M6600 Owners Thread

Thanks and sorry for the long panic post. Just a flood of questions and wanted an answer. You think I could ask for a discount or something as well because the rep messed up?

 

Hi,finally this morning, after 29 days my order changed to production status... how many days on average from production to shipping?

 

Give this a shot. Video drivers are notoriously problematic.

Guru3D - Driver Sweeper (Setup) download from Guru3D.com

Instructions are on the page.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-latitude-vostro-precision/579210-mx600-order-status-thread.html

Is your best answer

 

Opss.. ouch.. posted on wrong thread sorry

 

Ok the keyboard has backlit or not? When I was making my order online I thought that this was included in the price...

 

It is not by default on US store. I read a similar post on this forum about someone who called to question the keyboard. It was not backlit. Luckily I had just put in my order so I called in, spoke to a rep and got my order canceled and replaced with a machine equipped with a backlit keyboard. It was $30 more.

Here is the part number on the invoice:
331-1249 1 Internal Backlit English Keyboard, Dell Mobile Precision

 

That's right; the online configurator has no provisions for selecting backlit or non-backlit keyboard and the default is non-backlit (at least in the US). Super lame. I had to call the day after I placed my order because I had doubts, and indeed, the non-backlit had been selected. I called, canceled and re-ordered with backlit and the total came out to $1 more. It's mind-bottling why they would leave that off of the configurator, and select non-backlit as the default!

(brownie points if you get the movie reference...)

 

Just awesome they can start selling it without the monitor now... I ordered mine nearly 1 month ago its about to come in and I payed it a fortune just to know now that I'll be working like a blind man during nights... Thnx Dell!

 

It has been discontinued? Can't be a good sign?