Precision M4500 Owner's Lounge

I'm thinking about getting this laptop and putting a 250 GB SATA drive in the second bay, and dual-booting 7 on the main drive and XP on the second drive. Has anyone done this? Do you guys think there would be any problems?

 

My M4500 shipping date has been delayed twice now, supposedly they are out of i7-820's, and RAM. No commit date, which is scarier... they are hoping by the EOM? If I want a slower proc and ram, they can deliver sooner. yech.

 

Someone else will surely correct me if I'm wrong but...

The m4500 doesn't really have 2 full size drive bays. It has one full size (2.5") drive bay where you can put in a SATA drive. If you want another drive you have to order it with the 64 gig mini card SSD that they offer on the website. According to dell when you try and configure the 64 gig card has to be the primary.

Or optionally, you can get the adapter that allows you to install a drive where the DVD drive goes (of course losing the DVD drive in the process).

 

Also, why do you want XP?

 

I agree, but what's the problem here? Just take the stickers off. I do that with every laptop I get.

 

Hallo Forum,

after buying a M4500 and testing it a while, I will get another one by my job.

First thought was, to sell the M4400 and keep both M4500 but the prices for a 2 year old system is not very good. So if anyone in germany is interested, I can sell him the M4500 für 2000€. I think this is a very good price?

Here are the specs:

Bestellmenge Artikelbeschreibung Artikelnummer
1 Precision M4500 : Standard Basis 210-31156
1 Processor Arrandale : One Intel Core i7-620M(2.66GHz,4MB,Dual Core,35W) 213-11406
1 Handauflage : Smart Card und kein Fingerabdruck-Lesegerät 214-10221
1 Instant On : Precision ON Reader 226-10023
1 Labels : Intel Core Label I7 227-10006
1 Display : 15,6Zoll High Definition+ (1600X900) WLED LCD Display 230-11337
1 Camera : Software for Integrated Camera (Only for standard Base ) 319-10387
1 Kamera : Integriert 2,0 Megapixel Kamera mit Mikrofon 319-10432
1 LCD Back Cover : Silver with White Led 320-11233
1 Documentation : German Shipping Docs 340-15465
1 Ressourcen-DVD : Precision M4500 Diagnoseprogramme und Treiber 340-21320
1 Memory : 8GB (2x4096) 1066MHz DDR3 Dual Channel 370-17929
1 Hard Drive : 64GB Solid State Drive Mini Card 400-20525
1 Additional Hard Drive : 500GB (7200 Rpm) Serial ATA 401-12459
1 Optical Drive : Roxio Creator 10.3 Software and Media Included 429-12469
1 Optisches Laufwerk : 8x DVD+/-RW Laufwerk ohne Software 429-13143
1 Optical Media : Power DVD 8.3 Software 429-15100
1 Power Supply And Power Cord : Worldwide 130W AC Adapter with European Power Cord 450-11970
1 Akku : Hauptakku 6 Zellen 60Wh 451-11278
1 keine Notebooktasche 460-10178
1 Grafikkarte : 1 GB NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M (mit 1GB dediziertem Speicher) 45W 490-11967
1 Modem : Weltweit Intern 56,6K V.92 530-12205
1 Wireless : Dell Wireless 375 Bluetooth 555-12894
1 Wireless : EMEA Intel Pro Wireless 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Minikarte 555-12900
1 Tastatur : Intern Deutsch Qwertz Tastatur mit Hintergrundbeleuchtung 583-13528
1 Software Driver : Mobile Precision M4500 613-10854
1 Operating System : German Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate (64Bit OS) 619-19934
1 ohne Recovery-CD 620-10519
1 No Intel vPro Secure Advanced Hardware Enabled Systems Management 631-10573
1 Windows Live 641-10011
1 ohne Antiviren Software 650-10461
1 Base Warranty 709-10011
1 3Yr Basic Warranty - Next Business Day - Minimum Warranty 709-10187
1 3Yr ProSupport for End Users and Next Business Day On-Site Service 710-10200
1 Declined CompleteCare 712-10057
1 Zur Zeit ist keine Auftragsinformation verfügbar. 800-10889
1 Asset Service - Shipbox Label (Customer PO, Model, Processor, HDD, RAM, Svc Tag) 888-10020
1 Free Freight 990-10586

regards,
Dirk

 

Works fine on the M4400 with newmodeus caddy or the cheap ebay ones without the locking latch, the M4500 uses the same drive bay parts going by the fact a E6510 owner is using the same module, F8 at bios, choose which drive/OS you want to boot to.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...tude-e-precision-m-series-second-2-5-hdd.html

 

I managed to get it working in linux so it isn't compatibility issue, just bad dell drivers issue

 

I've got some old programs and games that don't work in Win7.

 

FYI, Windows 7 has a optional XP mode that allows you to run old apps that are only compatible with XP. I have one old app that requires XP, but I use VMware in the work I do, so I just run the app in a XP virtual machine there.