New M6500 Discussion Thread

Has anyone noticed low sound volume? It is up all the way, but seems to not be outputting as much as it should. Running Control Point

 

Wanted to know does anyone use this at home with a docking station?? I am thinking of setting this up with an eport plus docking station with my 3008wfp.

 

I don't....I just plug in my u2410 directly....I'd be interested in reponses to this though as I might want to do a dock set up at some point.

 

I've got later drivers than those from the intel website. recommended. Go here and do a scan, bookmark it

http://www.intel.com/support/detect.htm?iid=dc_iduu

 

If you are using 30" monitors, make sure you use the DisplayPort interface. This will allow you to connect 2 of them (and get 10 bit color per channel with the Nvidia cards).

 

also with the comparison between the 3800 and the M7820 are they about on par or is the ATI better??

 

Nvidia 3800M - 3D Mark 06 - min: 12050 avg: 12687 (66%) max: 13323 Points

Possibly compatible with more apps - CS4 and CS5
Can run CUDA stuff

ATI M7820 - 3D Mark 06 - min: 12000 avg: 12532 (66%) max: 13063 Points

DirectX 11 available on the ATI
Possibly lower max power consumption on ATI

 

Now on the outlet the one with the 920 is that actually a typo and its the 920XM???

I just snagged this on the outlet page:

1 Precision Mobile Workstation M6500 Laptop
1 Silver
1 Software
1 Dell WebCam Central 1.0 software
1 Internal Swipe Fingerprint Reader
1 Information
1 Certified Refurbished
1 Dell Control Point software
1 8X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability
1 Bluetooth Wireless Card 365
1 Software
1 Miscellaneous
1 Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit Operating System DVD
1 1.0GB ATI FirePro M7820 Graphics
1 Integrated Webcam with digital microphone
1 Win7 Starter Software
1 No Modem
1 Service Software
1 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz (2 DIMMs)
1 Label
1 210 AC Adapter
1 256 GB Solid State Drive Ultra Performance
1 256GB Mobility Solid State Drive, 2.5MM 2nd Drive
1 Operating System DVD
1 Roxio Creator 10.3 DE
1 Software CD
1 Trend Micro 16.6 PC-cillin 30 Day
1 No Raid
1 Shipping
1 Power DVD Software
1 No Resource CD
1 Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate
1 125V Power Cord
1 Base Assembly
1 17 inch UltraSharp WUXGA (1920x1200) RGB LED Display
1 Intel 6200 Wireless-N (2x2) Half Mini-Card
1 NO LAT ON RDR
1 Back-lit Keyboard
1 Label
1 Windows Live
1 9 Cell Primary Battery
1 Label
1 Documentation
1 Processor: Intel Core i7-920 Processor (8MB L3 Cache, 1MB L2 Cache, 2.66GHz)
1 Power DVD Software
1 Resource DVD
1 Palmrest W/O Smart Card Reader

 

that is a typo, it should read i7-920XM.

 

thanks, but it does not find a new driver.

does not even list it