M6600 Owners Thread

I seriously doubt the Multi-Touch w/Stylus screen is Wacom quality of 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity. But it might be good enough for most Photoshop work that I do. I listened to Scott Kelby say that he didn’t use the muti pressure in is Wacom table either. Before you color calibrate the multi-touch screen is had has a blue tint. I haven’t had any issues yet with yellow tint. It is a very bright screen; I’m running about 30-40% of max brightness.

Compared to my T61p laptop the M6600 is a huge. The Multi-Touch screen does make the laptop slightly thicker. You can clearly see it in Bokeh excellent review. It’s the best review for the M6600 that I have seen.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...iew-warning-large-pics-personal-opinions.html

I have had two surprises with the screen.
1) How much fun it is to surf the web; swipe left or right to go back or forward. On Facebook to advance to the next picture just touch the screen. It’s great. At work, my Clients naturally want to touch my screen. So when they touch the screen now, it actually does something. They seem to get a kick out of it.
2) Most importantly it really easy to resized text or windows to a size that works for you. This works well when surfing the web to make the font to a readable size. I usually have two windows open side by side so this is huge for me.

Besides not being 10bit the HUGE downside is the Multi-touch screen is high glare. I think it’s what killing my eyes.

 

I recently bought a SCAN 3XS Workstation. A very nice piece of kit. BUT I had an OCX Vertex 2 128GB SSD and it up within a week. I upgraded the Bios (something you need to keep on top of with SSDs) and it worked for 2 dyas and then died completely. I then installed a Corsair Force 3 and it has been perfect. Quite a bit faster as well. WIN 7 system boots in 11 secs (that is including the Acronis 2012 Boot loader) and loads 3DS MAX 2012 in 12secs.

 

I see you use pshop but are there any other programs you have used with the touch such as cad or 3d modeling programs

You say huge downside but would you recommend the touch and how is the color gamut working for you is it enough or do you want more and not pressure sensitivity but how precise can you get it with the stylus does it get can you get 1 pix accuracy in pshop at 300dpi and how close at 1200dpi

 

Has anyone found a ssd other than the one from dell that fits and works in the msata slot

btw badgerballs is the best name ever

 

Dell - like everyone else these days - uses the N-Trug Duosense panels (please correct me if I'm wrong; I don't have a touchscreen model to lookup the model ID for).

N-Trig publishes their specifications online:

http://www.n-trig.com/Data/Uploads/Misc/DuoSense Digitizer final version_2.pdf

Specially, for using the Pen:

Position report rate 133 Hz
Position accuracy ± 0.4 mm (vertically held)
Resolution >400 dpi
Position jitter ± 0.4 mm (vertically held)
Pressure sensitivity 256 levels

 

I bought it, but not working on our Dell Mx600 series.
I have now a Renice X3 120GB mSATA drive, working fine.

 

There is a selection on Newegg... just search for "msata".

 

So a post mentioned that there are deals in January. What kind of discounts can we expect to see? And do we buy precision laptops the same way as mentioned in the alienware discount thread? (basically call in and haggle)

 

I was on chat with sales, and he "asked his manager' and got me another $50 off. That is not much, but it is something.

 

the cooler and the pipes are the same in i7 and i5 version ?