M6600 Owners Thread

I am not questioning their support, I have had good and bad encounters with both companies as far as support goes.

I am questioning Dells policy of calling the M6600 a "premium" system while trying to slide in sub-par displays trying to cut corners or fill order quicker.

I would rather have a system back-ordered two extra weeks and get a GOOD display rather than fighting a cheap junk display while trying to do my work.

 

On that account you are absolutely right. With system like the dell M6600 should not have tried this cheap trick. This is not an entry level N5110...

So dell gets 2 points abstracted for the cheap trick, from which one is paroled for good support...

 

I just had a flickering screen, then screen turned black and the sound went away too. Looked like a black death. I pushed the power second for a few seconds and turned the machine off. I turned it on it came back from hibernation all programs running and everything fine. Is this software or hardware, what do you think? I remember some black screen from here but I dont remember when it was written. I hope not my main board... I was playing a coh mod (blitzkrieg) which can crash but never did like this (and really it was not crushing as the game was running after coming back from hibernation with the game I played).

 

A few updates/questions.

Sapphire Trixx shows my gpu as the m8900.

What external sound card would be the best in performance and price to get?

For anyone with questions on gaming/development software, I have not hit a wall in gpu optimization (ie falling short or stuttering).

Also my max clock speeds for the m8900 is 800/1000 to be 100% stable.

 

Hi,
i´m from Germany and place my order 7 days ago and expect delivery next monday (29.Aug) .
Part of my order is:
Display : 17.3in Ultrasharp FHD (1920x1080) LED-backlit LCD Panel -> Dell Articel: 230-11984
Hope that´s the right one ...

 

Ja dann drück ich dir ganz fest die Daumen, dass du ein vernünftiges Display bekommst, also eine non-Chi-Mei Display Variante. Ich bin mit dem ersetzten Au Optronics sehr zufrieden. Hab selbige Marke auch in meinem HP EliteBook 2540p verbaut.

 

So I have a new M6600 currently on order and here is what Mine reads:

Dell Item Code: 320-1925

17.3" UltraSharp FHD(1920x1080) Wide View Anti-Glare LED-backlit with Premium Panel Guarantee

Different Item code for me, does the item code really have anything to do with what screen manufacturer it is? Whether it be AU or Chi-Mei?

 

Your code is correct for North American orders and it does not guarantee anything in regards to the manufacturer of the panel you will receive. Lately, their description and what is showing up are two different things so it is a lottery situation right now.

I have ordered a third M6600 due to arrive around the 9th of next month and will see what it has in it then. To recap-

First and current M6600 - AUO v.5 (late July)
Second and returned M6600 - CMO CL11 (mid August)
Third M6600 on order - ????? (early September)

Scott-

 

You don't want the HP. Believe me. This BS Dell is pulling with the displays is just that-BS. It's stupid and asinine and moronic and everything else. And it's liable to cost them customers. But at least-panel quality nonwithstanding-the Dell is a solid machine.

The HP, on the other hand... Well... heh. Yeah. IPS display aside, the 8760w is a joke. Anandtech just posted a review of it: AnandTech - HP EliteBook 8760w: Color, So Dreamy

Take a look at the cooling setup (what little of it that you can see) from the image gallery over there; here's a link: http://images.anandtech.com/galleries/1328/g-internals.jpg

I was reading the 8760w owner's lounge thread here and found a link to the service manual (which I no longer have handy). The entire cooling system is roughly half the size of the setup in the Dell. The result? 92*C on the CPU, 78*C on the GPU using who-knows-what to load them up.

Yes, the $650 Dreamcolor display is very nice. There's no two ways about it. But you pay about $1000 more for an identically-configured HP than you do for the Dell, and the price of the screen is tacked on on top of that. And what you're getting for your money is basically your standard poorly engineered, low-quality HP (do they make any other kind of HP? Did they ever? I mean my dad's got one of their reverse polish notation calculators that's pretty solid but since then...?) with a very nice display attached to it.

It looks like you give up two mini-PCIe slots to the Dell (although they may be under the keyboard), you lose Optimus entirely, and you get a cooling system so poorly thought out that it would make Steve Jobs proud. And they call this a mobile workstation? Riiiiight. It's a consumer-level POS with a nice screen and an expensive graphics card.

What I'm trying to say is that it's easier to fix the bad parts with the Dell (the screen) than it is to fix the bad parts with the HP (everything else).

That's my $0.02, at least.

 

I read the review as well. Still can't figure out how Anandtech choses the computers they compared the HP to.

I came away with the same heat concerns. I have seen and documented that the cooling in the M6600 is massively overbuilt. The HP seems to be running very hot. The bottom line is someone at Dell cared about getting the cooling right, HP didn't.

Once the IPS and Quadro 5010M become available on the M6600 (all signs point to late Sept) the HP will be even less compelling.

Lots of customer service complaints about HP in the comments of that article as well. Someone waited 3 months, got the wrong parts, and HP said "tough, send it back if you don't want it".