!

 

I will show you in 2days when I am home

 

I've not had any issues with mine after 5-6 years.

 

My old m4800 had issues with crappy magnet sensor.. I ended up destroying the laptop.
I had taken out its i7 CPU.. and I'll transplant the CPU to Lenovo T540p which came with i5.

 

So one anecdotal data point for and one against. Based on that sort of sample size, it feels like a stretch to say it's "best" to remove anything.

 

Not just one anecdotal issue. There are several users who had this same problem. M4600 never had this type of issue... so I'm guessing this happens to m4800 series only.
A guy at m4800 engineering team had a little faulty concept with magnet sensor maybe.

 

So, about 4 or 5 anecdotal issues.

Any links? That all sounds extremely vague.

 

https://www.dell.com/community/Prec...00-palm-rest-simulates-lid-close/td-p/7259765

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/b0xvrp/m4800_palm_rest_triggering_standbylid_close/

https://www.dell.com/community/Lati...ken-how-can-I-disable-lid-sensor/td-p/7308923

 

other Dell laptops have similar issues with magnet lid sensor:
https://www.dell.com/community/Inspiron/Laptop-keeps-going-to-sleep/td-p/6071673

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1421493


So, the idea of using magnet in lid sensor happened to be disaster for many users.
They had to use something else than primitive magnets...
I think it's some of the poorest engineering ideas from Dell.
They had to use signal or some other machine sensor to prevent all these problems.