Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge *Part 2*

Sounds like a whole different 'buying experience' in Poland. We presently have a houseful of Polish students doing all kinds of volunteer work and they are great and fun people to get to know. I am still trying to understand the great humor they find in the Polish language (which I gotta admit is pretty strange). I do computer translations of English into Polish and they usually end up on the floor howling with laughter.

I never knew Dell even had stores, I thought they were all online purchase only. Might have heard of plans to open stores but never heard anymore about it.

Besides paying a premium just for the Sony name (in Costa Rica anyway) the ones I've seen and/or used didn't impress me at all. I'll have to go look at this Precision level 'workstation' your talking about. It must be new or something because all I see are these small Vaio things that are all plastic and look and feel it. Take a chance on a better machine and go Dell. Otherwise I won't get my commission.

And they have no Dell Outlet store in Poland? Now that's a real shame.

 

If Dell wants to sell online (cost-effective way probably) that's fine. But why in a biggest city in a country with lots and lots of businesses and virtually no unemployement, in their own HQ they cannot have one copy of each model?

M6400 is top of the line for Dell, right? And they don't have even a single copy in their HQ? Do they even know what they're selling? How can a Dell rep can be trustworthy for me if I'm sure he never had M6400 in his hands and is talking about something he saw in pictures?

And speaking about Sony - those models I was thinking about are available (good price too) in UK, Italy and couple of other EU countries. In Poland, surprise surprise, they're not. Better yet, all guys from Sony Poland with whom I spoke didn't know nothing about RGBLED screens, and when I enlighted them, they wouldn't say when these machines would be available in Poland.

The situation when a customer knows merchandise better than a seller with a salary, sorry, it troubles the mind.

If I ran my business like them I'd go broke ages ago

Sorry for a little OT, I'm pretty dissapointed with this whole situation. I just hope someone from Dell PR management would read this, grab a phone and ask Polish Dell HQ "what the hell were you thinking?"

But nah, it's not going to happen.

 

That doesn't work for me. Two of the 4 boxes are empty with the one where I would expect an address saying "there is no contact information". So, for whatever reason, I am shut out.

In any case, please send to @@[email protected] (remove the first two @@s), which is easily changed if I start to get spam.

Thanks again.

 

Honestly I never have even given it a thought, but I suppose you're right. I've just always bought them online and always got what I expected. Never had to return anything unless I'd broken it.

And sorry for you if you go with the Sony over the Precision. I can't say I'd recommend all Dells but the Precision line's been very good to me and Sony's, a lot like the one Toshiba I have just look and feel cheap to me. I live in a tourist town and pretty much all the banks, shops and resturants are mostly Dell. I figure as long as you have one of the overnight shippers available why not bring the store to your house I guess. If I was a Lenovo user I'd probably feel the same way, the big names all have pretty easy return or exchange policies but I don't really know that for a fact either. Good luck with whatever way you go.

 

I just emailed you but this is just so you don't think I'm on a different planet or insane. More in the email...

 

Hello M6400 + QX9300 owners,

Just got the QX9300 (upgrade from P8600) and placed on my Dell M6400 yesterday and having some questions...

1.I notice from Lavalys Everest that shows that sometimes the QX operates 10% overclocked (2800MHz - 10.5 x 267).Is this normal or?
2. Dell Bios (v A07) has this ability (of changing the multipliers) locked. Is there another way? Did anybody tried to flash to 0.28 OCZ bios...? I shaow older posts, just wanted to know if there is any progress from Dell or from users on this matter.
3.So as a consequence I cannot use then the Intel's XTU (extreme tuning utility) for this mobile processor?, nor the XMP (extreme memory profile)..do I?

Thank you

 

Webcam/mic are just a convenience - with skype especially.

The M6400 works just fine with photoshop and filters - as you may expect. It also handles some pretty heavy workloads in terms of more unconventional image processing.

I do not have this issue. If you try and calibrate the display without using the native white point you can get some very strange effects with viewing angles showing it as either too blue or too pink (don't do that ), but my panel is pretty much consistent across the board, no dead pixels, great colour reproduction. Panel's do vary of course - if you are not happy you should return the machine/get a replacement - Dell's attitude seems positive to make customers happy for this high end machine.

It essentially does - It has both express card and pc card slots. Just add a pc-card to CF adapter (they are increadibly cheap) and you have what you need.

Paul.

 

Yes, that is "Intel Dynamic Accleration" at work - when multiple cores are idle, 2 cores can shut down, and this provides the thermal/power space to increase the multiplier by 1 increment (266 MHz).

Dell has officially stated that because overclocking voids theirs and Intel's warranties, they will not allow or enable any OC features (this being a "business notebook", especially). The only way to OC I know of would be to get the PLL from the motherboard supported in SetFSB.

Right, because that would require BIOS support. Modded BIOS, anyone?

 

Have you ever tried this? Any guide somewhere?

I am gonna write to Michael Dell for this!

 

With overclocking disabled what is the difference between the QX9300 and a 'non-extreme' one of the same speed? Everything I've been able to find says the only difference is the ability to overclock and the price (and I forgot the heat). Since my QX9300 essentially didn't cost me anything I'm not trying to figure out if I got hosed on the price or anything but would like to know if the thing has capabilities I'm not using, It's plenty fast in the config it's in now and I'm certainly not complaining about it but am curious.