New M6500 Discussion Thread

Good news for me. How does it compare to Samsung? I no longer have my Alienware to compare it with.

Superb deal! What's the original price? Nope. Adding extra mem does not void your warranty.

 

No. The M6500 will not take any Sandy Bridge processors; those require a new chipset and socket to work. The M6600 is supposedly coming out soon (likely in about half a year or so); those will have Sandy Bridge.

 

$1469 - 20% = $1,175.20 + free shipping + $76.37 tax = $1,251.57

that's good i ordered a pair of gskill 4gb x 2 from newegg for $83

i just hope it doesn't come with problems like some of other members on here. *fingers crossed*

 

silly and stupid, I had more then a short novel written but I want to keep my NBR account for now.

 

hello,

As a serious photographer; i'm in the market for a mobile workstation with a GREAT screen for photo editing. I guess the RGB Led screen from the Dell can't compare the the HP 8740w's IPS one... but do you think that the Dell's would be enough for my needs ?
I know the viewing angles will be 'bad' but what about the coulour depth and acuracy?
I've read so many complaints about the harsh colours of the RGB screen that i'm a little scared... I think that you can 'easily' calibrate it with a Spyder Elite tool; but how the Dell manage the reduced colour space sRGB? How is the switch ?

Thank you for you help

PS : i'm debating between the Dell & the HP for days ;-) . I can have a good deal on the M6500, but I would like the colour management as efficient as possible.
On the HP 8740w's thread; there is a photographic comparison between the IPS screen and the RGB Led screen of the 17 AW (same screen as the M6500 i guess...?). The difference in the pics is huge... but the Alienware screen was not calibrated... so ...
http://forum.notebookreview.com/notebook-news-reviews/503121-hp-8740w-review-full-metal-jacket.html

 

the dream color is a better panel but i think the dell is a better unit... and its cheaper...

also they have better monitor support on the docking station...

if you order a RGB unit from either co they will be very similar quality.. only the new dream color panels are a slightly better image but again.. quite pricey.

if you plan on doing any serious work i would look into the dell with a dock and a pair of quality monitors

 

The RGB LED is a 6 bit TN panel (all TN panels are 6 bit native), even with RGB backlighting (which is just gamut) it will suffer in the colors it can actually display. It's a tethered panel meaning it will use interpolation to output 8 bit, thus is inferior to the IPS panel on the HP laptops using native 8 bit panels (I think it's tethered to 10 bit, however do some research).

Get the IPS option on the HP. There's more to just viewing angles when it comes to professional use for IPS panels.

Oh yes almost forget talk to HP before you order you system. HP's workstations are always overpriced, if you give them a call or something and press them to give you a discount (you need to be ready to buy right then and there) they will give you one. Usually it's a pretty hefty discount.

 

Okay had another issue with my M6500 in fact an issue that was present since the first repair.

1st problem was green tint/no display on the LCD. The Video card/LCD were replaced.
2nd Problem was they replaced the LCD with a lower quality Samsung, they sent the correct WLED LG. (the issue I am having now was present with both LCD's).
3rd Problem is the screen turns off randomly for 1-2 seconds. Sometimes like once a day it will turn off completely and not come back. In addition it has issues with throttling during games, I don't think it's heat related (Under 80c for the GPU under 70c for CPU) but who knows.
At first I thought it was a loose cable but everything is as tight as can be and there is no play to reproduce the issue.

Anyone else having similar issues with the M6500 Nvidia Quadro FX 2800m?

Edit: They are replacing the system after trying to give me the boot with a 7-10 day Depot repair service.

 

Not to belittle your troubleshooting skills but:

Have you tried displaying to an external monitor and replicating the issue? If you can't replicate the issue on the external monitor then you have minimum a bad LCD.

Have you reseatted the RAM/HDD. Sometimes this can cause issues with RAM being slightly not in place.

Have you used known good RAM?

Swap in a known good video card?

For problem 3, is that within Windows? If it is sounds like bad drivers, is there a warning icon that Nvidia display drivers crashed and restarted the service? Also could mean a bad GPU.

 

I skipped mentioning several diagnostics I have done simply because I did not want to run a page documentary lol. To be quite honest I shouldn't have to be doing these diagnostics in the first place, Dell should just have tighter QC.

They have been reseated (to try different HDD/reseated when trying other ram), no the HDD wouldn't cause this kind of issue, and ram would likely have caused artifacting, permanent black screen, or BSOD. I haven't had one time where ram caused the LCD to turn off momentarily (keep in mind the LCD turns off, not just goes black- and actually I haven't seen a temporary black screen because of a bad RAM seating).

Yes. The screen goes black as well on the external (external sometimes goes to stand by almost as if there is no display).

Yes I swapped ram, not that it matters considering the CPU/RAM have been extensively tested (36~ hrs of Prime95, and memtest- 6 hours at a time~).

No warning issues with display drivers crashing. Just throttling. Probably a overprotective GPU BIOS or just bad GPU.

All 3 issues persist even with a different hard drive/fresh installation.

I am thinking bad GPU, or bad motherboard.