M6600 Owner's Review - Warning - Large pics - Personal Opinions

Removing The Keyboard

Dell™ Precision™ M6600 Owner's Manual

You dont need a screwdriver for removing the keyboard bezel made of plastic.
Just do it carefully with your fingers; it will work, I did it to install additional RAM.

Ultra Slim with 9,5mm height.

 

Thank you. +Rep!

 

Couple of things.

You should only have to remove the battery, two phillips screws, and the back panel to access the mSata or either of the 2.5" bays. The back panel just slides and then lifts once you remove the screws.

I would suggest that you never use a metal flat head screwdriver to remove any panels. Metal is conductive and can scratch. You can get plastic pry tools that accomplish the same tasks with less risk or breakage. If you you really in a pinch, use something like a guitar pick.

 

I just want to add how to remove the keyboard trim crowd.

I removed my M4600 keyboard trim in order to install 2 sticks of RAM. It should be the same as M6600. I did it entirely with my fingers. What you do is start at the left and right hand side of the keyboard/laptop edge. If you look at the sides, you should see a bit of space/crack between the keyboard trim and your laptop chasis. All you need to do is get your finger or finger nail in between and gently pry the keyboard trim upward. You should be able to get your keyboard trim out fairly easily. Once I have the left and right side edges out, I gently lift out the top and bottom portion of the keyboard trim. It is made of plastic so be careful and don't use too much force. I also would not advise using a screw driver as that's not necessary, just fingers will do really.

You can follow the instruction and remove the top portion of the keyboard trim if you wish. I found it was easier for me to start at the sides, then go back to top. It just might be my laptop's top keyboard trim was very securely snapped in so I had more difficulty in removing it initially.

 

Thank you,

I've gotten some confidence, as prying out plastic stuff I also do with my Clevo as well.

I will probably take the upgrade to the quad-core just to utilize the 4 dimms.

 

Latency usually sits between 140-170 with occasional spikes up to around 250. Highest latency as reported by DPC latency checker over a 1 minute period is 263. I am seeing no difference between having the Intel 6250 wireless card in or out of the machine.

The biggest thing that was affecting the latency was the software running on the machine. My *guess* is that with a very lean build of Windows 7, I could get it down to the 90 -130 range. I just don't have a need for that.

 

Hello, could you tell me the name of the firewire chipset? I need to know if it's a texas instruments.

 

It is the O2Micro.

Scott-

 

Ok, thanks.

Is it possible to change the firewire chipset for the texas instruments?

 

How should it be done? This is not possible.