M4800 Owner's Thread

According to HWiNFO, it's 6Gbps.

 

No need for a special driver, most monitors show this way.

 

Sata III and the drive thickness is 9.5mm high as opposed to 14.7mm

In addition, the esata's port is also sata III (HWinfo) however, my external sata III SSD is preforming at sata II speeds. Possibly due to the only esata cord I could find locally.

 

Regarding the external SSD, unless the controller for the enclosure is SATA III, you'll be stuck with SATA II. If the controller in your enclosure is SATA III (I'd really be surprised, but pleased if it were the case), then yeah it likely is the cable or HWiNFO is wrong which is also possible.

 

No enclosure controller, its ghetto rigged ATM.
I have a esata to sata cord that is plugged into the computer and directly into the 7-pin sata connection on the SSD.
For power, I bought a sata power extension cable, its a 15 pin, power only, Y- sata connector with 1-male end and 2 female ends. I plugged the male end into a old enclosure (powered by usb) and one of the female ends into the SSD.


Supposedly, there is a esata III cable online, but I'm impatient and ghetto rigged this setup from material sourced from Fry's

 

May I ask for any hints to 1600x900 resolution? I'd expect perfect sharpness due to pixel doubling (make 4 out of 1 pixel). But didn't read about it so far.

 

1600 x 900 looked nice and sharp (as expected) the one or two times I tried it, but I've been mostly fine running everything at the native resolution.


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Definitely not perfect sharpness. There's a pretty noticeable difference in sharpness going from 3200x1800 to 1600x900 and the other way around, but it's definitely usable if needed.

 

One of the key features of the Precision line (expect for the M3800) is the future proof concept of the notebooks. Which means you can upgrade the laptop to meet future demands over a period of use. However, I haven't seen any discussion of the lack of thunderbolt connections which are available in the Zbooks and the Lenovo W series. This is a major drawback considering that two years from now this connection will be more common.

 

This was discussed in more depth when the M4700/M6700 launched. The reasoning behind the decision not to include it is, a the cost of a Thunderbolt controller isn't negligible, and since it is rarely used (currently), they don't want to saddle everyone with the cost when very few people would use it. This may change down the line if use of Thunderbolt picks up, or if it gets native support in the chipset.