News on Haswell based mobile Precision M6800 ?

Can't help you, but could you please post up some details on your new laptop? Maybe a review or pics? When did you order yours, and what were the specs?

 

I ordered one of two preconfigured m6800 versions on 23.9. It has a 4800qm, firepro m6100, 8gb ram, hybrid hd, wlan 1550. I liked the low end config as I wanted to buy ram and ssds elsewhere. The GPU is of no big interest for me.

It was configured nicely with two 4 GB sticks under the keyboard which is the harder place to get at for RAM changes. So I just had to remove the bottom cover and could easily add two 8gb sticks, an m4 msata and two samsung 840 evo ssds.

The keyboard is solid, no flex. A bit louder than my m6500 keyboard.

I tried the SSDs in single mode and RAID mode and see quite a bit faster start from hibernate.
Almost two times faster than my m6500 with an m4 512 GB SSD and 12GB ram.

AS SSD shows
_______read / write
seq.........953,81....9210,68
4k...........20,69.......55,64
4k-64......548,04....464,46
acc.time..0,088...0,051
score.......664........611 (total 1616)

Copy from msata to raid is at 450mb/s - woooaaahhh

Initially the raid was seen as hard disk from the windows optimizer. I installed the Intel Storage driver and ran winsat diskformal. After that the raid volume was marked as SSD, so that optimizing is just trim and not defrag.

Touchpad works good.

While installing apps all kept silent and cool. My m6500 is quite quick at starting the fans.

USB 3.0 is fast with about 130-140mb/s when copying large files.
But I had drop offs during copy where the external USB drive got missing. Luckily the new copy dialog of Win 8 allows continuation. When I looked at Win Explorer the drive was there, so it seems to reconnect instantly, no need to replug.
I had two copy jobs running. Now with only one vhd I get almost 200mb/s.

I had problems with the video card: installed both Intel HD and AMD drivers from dell and neither video control panel would open, both crashed (running on Windows 8.1 rtm). Uninstalled, reinstalled, ended up in flicker screens after sign in. Installed an AMD update from windows update and got a black screen with a flickering mouse cursor.

Went back to a restore point and reinstalled the amd driver, not sure why but now everything is working.

Sometimes I get a clicking noise from the speakers when some sound is played and sometimes the DVD drive does some seeking although it is empty. Well I plan to put a hard disk in there.


Any specific questions? Just ask.

 

Screen quality? Are you scaling in win7/8at all?

 

Hi mate,

I had a similar problem with the 5620 and managed to find the setup file (dropbox link in #7) http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...ting-dell-5620-wwan-m11x-r3-generic-umts.html

 

I am missing my old 1920*1200 resolution but apart from that all is well.
I am no graphics worker, so I do not have specific needs for color accuracy, nor can I recognize it.
Let us hope for Bokeh to do some measurement for those who need this information.

I use 120% scaling without problems for both the laptop screen and an external Dell U2412M via DP.
Might go down to 110%, not sure yet.

 

Thank you very much, it is working flawlessly :thumbsup:

 

great! glad it helped

 

Hi

I receive my m4800 friday (04/10/13)

config:
i7 4700qm, 8gb ram, firepro 5100m, 750GB 7200rpm, intel wlan card, 1080p screen
with ubuntu 12.04 instead of windows.

I put a crucial m500 msata in the msata port (i reach +400MB on it so it's a sata3 port )
i put windows 8.1pro 64, linux mint 15 and clean the HDD.

on linux the m5100 run fine with the proprietary driver (not sure if enduro is ok)
on windows i take the amd radeon driver 13.10beta (got problem with dell driver in w8.1)

there are some problems:
-can't install intel HD driver for the cpu graphic card
-when wakeup from sleep it crash on linux and windows (black screen, fan speedup after some time, no drive activity), may be a bios problem?
+1 for noise in speaker and dvd

ps: french guy

 

the german dell site specifies sata III.

-- Dell PrecisionM6800 Workstation

 

I have an M6800 on the way. Not sure of the timing yet. Planning to test it and post a review.

I have had a chance to see the M6800. Exterior is close to the same. Firewire is gone. Power usage on battery with the 4th gen Intel Quad core is lower. They have merged the CPU and GPU heatsinks into one massive unit and it seems to run cooler under heavy loads.