Precision M4500 Owner's Lounge

Anyone know why the ship times are so long for the M4500? I ordered one towards the end of May, and the ship date is still saying end of June. Not happy with that.

 

Dell's supplier of panels, webcams and SSDs are experiencing delays. At least according to my rep. Mine came in 2 weeks after the original expected arrival date.

 

I can confirm what you are seeing as well as to a fix. When mine arrived, I had the stuttering at first boot. Typically went away after 2 or 3 minutes only to come back after a reboot. I reinstalled Windows from scratch and did not install the DCP software. No stuttering whatsoever.

 

Well, either no one wanted to share, or no one had the 64GB mini-card. In case anyone's interested. Here are the results of the ATTO benchmark. I've included the one for my OCZ Agility for reference. As you can see, read speeds are quite good, but write speeds are OK. To be expected though.

 

Anyone expirienced this:

YouTube - Dell Precision M4500 Heat Burn Mark After Removing From Dock

I just found this on web...?

 

yep...I'm on my 3rd system because of it and this one is doing it too. They upgraded the screen to see if it could withstand the heat..but i keep thinking that maybe they should do something about the heat instead...

my last one went to engineering and they are supposed to check it out..

cheers

 

I thought that they had better cooling design than almost all of competitors (namely HP 8540w) but now it seems that this heat has to "go somewhere" and direction that it chooses affects screen THAT much!
C#ad , could You check is this only issue when docked? I mean does cooling work ok when undocked (on AC) ?

 

That is correct...and more specifically...it is only an issue when the computer is docked and has the lid closed...the heat seems to come up around the F7/F8 keys

 

This is just scarry, if lid is closed then imagine how hot mainboard components could be!!! That is because of "upside_down" mainboard design. I'm really confused with this? From physical point of view , heat dissipate "up" ... so mainboard is "in the way", then keyboard, then ... LCD and last lcd cover. If such heat is generated I doubt that it'll last for 3yrs. Seems that 45 Watt CPU is just too much. Did it happened also with Core i7 620/ i5 540 ?

 

Just to add , I'm very happy owner of Dell E6400, P8600 2,4GHz (25 Watt) and it's happy with ambient temp reaching 27C in room, CPU has 35C (surfing web). There is also GMA and no discrete graphics ...
I am almost amazed with it! Old Lenovo on T5500 1,6 GHz is 45C (35Watt) in same conditions.
I'm not product vendor biased. I just like good design.