M6600 Owners Thread

The 15.6" display is 60%. The 1600x900 17.3" display is also 60%.

I have multiple sources that have confirmed that all M6600 1920x1080 displays are at least 72% color gamut and fully cover sRGB.

 

Just got a M6600 yesterday - I got one of the standard configuration "fast ship" models. It seems like a great laptop, however, I noticed two problems. 1) They shipped Windows 7 Home Premium, not professional as stated on the website. It also looks like I got a fingerprint reader blank instead of a fingerprint reader.

Can anyone confirm that I have a blank? Where I am looking for a little metal strip for the swipe reader, I just see a black plastic thing. I just want to make sure this isn't some new technology fingerprint reader. When I install the fingerprint reader drivers, they don't see any hardware.

Also, people are talking about their displays - mine says it is an LG display.

 

Ordered my M6600 8/25/11 and just got it today 8/31/11 (with customizations). Sweet!

Booted it up to look at the screen.... foggy. I got Chi Mei'd. Its strange because it looks like the screen itself is working fine underneath but whatever they put on top of it to make it matte instead of glossy got screwed up. The matte layer looks like a thin layer of glittery fog that messes with your eyes.

I'm going to call tech support tomorrow and see if I can get the screen replaced with the LG or AU versions.

Chi Mei'd (verb, past tense)
1. to be promised a premium LCD panel in a laptop order but find out it was replaced with a cheap or unsatisfactory part.
2. to be let down by the quality of a laptop screen

 

Wow, you got lucky on the production speed. Too bad you were Chi Mei'd...

My order from the 24th is still in production.

Scott-

 

Can you please get pictures for us? I have not seen how these screens look yet.

 

These are pics of the CMO panel installed in a Dell L702x, which first raised a red flag for me. They use to install the AUO panels in that model as well, but now it is the excessively dull and washedout CMO panels like we are seeing on the M6600. Dell must have got a good deal on these and are trying to dump them.





Scott

 

I just got my M6600 and Crucial M4 256GB SSD. How do I go about installing it? I have a 500gb drive in it - can i keep it as a second drive and use the ssd as a book primary drive?

 

My suggestion would be this:

1) Remove your current HDD and install the M4 SSD where it the original HDD was.
2) Using the dell Windows 7 DVD, boot to the DVD drive and do a Custom (clean) install of Windows 7. If your M6600 does not boot to the DVD drive then hit F12 when the bios loading screen appears after a restart and move the DVD drive to the first boot priority.
3) After Windows 7 is installed and updated. Shut your computer down and put the original HDD in the other hard drive bay.
4) Boot up the laptop. If it boots into the old copy of windows 7 (not your clean one) then shut down, restart, hit F12 again to bring up the boot options, and swap the places of the two Hard Drive options listed. Reboot again.
5) You should see the original HDD listed in windows (probably as drive D or E). My suggestion would be to make sure all your old files are backed up and then format this drive to wipe it clean.

You can move the old HDD to the second slot before installing windows 7, just make sure you install the new copy of Windows to the right drive and your boot sequence is set ahead of time. You can format the second (original HDD) right from the windows set up screen even if you aren't installing it there. Don't leave it unformatted when installing to the new SSD or you may suddenly get a dual boot option on start up.

 

Yep, I think that's pretty much the same as what I'm seeing. Its really hard to show in a picture. The contrast is not very good and like I said before, its as if a thin sparkly fog is over the entire thing. Its just good enough that your typical of the street laptop buyer might not notice anything other than it almost looks slightly out of focus. But if you put it next to a laptop with a good screen (even my four year old HP dv9700) then you see really fast that its fuzzy looking.

I can read text on it without a problem, but graphics just look 100% lackluster.

 

Freeman... - You have a fingerprint reader, I had the same one and it works fairly well. On first boot, you can also setup the reader to test how it works. For me, I prefer the FIPS due to no misreads or errors (at one time I was locked out for a good half an hour due to misreads...).

Ben21 - You should be able to keep the 500 as a secondary drive with no problems. As for installation (if you will clone the drive): 1)boot the system with the original drive and be sure AHCI is turned on in the bios for the drive (this will allow the system to see the drive). 2)Then just swap the hdd for the ssd and install the 500gb drive in the second hdd slot. 3) And format the second hdd and you should be all set.