M6800 Owners' Thread

not yet, but I assume someone may make that adapter when there is more need. no mobile hdmi 2.0 is heard either. there was a thread about this matter.

 

as someone who used a TV for a monitor for a while, it's not all it's cracked up to be. The high end TV's are better, but they are really made to be viewed from further away than 3ish feet that you get when you're at a typical desk. Now, if it's something for the living room, that's a whole different story. If you want something to use on your desk though, I would really go with a monitor. Asus has a decent 27" 4k monitor, and I think dell has one as well, just be careful that you don't get the one that only does 30hz refresh.

 

What are the issues of such tv as a monitor? The resolution obviously isn't a problem with 4k. 60Hz refresh rate should make it quite good for motion as well. I'm not planning to do gaming, so some lag is acceptable. Color reproduction isn't that important for me either, although it appears those Panasonics with DisplayPort should be quite good at that too. I have taken a close look at a couple of 4k TVs and haven't seen any noticeable issues with the image quality up close, although I haven't been able to test them with small text content and such myself.

I saw one customer review of 50" Panasonic TX-50AX800 that very much recommended it for both desktop and gaming use.

 

One of the things I've seen mentioned from time to time is pixel pitch. With 4k, I don't know for sure if it's still an issue, but at least on 1080p TV's, I always found them very fatiguing to look at, especially when reading text of any sort, even on the relatively small 32 inch one I used. The sheer size made it a little strange to use, and even little things like how bright it was in comparison to a monitor due to just being so much bigger tired my eyes out after a while.

I'm not saying you're going to hate it, I'm just saying it wasn't something I enjoyed, and if there's anyway to try it beforehand, even with a 1080p TV, that might help you make sure it's something that could work for you.

 

Brilliant, thanks for the help!

 

Interesting, the M6800 is no longer available for online purchase...

Edit: The representative said that it is a web page error, so I guess false alarm.

 

So the new asus G751 has a 17.3 inch 1080p IPS panel. What are the odds it would be something we could drop in to our machines/how would we figure that out.

 

do you know where we can buy mini cards for the m6800?

im talking about the DDPE minicard List of supported platform and slot location for DDPE Accelerator device | Dell British Virgin Islands

and the DW5808 (WWAN mini card)

 

Hello everybody,

I have switched a couple of months ago from a Latitude E6520 to a Precision M6800.
My configuration includes a i7-4800MQ processor, 32Gb RAM, 500Gb Crucial M550 SSD, 500Gb Seagate hybrid HDD, AMD FirePro M6100 graphics.
I have this machine in my office always powered by AC through a E-series docking station.
This morning when I came in I found the battery LED flasing red together with the one on the side above the DVD slot.
I powered down the machine and then powered back on and it started flasing again.
The battery icon in the tray shows "plugged in, not charging". I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro x64.

Any idea what could be wrong? Thanks!

Update: I powered down again, took out the battery, put it back again and powered back.
Everything seams to be back to normal now; no more flashing led and battery is charging.

 

Hi,

I just ordered a Dell M6800 and have some questions you might help me with;

Q1
I selected "none" for the Optical Drive choice. Does that mean there is a space ready for an extra harddrive or do I need to buy some kind of extra caddy/Cables etc?

Q2
I plan to use 3 SATA SDD and 1 mSATA SDD with two of the harddrives mirrored in a RAID 1.
This leaves me with three harddrives I want to organize like this:
- A::OS and programs,
- B: Programming source code and assets,
- C: Archive, Movies etc
I understand that the read performance will be better by using RAID 1. From a performance wise perspective, is it better to use RAID 1 for A or B?

Q3
Does the M6800 system use a hardware RAID solution?