M6800 Owners' Thread

Coming from a 6600 to a 6800 the difference in battery life alone is massive. I mostly get double the battery life that I used to.

I'm not sure what the difference between the 6600 and 6700 though.

Sent from my Galaxy S4 in work time... meh

 

That is kind of what I figured. The battery life of the m6700 with optimus enabled is around 8 hours idle or basic office program work.
Coming from the m6600 I figured it would be more of a jump, but since I have the m6700 I am thinking of upgrading to the K5100m. I know of people that have done the 780m with both the m6600 and m6700.

I would like the touch screen though... that is tempting.

Let's say that the prices were the same,
what benefits does the m6800 bring? Or is there nothing spectacular?

 

The should offer this with the 3,200 x 1,880 screen resolution like they do with the m3800. I know some people don't care for that but it would be an option for anyone who wants it.

Also, I know its going to be awhile but I wonder what the follow-up (next gen) is going to have/look like?

 

Just ordered mu M6800 - so excited I can't wait until it arrives.

Precision M6800 Intel Core i7-4800MQ
8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3L;
2.5 inch 500GB Solid State Hybrid Drive;
Windows 8 Pro 64-bit ;
8X DVD+/-RW Drive Tray Load;
Dell Wireless 1550 2X2 802.11ac + Bluetooth
4.0; NVIDIA Quadro K3100M w/4GB GDDR5;
Internal English Backlit Dual Pointing Keyboard; 9-cell
(97Wh) Lithium Ion battery with ExpressCharge;
240W AC Adapter; 44cm (17.3") UltraSharp
FHD(1920x1080) Wide View Anti-Glare LED-backlit Premium Panel Guarantee;



Anyone ever used these hybrid SSDs before? I will be reusing my 256gb ssd from my e6420 as the OS drive if it's faster than the hybrid, then put the hybrid in the second sata bay for storage. Can anyone comment?
And can you get a CD bay battery for them?

Thanks!

 

The SSD will be much faster than the hybrid drive.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

That's what I thought, its basically the same as having an mSATA for caching right?

 

And should I do all the driver and bios updates on Dell's site? Does anyone know of the cpu issue noted on notebookcheck has been fixed by any updates?

Thanks

 

The hybrid drive caches the most frequently used items on the hard drive into its flash modules. Generally this is used for those that only have one drive as having it is somewhat redundant with an SSD, one could simply put the main used programs on the SSD itself.
It would also be helpful to check if all the drive bays on the m6800 run at SATA III speeds. I believe they all do, but if the secondary drive bay was only limited to SATA II, then the hybrid's speed would be neutered almost to the point of it not being worth it.

As for the bios and driver updates, I don't know which particular CPU issue you are referring to, but the BIOS upgrades are generally recommended since they correct "teething" problems especially at first. Your order is also a later one so you may get a current bios.

 

Notebookcheck says:

In the Cinebench R10 64-bit, we measure 6,665 points (single thread) and 21,426 points (multithread), which is quite a bit lower than the 7,112 points (single thread) and 27,537 points (multithread) of the i7-4900MQ in the Dell Precision M4800. This is a much larger difference than we would expect to see as the core clock speed differs by a mere 100 MHz. The Alienware 17 scores much better with the Intel Core i7-4800MQ: 7,051 points (single thread) and 25,111 points (multithread). This is in the region of what we would expect from our test model.

"The HWinfo64 tool offers a possible explanation: as soon as the CPU processes multithreaded tasks, the core temperature reaches a constant 98 °C (208.4 °F) and is tagged with the throttling icon. In the CPU load test using Prime95, the clock speeds fluctuate right off the bat between 2.4 - 2.8 GHz (later with FurMark: between 2.1 and 2.5 GHz). We used the "Ultra Performance" profile (max fan levels) for our tests. It appears the cooling system is not capable of keeping the CPU temperature in control. This is a little surprising as the Precision M4800 with the Intel Core i7-4900MQ (47 Watt TDP) and the predecessor the Precision M6700 with the Intel Core i7-3920XM (55 Watt TDP) do not have such problems. We believe that this issue could be limited to our test model or the cooling system is not working as expected. If possible, we will check this again using a different configuration in a test update.

Overall, the performance during normal use and in CAD is very good, but the CPU performance is decidedly weaker due to its multithread weakness. This is noticeable in benchmarks as well as in programs that utilize multithreading."

Review Dell Precision M6800 Notebook - NotebookCheck.net Reviews

 

Does anyone have benchmarks with the Firepro M6100?

Also, is anyone having luck negotiating below web price on either a quick-ship or full-custom order?