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M6600 and M4600 are coming in Feb.

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by mitchellboy, Feb 11, 2011.

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  1. Netherwind

    Netherwind Notebook Evangelist

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    What kind of battery life do you guys see out of an m4600 with a i5-2520+M5950?

    I'm worried that it'll barely live, and that I'd have to go nvidia and get a lower performing card and no linux support just to get decent battery life.
     
    Netherwind, Jun 25, 2011
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    you'll get around 3-3.5 hours
     
    afhstingray, Jun 25, 2011
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    Quadro cards have always had Linux support. They are for professional use, so a lot of people are working in a Linux environment anyway. All of my software updates come out on Linux before Win/OSX.

    If you are worried about performance get a Quad. It sounds like you are a gamer.
     
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    Optimus has no linux support, was what I was referring to, m5950 is a higher performer than the quadro 1000, hence why I was more inclined to go with it.
     
    Netherwind, Jun 26, 2011
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    Saw a few posts about battery life. I'm getting about 3 hours with a Quadro 2000M and IPS. This is on wifi while web browsing.
     
    rhyx, Jun 27, 2011
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    Let's hope that's wrong. At least the errors in Dell's Help me Choose Displays text raise my hopes for more than 60% gamut:

    'PremierColor-supported Dell Precision laptops have 100 percent color gamut coverage, which can cover 72 percent sRGB, 100 percent NTSC and 100 percent AdobeRGB'

    As sRGB is almost included within AdobeRGB this statement doesn't make sense.

    From what I've heard from a Pro Photographer colleague, the quality of the WLED FHD M4600 Display seems similar to those of the MacbPros, mostly concentrated on covering sRGB.
    From what I saw I can confirm that, but I didn't have a spectrometer on me when I had the M4600 on hands.

    sRGB would be enough as long as there is no switchable graphics solution for the 10bit IPS.

    Would be great if an owner could measure and post DeltaE and Gamut with a spectrometer like Eye one Pro or Colormunki, or maybe even a colormeter like Eye One Display.
     
    ChrisMUC, Jul 17, 2011
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    Hi,

    New possessor of Precision 4600, I would like combinate a mini ssd with the actual Hard drive, but the msata' emplacement is already in use with the WWLAN module.

    But, I have seen three emplacement inside of the 4600 : one full Mini-Card (use with WWLAN module or SSD msatat) 50mm

    And two half Mini-Card slot, one is already in use with the wifi 'module but the second is free.

    I found this ssd : MyDigitalSSD 32GB Bullet Proof mSATA Mini SATA II SSD | My Digital Discount who is apparently enough small to be ok with the free emplacement...

    Do you think that should be ok ?
     
    fructis75, Aug 4, 2011
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    as far as i know the only mSATA slot in the m4600 is the WWAN slot. you can not have a WWAN card if you wish to use mSATA
     
    afhstingray, Aug 4, 2011
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    I don't know if the BIOS would recognize the half-size card as a bootable mSATA drive. Maybe it would -- I don't know anyone that's tried it.

    I've never seen a half-size mini-card SSD (like the MyDigital one you reference) with more than 32GB. That's not even enough to run Windows 7. And the performance of them is really dismal compared to the full-size mSATA SSDs.

    But I'm assuming you want it to be a bootable SSD, like many folks use the full-size mSATA for, with an additional large storage HDD. If you just want another 32GB of (fairly slow) storage to dump stuff, is it really better than upgrading to the next size HDD?


     
    Zzyzxtek, Aug 8, 2011
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