New M6500 Discussion Thread

Totally agree with you. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

 

They'll do nothing like that. The two guys where I ordered mine clearly told me that I will not get the bracket and adapter if I don't order the 2nd HDD. They said that too many people did this and they are running out of parts now. That was end of January. Otherwise I surely wouldn't have spent 200 Euro for a 2nd 500GB-HDD.

You can't even be sure to get all the 4 RAM sockets unless you order them filled in the first place.

 

As far as I understood the number of RAM slots depends on the CPU type. The new Arrandales (core i5 and i7 620m) are delivered with a new motherboard with only two memory slots. Only the i7 quad quores get four slots.

 

A quick question for M6500 (non-covet) owners:

Is the Samsung SEC5443 panel matte or glossy by itself?

Thank You

 

Correct! Unless they mix it up and put an Arrandale board into your Clarkdale notebook - which will not happen if you order it with 4 DIMMs.

All panels are matte.

 

Here's something to note: I installed the SSD to drive 2, and spindle drive to drive 1....when I installed windows pro x64, dell reinstallation disk, it asked me where to install, my choices were:

Disk 0: SSD Drive (in drive bay 2)
Disk 1: Platter drive (in drive bay 1)

I installed to the SSD and everything is hunky dory... My BIOS was set on AHCI and to boot from CD/DVD, HDD1, HDD2....in that order, still is as I suspect some boot files were put onto the platter in drive bay 1.

Any thoughts?

 

Quad baby, all the way !!!! 8 core or no core!!

 

Thank you!

 

Has anyone used the Paragon Alignment Software to align their SSD? It's free until June 30th...I've read good things about it....register for Serial Key and link:

White Paper: Partition Alignment Dramatically Increases System Performance

I have it installed, looks slick....tells me my SSD is not properly aligned for max performance. But I haven't run it yet because I'm working right now....I try to throw that in once in a while....lol

EDIT: I ran it....does everything pre-boot....my 160gb SSD took around 13 minutes to align, and my 500gb platter took around 20 minutes.....it says it succeeded in both cases and both are "optimally aligned" Caveat Emptor.

 

I'll have to check out that alignment tool. But from my research (google), windows 7 will automatically align the partitions when it installs.