New M6500 Discussion Thread

quite a lot of bruneians studying in london, if any of your friends are studying there, you can ask them to pick it up for you there.

 

Wow! Thanks for the detailed replies Star Forge, ygohome and xPat!

Definitely gives me something to think about. I usually like to buy new, but maybe eBay is the way to go after all. I better make a decision on this soon. Wish I would have bought a couple months ago!

Does anyone think it would be worthwhile to give Dell a call and talk to a real human being about this (somebody who would put one aside if it came up and call back?)

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I just checked out eBay. I'm beginning to think that might be the way to go.

 

"Calling Dell to talk to a real human being" is something I spent a good couple of days of my life on, before giving in and buying on eBay.

You're right that the selection isn't what it was a month ago. What's left won't last long. Ebay is the way to go; outlet direct if you are somehow more able to beat the bots than I was.

Best,
xPat

 

What is sad is that the most people who use the script bots to get what they want on Outlet often marks up the price and resells then on the Bay. So what you are paying on eBay is often a 20%+ Markup from the same system on the actual Outlet.

 

Well, I just took the plunge and bought my M6500 from eBay. Bought one for $2195 Refurbished. 1920X1200 display, 8 Gigs Ram, i7-920.

I guess I should have bought it several months ago from Dell. At that time I was pricing what I got around $2500.

What I can't understand is why Dell doesn't just mark them up higher if there is such a demand for them that all the script bots are scarfing them up the split second they come up at Dell's website. Unless somehow this is a unique situation with the M6500 / M6600 display issue that has taken everyone by surprise or something.

I'm glad I did what I did and I thank you all for pointing me in that direction. I was about ready to get the 6600 but would have always regretted the display thing.

 

I'm trying to figure out how to connect my Dell Precision M6500 laptop to a Samsung 40 inch HDTV. I need both video and audio, but the Display Port does not have the ++ sign next to it on this laptop. So I'm guessing that simply getting a Display Port to HDMI cable will only output the video to the TV and not the audio. What are my options if I need both video and audio?

Thanks...

 

It can but you need an DisplayPort to HDMI adapter that can do that and they aren't cheap though. You need one that specifically says for both Audio and Video and they are usually worth around $30 USD an adapter.

 

Oh cool--so even though the laptop doesn't say DP++, it can still output video and audio? The laptop says only "DP".

 

I believe from the past that I have remember people saying that it does. All you need is really that special adapter to feed it.

 

It supports audio as well. Mine has the same "markings" on it.

Audio is passed to anything up to 1080i/p resolutions. Higher resolutions (at least for the nvidia cards) only pass video unfortunately, but your HDTV should receive audio just fine.