Precision M4500 Owner's Lounge

Thank you for the clear answer. My only hesitation is that within this thread alone some people are reporting different part numbers for the full HD screen.

I ordered an received a WLED with part number: 320-8840. Others have reported ordering the full HD and getting part number: 320-8844 with a description that includes RGB.

See here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...ision-m4500-owners-lounge-23.html#post6191540

 

I understand your hesitation but there is no RGB panel currently being offered on the M4500. PM me if you have any questions.

 

Any comments on screen bezel/palmrest collision improvements from the owners who had the M4400 also, my M4400 looks like a bag of poo, scratches, chipped, cracked bezel, must remember to ask for a replacement, although I can see dell saying it's my responsability due to wear and tear

Would be good if someone could post some benchmarks such as cinebench, specviewperf, 3dmark, vantage etc, thanks for the 3dmark dezoris, anybody got anything else they can post.

 

Thanks for the answer. I am able to confirm this. The technican, wo build in the missing SSD card, also have to swap the palm rest, because the right speeker grill was damaged. So I was able to see the bluetooth module.

This is a little more like the old modules. It does not have a seperate antenna and is seated under the left top corner of the palm rest.

I think, it the USA homepage is not correct. because they have there the posibility to configure the ssd card, the harddisk, the wlan and the wwan card.

For now, I use the internal ssd as a boot disk, because it is very fast. I think, when the wwan card is available in germay, i swap the ssd card to the wwan card und swap the 2.5" hdd to a 2.5 ssd.

The boot time with the mini pci express card from samsung is for Windows 7 Ultimate 3 seconds for the Bios and 12 seconds for the OS.
Compared to the 500 gbyte seagate hdd 7200rpm it is 2sec! for bios and 24 seconds for booting OS.

regards,
Dirk

 

Hello all, as of today I am also owner of M4500. I am mostly satisfied but there are some issues.
1) Keyboard flex, near letter H it can go like 1.5-2mm down. I had inspiron 6400 before and it had no flex what so ever.
2) Touchpad is way worse then the one on I6400 (it had synaptics)
3) I had dell wwan card 5530 around and decided to install it to m4500. So far it doesn't work because I am unable to install drivers (authentication error, contact dell support) the card itself is fine and it even shows in device manager as dell 5530 but with exclamation mark (no driver)
4) sometimes the fan turns itself on and off quickly (2s) like it doesn't know what to do. I guess it is because bad thermal tables with no overlap so the fan starts->temperature drops 1 degree->fan stops->temperature rises again->fan starts.....
5) CD drive is a bit flaky if you eject it it seems the tray will fall off...It works just fine it is just cosmetic issue I guess
6) all control lights use blue leds, I hate blue leds (what do they have with those anyway...)
7) no powered usb feature

Well I guess that is all, I think few of these issues will be resolved by firmware/bios update and I will get used to the others...

 

Hello all. I finally received my M4500 as well. Love it so far - except from one thing. I discovered 2 bright red dead pixels on the screen (got the 1920*1080 wled). Anyone else who found dead pixels on this display?

I contacted Dell and so far they told me that at least 6 dead pixels are required as it is not an ultrasharp panel. I bought complete care with the system. Should I push them harder or?

Thanks!

 

I7-620m, Quadro fx 880m, 4GB DDR3, Windows 7 X64
3DMark05@deafult settings: 13237 Points

 

You better should complain about a flickering screen or a white that is not white or sth. else.
2 dead pixels are indeed not enough to get a replacement.

 

I can confirm this behavior with mine as well.

 

My ssd was build in, windows installed an so I am able to make a speed test of the card.

Here is the Picture:



regards,
Dirk