Precision M4500 Owner's Lounge

just bought the intel 310 ssd 80 gb last week, do you guys know screw i need to install it?

 

Actually, i know a lot about this screw issue. I have four of them just sent to me from Dell. They are very small and when they sent me their ssd card it did not have a screw. So I went to TrueValue Hardware locally and took the 4 smallest screws they had and the smallest, 3/32? worked.

I will be interested if the intel works as the stock Dell I got was only 64GB.

PS I now have 4 screws from Dell by Fed Ex!

 

will let you know if it works, the review on newegg.com indicated it did work for M4500.

 

Hey guys, what does "Uplift" means?

My delivery status now is "Uplift" and I got no idea what that means =|

 

I am just throwing the idea out there. For those of us not using the pcie minicard / ssd do you think there would be a way I could some how make use of it as an additional esata connection?

Maybe with this?
http://www.commell.com.tw/News/News/News_20100120_MPX3132.htm

 

Dang, already envious of the additional 16GB. I am running with about 15GB free. All my documents and music etc are out on the HDD.

 

I just picked up an m4500... it's a nice notebook, just have an issue with the keyboard flex. I got the backlit kb. Has anyone tried both the backlit and non-backlit and can chime-in on whether there's any difference in flex between the two? What about kb's from other models that fit?

I had a w500 with the same issue and had Lenovo send me a t61 kb which completely fixed it.

Thanks.

 

Oh yes! Dell just called me and said they will deliver tomorrow's evening

Pretty fast, imo. 3rd March! Love Dell!
And thanks Jerry!

 

btw i can confirm that the intel 310 will work on the notebook. I installed windows 7 last night on it. It's a lot quicker than the standard hard drive. Also the screw that came to secure the modular bay works too on the ssd.

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Dell M4500 i7-720QM 8GB Ram 80GB Intel 310 SSD, 500 GB Western Digital Black 7200 rpm, FHD 15.6, FX880, Intel 6300 ultimate wireless

 

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Hi. My M4500 came with the Samsung m800 miniSATA SSD as the O/S disk. I want to upgrade to the Intel 310 because I'm close to limit on 64 GB. Can I ask you guys a couple of questions?:

1. Do you know where to get the Intel 310?

2. Will the mountings/screws already in there for the Samsung m800 work for the Intel 310?

3. How do I open the machine up to get at the miniSATA slot? If you can tell me which screws I need to undo that would be great.