M6600 Owners Thread

that was for US customers only and a limited period offer. I think it must be expired by now.

 

Personally I like the sound from M6600. Although it lacks bass, the sound is clear and loud. (Cannot be compared to xps 15 though)

As for the display you can refer to - http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-latitude-vostro-precision/580712-m6600-owners-thread-46.html

 

A bit tinny vs. the M6500 but not as bad or drastically severe that I couldn't tolerate it.

Also, the display is good for a WLED, one of the best I have used, but it is not as good as RGBLED or e-IPS.

 

hey will there be significant difference while using 3d applications with 8900m and 6970 m??

 

Would someone measure the actual dimensions of the M6600 screen for me? I'm most interested in the height. On my HP dv8000 I've got around 9-1/4 inches.

I was thinking seriously of getting the M6500 with its great 16:10 aspect screen, then this M6600 down grade occurred. Don't know what to do. Other than that $3000+ HP Elite it doesn't look like one can do anything about it.

 

Hi all,

I'd really appreciate it if a couple of people could post the details of the WLED panels on their M6600's as determined from HWinfo or similar, and also the native whitepoint if you're lucky enough to have a hardware profiler of some sort.

I'm trying to get to the bottom of why Bokeh seems to have panels with native whitepoints of between 6500K and 6900K, whereas the one I have has a native whitepoint measured at nearly 10,000K with a Spyder 3 Elite.

I'm suspecting there may be a couple of different panels kicking around, even within the touchscreen/non-ts categories.

The reason it's kind of important to me is that even though I can profile the screen and largely compensate for the default very blue nature of the screen doing so has two major disadvantages:

1. the gamut is reduced by trying the bend the panel's white point towards 6500
2. anything full screen DirectX will instantly drop the LUT loaded into the video card and the whole thing reverts to it's very blue look. This makes gaming less enjoyable than it might otherwise be. I've found some tools that can help get around this (PowerStrip, by constantly re-loading a specified LUT, and Color Clutch which works by intercepting specific DirectX calls that reset the LUT, but only for games that allow run-time modification of specific dll's. Otherwise you can sometimes use a fullscreen windowed mode at the cost of some performance (e.g. for StarCraft II)

For reference, my panel is identified as Monitor\LGD02DA, VCV1F€173WF1, and as far as I can tell has a native whitepoint of about 9800K.

For anyone else with the same panel, here is a link to the profile created: M6600-6500-2.2-120.icm which should be used with a brightness of 5 or 6 "notches" up from 0 on the screen.

If you're after an easy profile loader I think the ColorVision profile chooser available from here should do the trick.

Cheers,

J

 

I agree with your sentiment.
M6600 screen height: 8.5" or 21.5cm

 

Its about 380mm x 215mm.

Cheers,

 

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you.

Monitor Name: H8D3K€B173HW1
Monitor Hardware ID: Monitor\AUO159D

Both of the ones I have are AUO B173HW1 panels.

I am still baffled by how blue your panel is. I keep thinking maybe its a color setting in the ATI software.

 

Run this test for me. In a room with 1 source of light (no mixing a lamp and fluorescent, and sunlight - just one source) boot into the BIOS by hitting F12 when the machine boots.

Click on Battery Info. This way you have White, Gray, Red, Yellow, Green on the screen.

With a white piece of paper next to the screen (to serve as a reference for the whitepoint) take a digital photo of the Bios screen.

Now boot the computer into Windows and disable the color calibration. Open up something White like a blank Word document and retake the picture with the same brightness and camera settings.

That is the only want to really know if the white point is native to the panel or being changed by software.