New M6500 Discussion Thread

Ok so officially, Dell supports 2 internal hard drives, 1 miniPCIe SSD, and 1 internal optical disc drive. While not from Dell, users such as nando, have reported that one can replace the optical disc drive with a third party caddy for a 3rd hard drive. See the following link:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=388625

 

sgogeta is correct

and im pretty sure i have seen on here people using the dells 1.8" drive bay that works with the e6500 etc in the precisions

the good thing about the aftermarket bays is they allow you to fit in a 2.5" 9.5mm high hard drive as the modular bay is bareloy bigger than 9.5mm high

stop trying to make me cry havoctex !

 

a copy from sgogeta's post

ICH9M or
newer sata sata 9.5mm sata
12.7mm sata & 9.5mm sata
9.5mm sata
12.7mm sata Dell E6400/E6500 (9.5mm sata) &
HP 8730W (12.7mm sata)
HP 2530P/8530W (9.5mm sata)

 

The DVD drives used in the M6400/6500 is 9.5mm in height and has a SATA connection according to Dell Support. Since these drives should fit into any other laptop w/ 9.5mm height, the Lenovo solution (or eBay or newmodus) should work (from the sticky at the top of the page) but until someone tries it, we won't know for sure.

 

Canon 5Dmk2 (21.1mp DSLR) and a backpack full of lenses are ready to go. Let me know what you want shots of...

 

um... everything?

 

E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G



P.s: inside pics , thanks...

 

I would really like to see the device manager with the network adapters and the system devices exposed. And, I would also like to see where the second hard drive is located. Thanks.

 

GLAMOUR SHOTS PLEASE.

 

I'm really curious about any improvement in battery life over the M6400. I'm running a QX9300, FX 3700M and 2x 256 SSDs in my M6400. I get *maybe* an hour of battery life while doing light work (Word, Excel), let alone LR or CS4. I wish there was a way to underclock the GPU as this seems to be the major power draw.

I've actually considered getting an ultralight (~3lbs) to carry in my laptop case when I travel so I have something to use on the airplane. I need the power of my M6400 when I get to where I'm going, but want the battery life of my wife's E6400 (5 hrs) for the actual travel.

So, how will the Core i7-920XM and FX 3800M (with 10W idle) do on battery? I'd be happy if it could get 2 hrs with a light-moderate load.

Anyone have any idea yet?