M6600 Owners Thread

I meant the dock. The dock Dell is still selling for the M6600 was released when the M6400 was released, so it was on USB 2.0. The M6600 itself has 2 USB 3.0 and any M6500 manufactured after March of 2010.

 

Intel refused to include USB 3 in their chipset. This means all USB 3 implementations have to be added on. Most docks are just port pass-throughs from the motherboard.

You also have the issue of the dock having physically different connectors for USB 3 which the E-Dock does not have. Remember, Dell promises Enterprise customers that Docks will last through several models so that replacements for peripherals can be planned.

Intel is including USB 3 in their next chipset. Dell has 3 models under the E Series which came out in 2008. The C and D series both lasted 5 years and had 4 models. My guess is that if they follow the same schedule, there will be one more E series release. But - they can always update the Docks to include new technology.

 

I am honestly not sure of why you are getting a Kelvin reading that high. I have never seen anything like that unless someone was running double color profiles - and that is a software issue. Is this reading on a Dell factory Windows 7 installation with no extra software than the Spyder app?

 

Pulled my 80gb Intel X25-M SSD from my M6500 and tested it. I am getting 262.1 mb/sec in the M6600 which is faster than the M6500. Both machines in AHCI.

Just to be safe, I tested the X25-M in both of the 2.5" slots on the M6600. The results were identical. I boot from the mSSD, so the testing should be sound.

Is there a chance that your cache settings are off?

 

Yeah, I was surprised at how high the reading was as well. It's not a factory install, I did a clean re-install from supplied Win7 x64 pro media when I installed a new SSD. The only non-standard part is that I'm running Catalyst 11.5b hotfix drivers (from AMD) instead of the stock Firepro drivers.

I'm pretty sure it's not double profiled though (how would you tell??) - when I turn off the colour profile with the Spyder3 utility it really _is_ very blue.

Could you possibly check your HWinfo output to see what panel your non-touchscreen M6600 is? This one is an LGD020DA, model VCV1F€173WF1 . If yours is the same I might try the stock Firepro drivers, I can't see how your quadro would drive the screen so differently to the firepro though...



Cheers,

J

 

Just got the confirmation that my M6600 has in fact been received but I'll have to wait till tomorrow to get my hand on it.

Will be uploading pics and benchmarks soon.

btw I tried to ask around if someone i know had spyder calibrating tool but it turn out most of them didn't even know what it was. In addition to this it's a hard one to get in the city. Any other calibrating app you might wanna suggest?

 

Amazon

Amazon.com: Spyder 3 Elite: Electronics

B&H

Datacolor Spyder3Elite Display Calibration System DC S3EL100 B&H

 

Amazon doesn't ship anything but books to india not sure about the other one though.

 

Anyone with sequential read/write numbers for RAID 1 Dual Seagate 750GB (Stock DELL M6600) please post. Thanks.

Given that the 750GB specs are significantly faster than the 500GB is there likely to be a performance increase on going from 750GB to 1TB?

I assume the M6600 HDs must be 9.5mm height?

 

Just for fun the hardware people here put the M6600 into Extended Battery Life power mode, set it to min brightness, and loaded up "The Drudge Report" website (since it auto-refreshes) and left it running. It shut down after a little over 9 hours.

Normal battery run times with the 2620M and Quadro 3000M on this machine are around 6 hours of heavy web use.

Using HWInfo64 to watch power usage, we are seeing 8-13 watts of power most of the time. When we go to a page with certain types of video streaming ads, the power usage goes up to 24-26 watts. Normal flash ads do not cause the Quadro to kick in - just the video ones.

If you take the 97whr of the battery and divide by power draw, you get the estimated run times. If you run ad blocking software you can expect to get 7.4 - 10 hours of runtime. If you watch videos or let all ads run, you are looking at 3.75 to 4.5 hours of runtime.