New M6500 Discussion Thread

Only the Envy 15 has 4 memory slots. Doesn't the M6500 support up to 3 HDDs? Or is one through the removal of the DVD drive?

 

one is through a minipcie ssd but thats exactly the drive setup im looking for

two of the fastest ssd's in raid0 and a small minipcie ssd for a temp file/folder and pagefile drive

 

also i would have a traditional hard drive in the media bay if the m6500's use them that is but im sure they do

 

Has anyone seen this already. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O2gI97y34A

He makes the M6400 feel like a turtle.

 

Oh yeah totally forgot about that. Which miniPCIe SSD do they use? I think Mtron has one that is as fast as 2.5" ones (100/80 MB/s sequential R/W respectively vs. most not even half that).

 

im not sure , probably wont know until dell announce it or someone reviews a system when the drive beecomes available

just thinking , looking at the new sata3 ssd from micron it performs much better than other sata2 drives apparently so that means when i buy the m6500 that the drives i buy at the same time will be choked by the sata2 bus

just checked them out properly , they can get write speeds of over 200MB/S and reads of around 260MB/S on sata2

on sata3 they write about the same on reads they are up at 355MB/S , i was hoping to buy a pair of the fastest drives at the time of buying the precison and put them in raid0 ......

 

I'd like to see more of the machine and less of the guy.

 

the M6400 supports 3 hdd, one through optical drive. It also has 4 ram slots, which makes it cheap to have 8gb ram (4x2gb)

 

another thing i dont like is that to have the orange chassis you have to have the 1900x1200 mirror

hopefully once they get them shipping a while they open up the options to allow the rgb led antiglare screen

anyone know if it has hdmi ? i use hdmi quite alot on my machine but i suppose a displayport to hdmi adaptor will go along with it

 

I placed an order today with the following specs;

Mobile Precision M6500, Carbide Silver
Intel Core i7-920XM Quad Core 2.00GHz 8MB for M6500
Intel Core i7 Extreme Label, Latitude/Mobile Precision
4.0GB, DDR3-1600 SDRAM, 2 DIMM for Dell Mobile Precision
Internal Backlit English Keyboard, Dell Mobile Precision
nVidia Quadro FX 3800M, 1.0GB DDR3 Discrete for M6500
160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
No Fingerprint Reader for M6500
17" UltraSharp WUXGA (1920x1200) RGB LED display for M6500
Integrated megapixel VGA webcam with single digital microphone, M6500
Dell Webcam Central Software Dell Latitude/Mobile Precision
17 inch Wide Screen LCD Silver Cover for M6500
Genuine Windows 7 Professional64-bit, w/ media, Mobile Precision, English
Genuine Windows 7 Label, Latitude, Vostro and Mobile Precision Notebooks
No Modem for Mobile PrecisionMX400
210W/240W switchable Slim 3-Pin, AC Adapter Dell Precision M6400
US - 6-FT, 3-Pin Flat Power Cord for Mobile Precision
8X DVD+/-RW slot load for Mobile Precision
Cyberlink Power DVD 8.3,with Media, Dell Relationship LOB
Roxio Creator Dell Edition 10.3, Media, Dell RLOB
Palmrest with contact-less smart card reader for M6500
Intel WiFi Link 5300 (802.11 a/g/n 3X3) 1/2 MiniCard for VPRO Latitude E/Mobile Precision
Resource DVD with Diagnostics and Drivers for Mobile Precision M6500
Quick Reference Guide for Precision M6500
All Hard Drives Non- RAID for 1 to 2 Hard Drives, Dell Mobile Precision M6400
9-Cell/85-WHr Battery for Mobile Precision M6500
Dell Hardware Limited Warranty Plus Onsite Service Extended Year(s)
Dell Hardware Limited Warranty Plus Onsite Service Initial Year
ProSupport for IT: Next Business Day Parts and Labor Onsite Response 2 Year Extended
ProSupport for IT: Next Business Day Parts and Labor Onsite Response Initial Year
ProSupport for IT: 7x24 Technical Support for certified IT Staff, 2 Year Extended
ProSupport for IT: 7x24 Technical Support for certified IT Staff, Initial
CompleteCare Accidental DamageProtection, 3 Year
Info, Complete Care
9-Cell/85-WHr Additional Battery for Latitude E/Mobile Precision

Total: $5,382.47

I whined about my previous orders not being processed in a timely manner, and got a bunch of discounts for the inconvenience. Hopefully I'll get it before the 29th of December.