New M6500 Discussion Thread

The version of DisplayPort on the M6500 does not support daisy-chaining screens but the M6500 does support two 30" display at full resolution via DisplayPort. To do this the advanced dock is required. It will also support two of the older 30" display via displayport to duallink DVI dongles.

 

I will be Ordering the E-View Laptop Stand with my M6500, but it doesn’t state
that it supports two displays or not. And I do not see an advanced dock
On dell's website

Except for E/Port Plus 210W Port Replicator for Dell Precision M6400/ M6500 Mobile WorkStations.
Which advance docking Station are you talking about. And we Need the 210W/240W Power Supply
for the M6500 and two 24" or 30" displays.

Could you post a link to this advance docking Station please?

 

(1) I loved the thinkpad trackpoint, is the M6500's as usable? Can you do vertical scrolling with the middle mousebutton and the trackpoint?

Cant compare with the thinkpad, but yes you can go vertical scrolling with it and the middle mouse button.

(2) Any complaints regarding the keyboard, flex anywhere? The Studio 17 keyboard is imho below average (note: I loved (!) the keyboard on my last Thinkpad, the T42p). I think the overall Studio 17 build quality is below average, I hope the M6500 is alot more solid.

I have no problem with the keyboard, I type all day and haven't found any serious issues with it. Again never had a thinkpad...

(3) I don't do any photo/video work, so should I nevertheless buy the RGB led backlight or is the 'white' LED backlight sufficient (my private laptop is a macbook pro 13" - which afaik - has a white LED backlight - which I love)

White LED is sufficient, and decent to save some cash but the RGB LED is truely outstanding.

 

Hello! I've just received my new M6500, and I have a question regarding color on the RGBLED display.

I didn't found any color profile specific for the monitor, and I'm no photographer, but the reds and the greens glow on this thing (I mean, they are fluorescent ).

Can anyone tell me how to configure the display properly? I have the M7740 GPU (if that makes any difference).

Thanks,
Pablo

 

I wanted to say E/Port Plus 210W. This dock works with the e-view stand.

 

Hi MannyA,

In my region, we dont have much option..
http://configure.ap.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=my&l=en&s=bsd&cs=mybsd1&kc=&oc=S621113MY
With lack of options, I still manage to change the display from WXGA to WUXGA.

4 pcs. of 2GB RAM @ 1333 is fantastic to work with. It still scores around 7.5 for WEI.
But I ordered a separate 160GB Solid State Drive from intel. Hoping to speed up openning an application(specially Revit).

With all the softwares installed and Authorized. Any advice before I "Ghost" the Hard Disk to a new Solid State Drive (besides disc cleanup)?

 

I'd just like everyone to know that both the official 3800M driver and the hacked driver from Bokeh both have screen redraw issues with Visual Studio 2008. I am eagerly awaiting a working driver.

 

My M6500 shipped with a faulty DVD-RW slot loader.

Reading disks was fine but burning anything over 1.5gb caused the burn to fail.

I called dell and they came the next day and took the drive and provided a replacement.

Changing the drive was a matter of 3 screws and about 2 minutes.

Hopefully its an isolated case and not a faulty batch.

If you have your M6500 and havent tried burning a DVD yet maybe worth trying it...

 

Its not just 1 hacked driver.

Go to laptopvideo2go.com and pretty much everything on there for windows 7 with a hacked inf will work. They always have the latest and greatest.

When you go to a driver page you get both the driver and an inf link. You run the driver which extracts an installer and drop the inf in that folder. Run setup and it'll install that driver.

I've tried about 6 different driver versions and had as much as a 6% difference in 3D mark score. I dont run visual studio as I program under linux.

Obviously for your use gradx try a couple of different versions. I personally settled with 195.81 for the moment.

 

I'm not sure about the ATI video... Bokeh has been giving some good pointers on dealing with the vibrance with the NVIDIA in this thread...
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5730719&postcount=760

but that is for NVIDIA obviously. Someone with your ATI card will post up eventually on how they dealt with it. I'd start by checking the ATI control panel in your display settings and go from there.