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My Dell M60

post #1 of 17
10/1/03 at 9:12pm
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I ordered the M60 last night and saved approximatley $950 with coupons and discounts that were all stackable . The m60 is only available through Small Business or Medium/Large Business, so I got TAXed, but a small fee for the deal I recieved.

Discounts:
$500 OFF Dell Instant Discount
$200 OFF M60 Coupon from techbargains.com
10% OFF Business coupon I bought off eBay
Free 3-5 Day shipping

Total Cost was just under $2,000.00.

1.40 GHz Pentium® M Processor
15.4" WUXGA
Floppy Drive, Internal/External
Support/Warranty 3Yr Parts + Onsite Labor (Next Business Day)
OS Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, (Service Pack 1)
Memory 256MB, DDR SDRAM Memory (2 DIMMS)
Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN (802.11b/g,54Mbps) miniPCI card
Battery 9-Cell Primary Battery
Boot Hard Drives 40GB ATA-100 IDE (5400 rpm)
Modular Bay Devices Internal 8-24-24-24X SWDVD/CDRW Combo
Modem Internal 56K Modem
NVIDIA® Quadro FX Go700™ 4XAGP graphics w/128MB DDR Video

I am planning on ordering memory from Crucial, once I recieve My M60. I will also upgrade my hard drive to 7200RPM drive when they become less expensive. They are a fairly recent technology for notebooks, so there price is still a premium. Well, higher than I wanted to pay.

Today, I am already in Production.
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post #2 of 17
10/1/03 at 10:15pm
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Does anybody know anything aboutthe performance of the NVIDIA Quadro FX Go700?
How does it compare with the NividiaFX 5650/5600 and/or the Radeon 9600 Pro?
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post #3 of 17
10/1/03 at 11:01pm
In 3smark03 i scored 3000 with the stock drivers on my m60, and then i ignorantly installed desktop drivers, score went down to 1500, installed the right drivers, but some of the desktop crap is still there 2700...
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post #4 of 17
10/1/03 at 11:39pm
Loki, which drivers did you reinstall to get those numbers? I would appreciate it if you could post this for all of us M60 owners!!! Thanks
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post #5 of 17
10/1/03 at 11:52pm
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M60 owners

M60 owners:
How long did it ake to go thruogh production?
Are u overall satified with the purchase? NE complaints?
Did anyone recieve dead pixels?
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post #6 of 17
10/2/03 at 8:58am
Complaints? yes... the laptop seems a little too "pretty" and consquently not very resistant to minor scratches like the laptops of old. other than that, nothing.
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post #7 of 17
10/2/03 at 10:37am
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Well....Im sorry to hear that.....lol

Sound like a complaint I can live with.
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post #8 of 17
10/2/03 at 5:18pm
no dead pixels here and i looked for em. As for the drivers they are the same ones that come on the driver disk given by dell.. What are u guys running score wise?
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post #9 of 17
10/8/03 at 5:57am

Re: M60 owners

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Originally posted by FlyPaper
M60 owners:
How long did it ake to go thruogh production?
Are u overall satified with the purchase? NE complaints?
Did anyone recieve dead pixels?
Got mine in less than a week from the day I made the payment! I was in Malaysia at the time though.

Very satisfied, no dead pixels.
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post #10 of 17
10/8/03 at 8:18pm
Quote:
Originally posted by FlyPaper
Does anybody know anything aboutthe performance of the NVIDIA Quadro FX Go700?
How does it compare with the NividiaFX 5650/5600 and/or the Radeon 9600 Pro?
I'm wondering the same...I haven't found any definitive answers..

As soon as a nice 3.2 GHz 4M HT is available with one of those cards I'll buy a laptop
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post #11 of 17
10/8/03 at 9:19pm
just check the 3dmark scores. Those have been posted everywhere
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post #12 of 17
10/8/03 at 10:04pm
A lot of people will say the 3dmark scores are unreliable, so I don't know what else to go on
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post #13 of 17
10/8/03 at 11:17pm
yeah but it gives you some idea...
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post #14 of 17
12/30/03 at 1:04pm

m60 3dmark 03 score

Hi Loki,
Could you post your 3dmark score details ?
I have an m60 and ran 3dmark03 with default drivers and updated drivers from dell site (16.10.4482,a01) and i score both times around 1850...
Any idea what causes that big difference?
thanks for your help.
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post #15 of 17
12/30/03 at 5:08pm
Yeah i will unfortunately i just had to reformat and i have had a chance to benchmark it yet. I will soon tho
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post #16 of 17
12/30/03 at 8:23pm
Loki
Can you go over the discounts that you received again. Those sound like some pretty terrific discounts and might make the M60 a viable option.
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post #17 of 17
12/30/03 at 10:25pm
unfortunately, I did not get any discounts from dell sorry, But u can check fatwallet and stuff like that. I bought my m60 in late august before the other dell centrino with the 128 vid card came out. I woudl recommend to save some money and go with those.
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