Precision M4400 Owner's Lounge *Part 2*

Thanks F4ding.

It will be interesting to see if anyone has any real world full blu ray burning experiences to see just what speeds they are averaging. I have around 30 Blus to burn of data at full 25GB. I wonder if the Dell drives can handle 50GB discs.

I noticed Dell uses a
Panasonic UJ232A BD Combo
Panasonic UJ232AB BD-RE

However I can't find the difference between them.

 

Can anyone confirm that they can play Blu ray movies with either one of these 2 M4400 Blu ray burners.

I read contradicting information in another thread that stated this:

Dell currently uses:
Panasonic UJ232A BD Combo
Panasonic UJ232AB BD-RE

&

"I believe the UJ232AB is the BD Combo (reads Blu-Ray) & the UJ232A is the BD-RE (reads & writes to Blu-Ray)."

I am not sure what this means "combo vs BD-RE" and I am very curious about what the difference is between the 2 versions are before I spend a fortune on the burner.

If someone can give some insight it would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

I'm pretty sure that it's as follows:

Panasonic UJ232A BD Combo:
Blu-Ray (read)
DVD (read/write)
CD (read/write)

Panasonic UJ232AB BD-RE:
Blu-Ray (read/write)
DVD (read/write)
CD (read/write)

I'm not totally certain about the combo drive though, so you might want to double-check that. "combo" usually means that the drive can read some newer types of media whilst only being able to write to older ones. Some years ago, the term "combo drive" was common for DVD drives that could write to CDs and read (but not write) DVDs. BD-RE is "Blu-Ray Rewritable" (like CD-RW). BD-R is "Blu-Ray Recordable" (like CD-R).

 

Im not using VMs myself so im sorry i don't know in detail. Just read it somewhere.
If you say it depends on what VM Tool to use it might be hint enough for the guys who want to start with VMs.

Other Issue:

Any news from the Downclocking area?

I started Playing Wow Wotlk on PDK25 (trial of crusader25) and my system clocks down anyhow... Frame drop from 39 to 6 FPS... any ideas?

Monday ill Replace the thermalpads with Arctic Silver5 and connect the Chipset below the Touchpad to the heatpipe with the Thermalpads i removed... thats my plan.

Any hints/risks/issues known with this?

PS: Speedfan displays 84°c GPU // 66°c CPU highest after ~2hours gaming

 

Those temps aren't even close to being the cause for downclocking. Could you check with HWmonitor? Maybe your temps are higher than speefan is showing....quite a few temp monitors need to be offset by a couple degrees.
When i'm playing GTA4 my GPU usually maxes at 86c-87c but that never causes downclocking

 

Hey all, I got the notebook yesterday. I noticed a SIM slot beneath the battery. I put my T-Mobile sim in it but how can I activate the internet through it? Does my unit come with WWAN? I posted my order specs in the previous page.

 

I got 85° GPU and 72°c CPu... seems ok... but still anythin clocks... can this be DPC latency ?

im now DLing new wlan driver.

 

Hi guys

Sorry if this has already been posted, but nVidia has released v195.55 beta of their display drivers, which support hardware accelerated Flash 10.1 (amongst other things). If you watch Flash video via the web, it's worth getting both updates:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

 

you'll need to install a WWAN module. The antennae, sim card slot, etc are present in all m4400's.

 

Thanks! I saw this in Dell's support site. Do you HAVE to use Dell's control point manager for this?