M6800 Owners' Thread

Sorry, it's only now that I noticed your desktop monitor in the signature. Well, I don't know, maybe you're right and DC is better than the ZR24W (it certainly was considerably more expensive as well). It definitely is better if you need a wide gamut screen. Unless you do, however, I'd take the color uniformity and advanced controls of a moderately-priced desktop IPS any time (esp. one of the older generation CCFL's and their gorgeous whites).

 

After what has been the worst ordering process in my life, I finally got a fedex tracking number, with delivery tomorrow (even though I was told today). The original order was supposed to be here by the 17th, but then was postponed to the 19th, then to the 24th. I called them, and told them that that was not ok, and so they got me a better price on one of the preconfigured units that was basically the same. I payed 45 bucks or so less for this than the original one, and wound up with 3 years of accidental damage protection in addition to the 3 of prosupport I already had. The only downside is that it has the dell wireless card, and a 500GB hybrid drive instead of the 1TB hybrid drive I wanted, but those are relatively easy and cheap fixes if I have a problem with the dell card or need the extra space. I don't think space will be a problem though, cause once I get my mSATA SSD, I'll have 1.5TB of hard drive space, plus the ssd, which should be more than enough (I have a 1TB HDD already).

 

Yeah don't sweat the small details, almost any part can be replaced later. Plus the accidental coverage is a good bargain.
But it is good that it should be arriving tomorrow. Enjoy!

 

Well it came this morning, and so far, I really like it. I'm just now getting windows set up and ready to go on it on the SSD I had, so I haven't messed with it but so much. That being said, the build quality is such a nice change from my sager 8170. The screen not bending when you open it really inspires confidence. Also, having battery life again, let alone 4-5 hours, is pretty great. It's way more than I've ever had in a laptop before. I ran a few GPU benchmarks, and it appears to be about equal to or slightly better than a 770m for gaming and the like, which is about what I expected, so that's good.

I have the Chi Mei panel as well, which seems ok to me. I don't notice any screen door effect or grainy effect. However, if anyone has the same panel and has calibrated theirs, I would be interested in the color profile. I know it won't be exact, but it'll probably be better than the default.

EDIT: I found a profile for the screen over on the asus ROG forum, as I guess this screen was/is in those notebooks as well. It looks a lot better now, and very similar in temperature and tone to my ASUS IPS desktop display (not saying it's as good cause it's not, but just less blue than it was). If anyone else is interested in the profile, I can post a link.

 

Hi

Does anyone know if the non touch screen in the M6800 would be as good or better than the screen that came in the Dell Precision M90 Laptop? I have a M90 and the screen isn't too bad so I was wondering it this would be comparable to the screen they have in the M6800

Also if you had a choice would you go with Touch or non - touch and windows 7 Ultimatte or Windows 8.1 Pro

Thanks,
Jason

 

The new screen will be far superior. That is back when they used CCFL screens.
If you have the choice I would go with the touch screen, especially with Windows 8. If you don't use the touch it is always a good selling point later.

 

If you are ok with the extra cost, and like glossy screens, or don't care about glossy or matte, then get the touch. If you like matte more, then that may be something to factor in to the decision as well.

 

As Spring and TriBeard say...

 

So I saw in the notebook check review that they adjusted fan profiles. I can't seem to find the application that will let me do that. Does anyone know the name of it, or where to find it?

I also noticed that when I forgot to install the intel graphics drivers and just installed the AMD ones, I had a lot more options like adjusting color temperature and stuff like that from catalyst control center. Now that I have both installed, most all of those options are missing. Is that just the way it is, or did I do something wrong?

 

They did not control the fan directly, only chose different modes from the "power options" that inherently have fan profiles programmed in. e.g. "Quiet" minimizes the fan use, whereas "ultra Performance" maxes the fans.
There may be other programs that enable the control of the fans, but which ones work on this unit I don't know.

That is normal with the graphics.
Basically when you don't install the Intel drivers first, the Intel graphics are disabled, and the AMD card is used as the primary graphics adapter, and thus the options pertaining to the AMD card are available since it is running all the time. Installing the Intel drivers makes the Intel device primary and the AMD subject to the Intel graphics. This is what enables the use of Enduro, as the discrete card is effectively "shut down," and the computer uses the Intel graphics for most things. Even when the discrete card does get used, it is still sent through the Intel card.

In either case, the Intel graphics are always "master" in the effect that the discrete card is permanently routed through the Intel card via the motherboard to allow the use of enduro/optimus. That is why the IPS on the m6700 (which had to bypass the Intel card since it does not support 10 bit displays) had to have a separate port on the mother board that routed directly to the discrete card. The M6800 does not have the option on the motherboard, and the IPS is not available.