M6600 Owners Thread

You can PM a NBR member called Aikimox. His web-store in Canada called Fortnax does do custom orders of the Precision M6600 and he could help you out on getting a RAID-equipped system and international shipping I think.

Precision M6600

 

Can someone with a m6600 let me know if you can still use the Fn + Shift 15324 then Fn + R ? I dropped my m6500 and its getting replaced with one and its almost always docked and cpu at 100% so this trick helps out my poor cpu from frying itself.

Shipping with i72720QM, firepro M8900, 12gb ddr3 1333 and the FHD WLED lcd.

 

Please feel free to inform us about your process.
Maybe you can post some "how to do" instructions.
I want to do the same but I have absolutely no idea how to move the internal components from a 5730S into a 9.5mm Ultra-Slim housing.
It would be great if you let us know how this works.

 

Thanks man!

I have a few question about this before purchase.

1) can you use the fingerprint sensor to fill HDD passwords, power-on password and windows password on one swipe?
2) can you do this via an external USB fingerprint sensor?
3) do you have to order with raid, or can you turn it on on all systems?
4) 2x intel 510 raid 0 without any trouble?
6) can you have fans under a control like TPfancontrol on Lenovo? I hate them switching on/off constantly
7) any significant problems with M6600 so far? With W520 I have there are plenty...

 

Can anybody tell if the fans are running with Optimus activated when in idle mode?

I'm thinking about buying this machine but I want to have a completely silent system when using an SSD and doing just office things and web browsing.

The Alienware x17m r3 offers a completely noiseless system when idle, but I don't like gaming machines with glossy displays.

 

I can confirm that when idling, the only noise I can hear from my M6600 comes from the 2 HDDs spinning.

 

Thanks.

I had a look at Dell's site and only saw 3rd party eSata HD including my Lacie 4TB 4big Quadra for $753. No point in me asking for one of these as they don't work with M6600 and I'm now sitting with a very expensive paperweight and more importantly a big headache getting ~300GB of files from my Lacie onto M6600 (and using the Lacie as daily backup of M6600).

Lacie has USB 2 but that is very slow and USB 2 was NOT the plan.

I did not see any Dell external eSata? Only 3rd party, Lacie, etc.
What is your Dell eSata model number? Link?

Thanks again.

 

If you have internal RAID your eSata will not work. See previous posts.

 

See multiple recent posts on background static noise (not fan noise).

 

I feel your pain - my drive is 2x 2TB worth of source videos that I was planning to connect via eSATA; luckily the WD Studio II enclosure that holds them also has FireWire connection which is slightly faster than USB 2.0 (yet not even close to eSATA, of course).

However the fact is that the optical drive enclosure (Dell e-media bay) I got form Dell is working OK. Interestingly, it doesn't need external power source - it's powered by the port itself. I haven't found the model number apart from what is written on the label (not found on Dell pages, though): model number PD02S.

So, even with SATA operation set to RAID, the eSATA port can be functional - it's good to know though it doesn't actually work with Lacie, not just my WD. We need to file a case on this - maybe some future BIOS release will solve the problem?

Piotr