M4800 Owner's Thread

Thanks! I'm on WIndows 7. So would i have to download the drivers from Dell?

 

Yes. Look under Chipset and download the one called Intel USB3.0 xHCI driver for 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor U-Series Platform I/O and Intel® 8 Series/C220 series Chipset Family Products

 

With regards to the QHD vs. FHD and scaling, can you set the QHD panel to 1920 x 1080, just like the FHD panel? I know a few programs I will run, like Photoshop and LR, have scaling issues now, but won't forever, and I usually keep a laptop like 5 years. So I am ok with dumbing it down short term for long term gain when updates fix these issues. Not sure how AutoCAD and Revit work with the QHD? That's about what I use.

I also run a Dell u2412 off it, so how do you work that and the QHD simultaneously with windows 7? Really struggling to figure out which screen to buy. I may just get the FHD and not look back as either will probably suffice for what I do (architect), but I've had such an awful low res gloss screen for 5 years on my current laptop that I want to make up for my sins. Any advice?

 

You can run it at 1920 x 1080. It will be a tiny bit fuzzy (because it's non native), but looks fine.

Scaling between two monitors has been covered many many many times in various threads - try searching the forum a bit and reading up.

 

I've had no problems with the file transfers I've done to a 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive. Just transferred 1GB to the drive at ~120 MB/sec.

 

I just got a color calibration device and used it to create a color profile for my M4800. This is for the 1080p panel, which appears to be an LG LGD032C (Dell part DC9YJ). This may or may not work for others, but it helped greatly in eliminating the overly-blue tint that was bothering me before the calibration.

 

One in my backpack,
one each in my offices (with docking stations),
one at a customers site where I am frequently,
one in my living room
one spare.

At ~20EUR/power supply one can afford to distribute them at convenient spots.
... Especially if you can buy them over a period of >10 years.
Saves me from having to pull it from the backpack, wrapping/unwrapping cables, hunting for an unused wall socket. etc.pp.
Instead you just plug in the power cable and you're done.

Besides the 90W power supply and its cables is much more conveniently formed and sized when you carrying the power supply with you in your backpack. In comparison the power supplies >=130W are perfect examples of non-portability. And the 180/240W power supplies are even worse then the 130W one.

 

I tried installing all the drivers, still really slow.

What OS are you using, and what type of hard disk?

 

Quick question regarding reinstalling Windows -

I decided to give Win 8.1 another shot and did an install yesterday. Actually working fine but my computer shows ACPI x64-based computer in device manager rather than AHCI. I have the BIOS set to RAID rather than AHCI (changing it makes Windows fail to boot). Should I change it and reinstall or does it not make a difference? FWIW I swapped out the HD to a Samsung EVO SSD.

Thanks for any info provided.

 

I just installed a second mSATA SSD (Samsung Evo 500Gb) simply to use as a data drive (the OS etc is on the preinstalled 256Gb SSD) & I don't need RAID. I can't 'see' it in Windows and I remember reading somewhere that I had to make a BIOS change before it is recognised but can't find the thread anywhere. Can anyone tell me what I need to do. Many thanks