M6600 Owners Thread

There's nothing sacred about the old aspect ratio since it just comes from TV monitors--did you know they were round at one time?

Anyway, replacing them just makes for a better use of material. The previous ratio wasn't "better", it was just different.

Yes, this is a glaring omission that should have been addressed by the time you get to a machine of this caliber.

These are gone and they're not coming back.

Not necessarily. AW may be owned by Dell, but I hear they operate independently. At least that's what they claim.

You pretty much summed it up right here. Maybe this should become a sticky since people keep asking about it over and over?

Wow! You don't play around do you? That is one serious card at a serious price!

 

Round monitors??? Any proof?

Of course 1920 x 1200 was better than 1920 x 1080 in some cases. It was, is and would be better for people using apps which cannot make much use of more horizontal space and which take up a minimum vertical space.

Take Office where you have either command bars or the Ribbon at the top and your text below. For me it is Visual Studio with my source code. Text lines just don't "scale" well. Making them longer and longer to see more written text on one screen makes it harder to find the next line of text when you switch. I guess that's why newspapers and books and online text is portrait oriented, so rather a ratio of 7:10 than 16:9.

So why would "better" be the wrong word when one option is more appropriate than another.

No, that is not an omission - it is just different

 

I the US TV's originally had round or oval screens.
Here is an old 1949 admiral
YouTube - ‪1949 Admiral TV‬‏

 

Hey there,

first let me say: great thread, so many information...much appreciated.

as a XPS M1710 owner (i know, old stuff ^^) i´m currently (for the last two months to be exact) looking for a new machine to replace this 5 year old buddy.

i went from clevo 170HM over to asus G73/G74 over to alienware M17Xr3 and now "finally" arrived at the M6600.

bottom line...i just can´t decide...yet.

so here are a few questions i have regarding the M6600:

one reviewer of the M4600 here in this forum stated that the soundquality from those internal speakers is pretty bad.
since his problem could be solved using external speakers via line-out or spdif he stated that a) theres no spdif-out?! and b) the quality from line-out via headphones was also quite terribly...so whats your opinion?

second question: since the alienware m17Xr3 has a hdmi-in (which i dont need pretty bad but more like a nice-to-have-feature) i was wondering if the M6600 has one too.

thats all for now i guess, thanks

 

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Anyone know if it would possible to replace the stock Dell keyboard with a better one?

Like figuring out a way of fitting in the ibm Thinkpad keyboards into one of these?

 

Does anyone know for sure the expansion Bus Type. it is listed as "PCI 2.3, PCI Express 1.0, SATA 1.0A and 2.0, USB 2.0" in the manual. Maybe I am reading it wrong. You can order on Dell as SATA 3. Can anyone clarify? Thanks.

 

Tech manual.

Just in case anyone is interested. This is the link to the service manual for the M6600.

Documentation

Here's a more direct link.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/wsm6600/en/SM/index.html


It's labelled as "Owner's Manual" under the HTML column. It provides pretty decent step by step instructions for all major components.

It is also available in other languages below.

Documentation


-J

 

In other languages you will only find "Setup and Features Information Tech Sheet", so do not even bother.
The one in "English" section is exactly what we are talking about. Nice document - big thanks.

 

Can some1 tell me how much a m6600 weighs? I found this information in the "Setup and Features Information Tech Sheet" > 3.42 kg (7.53 lb with 6–
cell battery and airbay)

But I'd like to know how much it weighs with a 9 cell battery? Is it over 4kg? And what about the AC adapter the dimensions seem huge bit its rather tin just 1inch...