M6600 Owners Thread

Thanks for the reply... I'll try what you suggested ASAP.

The fact that we obviously have very different panels is a start though ;-)

Cheers,

 

If you're an anim student I'd get the Quadro. Even if you just want to be an animator you might get a rig with animated normal/displacement that is slowly becoming more prominent in feature pipelines for you to visually work with.

If you want to do anything other than animating the Quadro will help you out a lot.

I'm not really sure what in Nuke is CUDA accelerated. I know the 3DLut is, but that's the only thing I've seen in tooltips. We had some CUDA tools at work, but you probably won't get that unless you're at a studio. I have been having to force Maya to open (right click > start with GPU), which is less than ideal. Hopefully they'll fix that with drivers.

 

hi thks for the input ...but after going through the prices q3000m is out of my budget .....i have to be content with 8900m which i hope wont be too bad

 

I got the same panel as you VCV1F€173WF1. Don't have any spyder 3 so can't tell the native whitepoint, will try bokeh's method (btw thanks for that).

 

Hi,

here's the pics showing

1. the battery screen
2. a closeup of the left white panel to get a better idea of the "white"
3. an image from the unprofiled desktop
4. an image from the profiled desktop

exposure was locked across all pics (35mm f/2 ISO800 1/400th fluorescent WB - light in the room is a "100watt equivalent" energy saver, apparently 2700K)









not the most interesting pics, but as far as I can see the uncalibrated display looks pretty close to the bios images.

From my earlier post you can see the white level / contrast measured at different brightnesses by the Spyder profiler...

What do you think are the odds that Dell would replace this panel with an AUO model? It really is pretty annoying given that the screen otherwise does a pretty good job of sRGB which is what I was happy to settle for.

Cheers,

J

 

Thanks for checking mido_ban!

 

I honestly don't know what to say about it. It does seem to be very blue and seems to be that way in the Bios.

I will duplicate your tests and photos with the AUO.

 

Thanks LLavelle & colvilj (for the info on screen height). That's about 0.85 in bigger than my new Dell Lat E6510 and 0.75 in smaller than my old hp dv8000.

 

My display is very cool. Especially when compared next to my Dell u2410. Neither are calibrated, though.

 

Before my Tech murdered my M6600, the default programmed temperature was on the cool side for me, unlike other LCD's I used which the OEM's programmed in a very warm color hue in the temperature sensor.