New M6500 Discussion Thread

That is the LG panel. Its fine without calibration. It is a little less saturated than the Samsung.

Both are better with calibration, but the gains from calibration are higher on the Samsung display. Conversely, the Samsung is not quite as good uncalibrated.

All IMHO and experiences. I have seen, calibrated, and worked with both panels. Neither one is better or worse, it is mostly personal preference.

 

But is it preferable over the WLED for those users whose primary concern is not color accuracy in Photoshop and the like but if anything how the colors look in other applications? (If you recall there was some discussion about colors being oversaturated in non-color managed applications way back in the thread.) I think that's the question that both me and peon1 want an answer to.

 

Did Manny just dissolve?

When I first got mine (Samsung display, second display actually) I felt that the color was pretty oversaturated by default. I received the laptop in the midst of a week of vacation, so I had some time to play with stuff. Eventually, once I got through "piddling" I settled on a slight adjustment from out of the box. I use mine for development mainly, processing pics on occasion. Professional developer, not photographer, so using AdobeRGB or immediate calibration aren't priorities of mine.

If I were you, I'd get the RGB display. You can deal with the saturation. Mind you, my opinions tempered with the fact that I'm kicking my own for shorting myself on the bluray option on my own 6500.

 

No question about it, really. You'll love the screen.

 

I was right there with Bokeh when he did it, and I can attest to that

 

Well whereas peon01 still seems to be deciding I had already ordered the WLED and it actually got delivered yesterday. Ironically, or whatever the term is for this specific kind of predicament, it has a terrible issue with some kind of signal noise and it looks like it will have to be replaced. So maybe, if I asked very nicely, I could get it replaced with an RGB LED instead.. =P

Apart from that issue though the screen is excellent as is the rest of the unit. So overall I'm very content. Adding more memory was a pain though.

 

Havoctex,

Would you happen to know if Dell has the Intel extreme tuning utility available for download somewhere for 920XM owners?

Intel® Core™ i7 Mobile Processor Extreme Edition - Overview

 

Let me check with my engineering team but I don't think this utility will work on our systems because we consider the M6500, and the M4500, mobile workstations and therefore we lock the CPU from overclocking. This preserves the warranty for our customers.

 

Cheers everyone for your comments as to the temperature with the thermal trip issue I experienced (a few pages back, sorry -- been off travelling again). So far still no resurface of the issue, and I think it was just a random error


(and yes, the RGB LED screen is absolutely fantastic! -- still a little bit miffed that I didn't get the option of choosing the non-glass front with RBG LED, but inside the glass front looks bloody brilliant..)

 

For those still looking for a good screen, -

Here you go

I was debating between W701, M6500 and HP 8740w and eventually went for the later because of the 25-28%OFF currently available when ordering through a sales rep, which makes the system even cheaper than similarly configured W701 (even after the 25% discount coupon the ThinkPad is only ~200$ less), but you get the IPS (30-bit) screen, i7-840QM (about the same performance as a 920XM@stock clocks but runs less hot and draws less juice), M7820 (MR5870) GPU, the rest of the components are similar between the 3 models.

The second post in the link above is a comparison shootout between the IPS and RGB LED (in my M17x, which has the same 8-bit per colour panel as in M6500).

I was never a big fan of HP and would prefer a ThinkPad 10/10, but the latest TPs disappointed me (W-series) with the number of issues, and Dell never offered any discounts for the M6500 after my countless attempts...
So I decided to give elitebooks a shot. So far so good