New M6500 Discussion Thread

Dell in Denmark sold me an M6500 with the mobile broadband card in it, but it never shipped -- they have now stated that it has not been released yet. Shame I can't get it in my country :<

 

Congrats Basketweaver....that's one heck of great upgrade, for free! I originally had the covet ordered, but it got lost during the USB 3.0 changeover and I ended up with a Silver base....I bet that Edge2Edge is gorgeous....I regret not getting that. I'm a linux freak too, and yes, Nvidia and Intel are the two key words in ordering a linux machine.

 

The screen is indeed gorgeous -- but utterly useless outside compared to the matte one I was outside in the sun today turning myself into a lobster, and it was near impossible to do any of the design work I was doing (I dropped all the visual design, and stuck to high contrast code )

I have been sitting contemplating whether I should go for the lovely Gentoo Linux, or just laze out with Ubuntu. My issue seems to continually be that the time I spend optimizing Gentoo costs so much time that I could have done way more on Ubuntu although it would be (marginally) slower.
In the end, I guess I just love watching the optimized code whiz by, compiling at full speed. *remembers back when compiling kde- took five days*

 

I hear ya I used to be a Slackware freak, but anymore I'm lazy and using Mint 9 x64 now, exclusively on my Vostro 1220. Going to DW now and see what's happening

 

Hey muchachos, there is a new Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver linked in the SSD thread here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...marks-brands-news-advice-110.html#post6403048

I've updated to it....working fine

It's in the wild, but not yet on the intel site....originated from a French site I believe

 

Does it give any good speed increase, or...?

 

I will check...I'm using an SSD....it's not slower, that's for sure

 

I'm on 64GB SSD + 640GB HDD, so I might want to do it, too

*continues his budging with trying to get Audio over HDMI to work with his FX 3800M* Either it wants to work, but then at a resolution that the plasma don't like very much (wrong aspect, too many vertical pixels -- 800 vs 720), or it won't, but then the screen plays nice.
I'll get there... for now, more monday morning lazing about!

 

I believe you need to install Blueray DVD driver in you new system. Also, uninstall Audio driver sand intall the latest driver from Dell support WEB site. Im not sure of OS you are using, but I have Blue Ray DVD and Win 7 64 and did not have any message like that.

 

What about something in between? Debian Lenny works fine on this machine. You'll only need to get a newer kernel from the backports and the NVIDIA driver from Squeeze if you want 3D stuff.
Frankly, I'm too lazy to maintain Gentoo. But handling Ubuntu with all its regressions and half done packaging tweaks is even more annoying.

In fact every distribution with a kernel newer than 2.6.30 should work fine.

btw: The current OpenSolaris snapshots also performed well as far as I can tell.