New M6500 Discussion Thread

Great, thnx both of you for your helpful info

 

So a gpu from the m6500 will not work in the m6400?
You can get a ATI 7740 on Ebay for $139.00 for the m6500, I was hoping to buy one, but now im not sure.

 

No, they are different. The m6500 keyboard has some studs on the bottom to interlock into the deck plate. Had an m6400 that was replaced under warranty with an m6500 and noticed the difference when I was moving my memory over.

 

Has anyone information on the performance difference between
Notebook-DDR3-RAM with CAS Latencys (CL9, CL7 aud CL5) at the same bandwidth?

 

The palmrest assembly is different.

Memory slots 3 and 4 are placed differently.

The CPU positions are different.

 

Thanks for the feedback guys

Anyone know the part number for the US-Layout keyboard for an M6500 then? Also, anyone know a third-party supplier for this part, given Dell here in Australia says there's no such thing??

 

My M6500 just replaced a 4 years old XPS M2010. It's a nice piece of hardware.

Simply said: i7, q820, 12 Gb Ram, 1 SSD Intel X-25, 1 hdd 500 Gb, covet edition (samsung display), FIPS reader, USB3, Intel 5300 Wi-fi; clean Win7 64b install.

I thank you all about this thread and all the info I gathered from this forum. Invaluable - that's all I can say (display profiles, sound card issues, etc). THANK YOU.

Now, I do have some "issues":
a) all the time, after login, wi-fi is disconnected. I need to pick my network from the list, click "connect" and it works. It does like this on 4 different networks (different router types). Anyone encountered this?
b) after login, 1-2 sec later, for 0.1 sec the display blinks (as if the video driver reloads). Any ideas?
c) last but not least, I have a E-Port Plus (dock station). Should I press on something in order to let my M6500 "know" the dock is there? I've inserted notebook into the dock input port, but nothing happens. If I insert a mouse into the dock, the mouse does not even get power. The only thing that works, is the ""power button" on the dock station - I can switch on/off my laptop from that piece of equipment. There is no led activity on dock after I plug in the charger into the dock.

 

I installed Intel's own wireless tools and driver. Mine's the 6300, but I'm sure the 5300 is covered by their Proset tools. Give it a shot. I don't have this issue.

Mine does too. Pretty sure it's just the color profile being applied. Non issue imo, and only happens on cold boots.

Interesting. Maybe double check the bios and see if the port's disabled (can't remember if there's even a setting for it, honestly). Other than that, are you sure the power adapters plugged into the port replicator? I have that same one if I'm not mistaken, and both the power button and eject buttons have a similar blue backlight to them as the power button on the 6500 itself. If those aren't lit up when you plug the machine in, then either it's not getting power, it's not completely engaged in the port, or something's defective.

Good luck.

 

Does the M6500 have an esata port multiplier (to connect multiple hard drives via 1 esata cable)?

 

I've been away from this thread for a long time and am an early adopter (that is, my M6500 only has USB2).

I will readily admit that I haven't read from about pg 315 to here, but was wondering if someone could quickly let me know: has anyone else (besides Bokeh) been able to update their USB2-only M6500 to USB3?