M6600 Owners Thread

quoting myself, still on battery if anybody cares .
Now, 1 hour after my post update, i have 77% battery charge, 5h15 left. In the meantime i managed to defrag(!) my secondary harddrive and did some programming tasks in Eclipse.

M6600 autonomy is looking really good.

 

great setup......please write down your views on the laptop

 

Awesome times! Bodes very well for me, as I am getting the Nvidia Quadro 3000m.

I assume you're using Optimus, correct?

 

Wow. I had no anticipations of battery life nearly that good; since the machine I ordered is similar, I may be pleasantly surprised!

 

Update 3: Still on battery!

Brief resume: i unplugged the AC adapter at 17:00, it's 21:40 here and M6600 is up and running. 22% battery and 1h09m left.
So far the notebook has been running on battery for 4h40m.
So overall autonomy should be at least around 5h.

Stuff i did within these hours:

* Browsing on the net (just now have 18 tabs open in FFOX5 currently and 5 in Chrome)
* Downloaded stuff
* Installed some software
* 1 hour spent programming in Eclipse and running/debugging code
* Worked 30mins. with Excel spreadsheets
* Burnt 1 DVD
* Defragged a 500Gb HD partition
* Had thunderbird and MSN live open in background
* Antivirus always active in background
* Formatted my 16Gb SD card

Pretty good performance even for "casual" usage, i'm impressed.

 

Just got the EDD of 26 July. Dammit, I was promised that i'll receive the system within 3 weeks and that was a week ago. Now they are telling me to wait a whole month. This is my first dell, and now I know what people mean when they say "crappy service".

 

So am I. I'll be happy if the Firepro performs even 75% of that.

 

Ok, end of spamming.

It's 22:30 here and my M6600 has run on battery for an outstanding 5h30m now. Brilliant.
Now it's obvously complaining about battery charge: 6% and 0h25m left, it's threatening me notifying it will hibernate if i won't plug into AC any soon

Time for me to plug AC again!
Good night.

 

I've owned both the M6400 and M6500 before this machine and i have to say this is my list of
Pros: They really improved the location of fingerprint reader and the sound bar, (all the little indents would always get stuff in them) along with adding ports on the back of the laptop for HDMI and moving VGA that was good, a lot of people have said the keyboard is not as solid but it feels good to me. They got rid of the jog Shuttle (thank you dell), so many times I would turn it on without knowing and wonder why my mouse had locked up. The Screen is good I did not have the E2E so for me there is and improvement exempt for RGB and loosing some pixel height but adding another screen makes up for it.
Cons: They did move the USB 3.0 from left of panel to right (with no way to identify other than online spec sheet, or trial and error) which I will get used to.

Performance, I still need to run test will be using Autodesk Inventor and Adobe CS5 mostly I will post more. I have the beta driver (275.50) for NVidia M4000 which dropped my rating to 6.4 instead of the 7.2 the Dell installed Driver gave.
Overall WEI Rating
Processor 7.6
Memory 7.6
Graphics 6.4
Gaming graphics 6.4
Primary HD 7.7

My Machine: Precission M6600 : i7-2920xm : Quadro 4000M : 1920x1080 FHD LED Multi-Touch : 16GB-1333MHz : Intel SSD 160GB :2nd Seagate hybrid 500gb; Blue-ray RW : Intel WiMAX : EDVO

 

im not getting even 2 full hours running at balanced mode with screen brightness at lowest and keyboard illumination off. what settings did you have off/on?