The Ultimate 600M Review

Its coming later on tonite possibly after dinner Have had this little bugger for around 3 days. So far so good.

sorry guys i have written some of it out in the text editor. However I would like to go down to my university tomorrow to pick up a copy of windows xp pro and reformat. I got hit hard with work in the last 2 days. Had to work like 2 9 hour days however. Alot of it is already written and will be posted tomorrow. Truely Accurate benchies might take a couple of days.

I was a little disappointed with my benchmark scores so in all fairness I went down to my university and got a copy of windows xp pro to reformat over this dell crap, plus xp home sucks. Also I just got my 512 stick of kingston PC2700 memory to bump me up to 768. So I proceeded to finish up my review in the next few hours but then my manager called from work because they are getting swamped with all the madden 05 sales that I have to go close tonite. However I have tomorrow off so I am going to post by tomorrow. I also got a chance to play with my girlfriends 8600 this weekend for comparison.

Ok guys finally I can get started on this sorry about all the waiting, but with college it has been alot of busier than I thought.

Ok here goes.

Specs:

600m (mine)
1.8ghz dothan
768 PC2700 ram(runs at 2100 speeds) 256 dell+512 kingston
40 gb 5400 rpm fuji hard drive
64mb ATI Mobility 9000
Intel 2200 Pro B/G wireless card
14.1 XGA Screen
Windows XP Pro

8600 (girlfriends)
1.6ghz dothan
512mb PC2700 ram 2x256 dell memory
60gb Hitachi 7200 rpm hard drive
64mb Geforce fx5200
Intel 2200 Pro B/G wireless card
15.4 SXGA Screen
Windows XP home

Problems: 600m

Keyboard flex: it is there and you will notice it right away. It does not bother me all that much but in comparsion to my bothers IBM T23, Inspiron 8600 and HP zt3000 basically I have yet to find a keyboard with more flex than the 600m it is really that bad and happens on most parts of the board. Keys are not all that quiet either in comparsion to the 8600. The 8600 keyboard feels softer and much quieter. However to me this is minor.

Left palmrest heat: off to sleep I have to work at 8 will up date when I get off work around 2. too tired to type.....sorry guys I promise i will be done this week. Benchmarks are low on the 600m as of now. my high has been 7000 on 3dmark 01

sorry guys its just that my girlfriend took my f-ing digital camera with her to new york and took it back with her to her home town she will be up friday and saturday will be my day off for sure now. Thanks dell sakor. I guess it has been crazy this past 2 weeks with college starting. Seems like something new comes up everyday. Oh and the new xbox got as well as madden and ncaa are not helping.