M6400 Covet is Available - LED LCD as well - Page 2

I am still waiting for Dell Canada to have the new LED screens they still only list the standard WXGA and WUXGA screens.

well Dell Canada now has it listed 4100.00 starting price

thats why I'm looking at ebay.ca in spring 2009

lol

(from us reseller, not secondhand)

Do we know whether the video displayport is capable of sound too? The site says Dell dongles can be bought, but are they true HDMI (ie with sound?) or do we still have to use the stereo jack output?

DisplayPort supports Audio stream.
Until to Eight 24bit 192KHz channels are supported.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort

But Audio is optional and notebook manufacturer must implement it.
I.e. new Apple's notebooks have a DisplayPort connector but Apple not supports Audio on DisplayPort

Any sign of this review? Also, any actually got one yet?

well if your in the USA ZZPulp posted a coupon here worth 30% off and it owrks on the Covet drops the price to @ $2700.00 (good until end of today)

I wish that was good here in Canada I would have orderd it in a second

My god! The covet is roughly $5000 in the UK right now (minimal spec version)

Well, I took the plunge and ordered a Covet. My M6300 will be sitting sulking in the corner!

I heard mixed things about the keyboard- Some people say their's flexes a lot... I hope mine is ok. Oh, and it remains to be seen whether I'll actually like the orange colour! Fingers crossed.

looking forwad to your thoughts when you get it

Can you imagine what a dual 9800M GTX would do on this thing? Or the N10x 40nm chips coming next year?

Some things to note:
It has a desktop chipset, and 4 channels to memory, so if you are going for 8gb (for example) you are better off going 2/2/2/2 rather than 4/4. Working the memory controller may affect battery life however.

The pci-e connection to the GPU is x16 and 2.0 version, so there is a ton more bandwidth available, which "may" have been somewhat of a bottleneck on the old SLI 8800/9800 systems and old quadro systems. SLI 8800's are around 14k 3D06 and this is 12k so you have realize that putting SLI on this machine would probably yield some unbelievable mobile scores, as well as a fairly heavy machine (but I'd buy it).

Any ideas on the response time of the E2E display? I'd probably compromise on response time to gain the LED BLU as well as the higher gamut and contrast, but I'd want to be sure I wasn't blowing the response time through the roof and would hate to see a game on such a lovely screen.

The delay on the LED screens is to be expected. These are rare beasts but they are bound to be more plentiful in the months to come, and in 2009. Personally, if you know what a huge advance this screen is over the old ones, you'd be willing to wait whatever amount of months it would take to get one. I will be happy to wait.

Desktop chipset may also improve ICH speed, improving disk benchmarks somewhat (theoretical).

There is also an option for DDR3 1333 on this machine which the PM945 mobile Centrino 2 discreet chipset cannot yet do. I don't think anyone can afford the DDR3 @ 1333 yet, but it's worth noting as a future option when prices get more reasonable.

Docking station - wish they'd keep this if they move it over to the 1740 (guessing at the number of the 1730 replacement). I have one for my 1710 and it's handy. Dual displayports on the docking station means this machine will happily drive dual monitors, another huge plus for this new model.

You probably can't overclock the EE cpu's - most Precision models couldn't. But the Intel Extreme tuning utility may very well work on this chipset and thus it may allow you to overclock the cpu's anyway.

The orange is kind of ugly, but the E2E is expected to be available eventually on the black model. This is a case of "deal with the ugly orange" or wait patiently. I'll wait on that one.

We'll need to see some benchmarks for this thing. It truly is a very, very, very nice machine.

If the E2E display causes lag then I'm cancelling - No point in going one step forward and two steps back! Incidentally, I've seen reports that the CCFL screen is matte, but the UK site doesn't confirm this.

Also, as far as I'm aware there is no black model - I'd have gone for that if it were available. The case is actually silver.

Silver is ok. It's that flame orange that I can do without.

Incidentally, I just ran 3dMark06 on my M1730 (x9000,dual 8800gtx, physX) and got ~12500 (this isn't even a clean system), so the M6400 is a little behind on that benchmark. As I'm buying one I had hoped it would be slightly in front in order to justify the purchase! Mind you, I have changed from the stock Dell drivers, so that in itself might give the M6400 a push

I'm hopeful the 1730 replacement will combine SLI and the 6400's features. Nothing to base it on, just hopeful

Guys, it seems that neither Vista nor XP 32 bit have drivers for the Jog-shuttle feature. It is ONLY 64 bit! I'm not sure if Dell will be able to sort this out.

On a machine this powerful, and with 8gb of ram probable in it's future, why would you not use a 64 bit OS, such as Vista 64?

Seems like the tool and the use fit with this machine and 64 bit to me.

Because a lot of people have bought 32-bit software that doesn't work with the 64bit OS, and don't wish to have to buy/upgrade to another set. Plus, Dell don't say in there adverts "Actually, one of the great selling points of this laptop won't work for some of users ".

And, finally, my machine is shipping with a 32 bit OS and I don't have a spare 64 bit OS kicking around, and I'm not the sort to pirate software.... so I'm going to have to pay extra to have the jog shuttle unless I cancel my order and begin again.

Right, rant over.... Hopefully they'll just release some drivers! Oh, and I probably will go to 64 bit, but have it as dual-boot. But it would just be nice if the machine had the same features in both boots!

I gave up on 6i4 bit Vista, but been doing well with 64 bit XP