M6400

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited May 15, 2009 in The Big Picture
I did purchase various lappies for kids and relatives, but never felt the need to get one for myself. Finally, all the tethered-shooting needs and on-site activities broke me in, so I finally bit the bullet and ordered myself an laptop - my very first one ever:-).

Here are brief specs:

Dell M6400
quad core 2.53Ghz
4GB RAM
nvidia 1GB video
17" UWXGA (with built-in 2.0mp webcam and mike)
2x64GB solid state(!) drives (and I can use my desktop as file server)
Vista Ultimate 64bit
DVD, card readers, etc.

As a temporary version (no funds for transmitting grip yet) also ordered 15ft USB2.0 cable.

Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll know firsthand what advantages all this portabilty really brings. But I already envision the lack of need to get off the TV chair just to reply for a quick email :wink :rofl
"May the f/stop be with you!"

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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2009
    Show us the prooof ? Unpacking shots ?

    Model name sounds like a Machine Gun headscratch.gif
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  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2009
    Nikolai wrote:
    I did purchase various lappies for kids and relatives, but never felt the need to get one for myself. Finally, all the tethered-shooting needs and on-site activities broke me in, so I finally bit the bullet and ordered myself an laptop - my very first one ever:-).

    Here are brief specs:

    Dell M6400
    quad core 2.53Ghz
    4GB RAM
    nvidia 1GB video
    17" UWXGA (with built-in 2.0mp webcam and mike)
    2x64GB solid state(!) drives (and I can use my desktop as file server)
    Vista Ultimate 64bit
    DVD, card readers, etc.

    As a temporary version (no funds for transmitting grip yet) also ordered 15ft USB2.0 cable.

    Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll know firsthand what advantages all this portabilty really brings. But I already envision the lack of need to get off the TV chair just to reply for a quick email mwink.gifrolleyes1.gif

    Sounds like a good machine Nik, unfortunately it uses a Microsoft operating system.rolleyes1.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2009
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    Show us the prooof ? Unpacking shots ?

    Model name sounds like a Machine Gun headscratch.gif
    Thus far the only proof I have is the order#. rolleyes1.gif I'll surely take a couple of snapshots once it arrives... deal.gifmwink.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2009
    dlplumer wrote:
    Sounds like a good machine Nik, unfortunately it uses a Microsoft operating system.rolleyes1.gif
    As we all know, Apple machines can't run Star*Explorer, so what good it would be to me? mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2009
    Nikolai wrote:
    As we all know, Apple machines can't run Star*Explorer, so what good it would be to me? mwink.gif

    I was just playing Nik, but on a serious note, I never heard of Star Explorer till just now. Did you create it? It looks very cool thumb.gif What would it cost me to have my smugmug site customized?
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2009
    dlplumer wrote:
    I was just playing Nik, but on a serious note, I never heard of Star Explorer till just now. Did you create it? It looks very cool thumb.gif What would it cost me to have my smugmug site customized?
    I was just playing, too:-)
    Being a windows junkie, as I am, it's always fun to tease my apple-toting friends...iloveyou.gif
    Although I was, too, serious about S*E being a Windows-only app. Creating something like that for mac would mean investing several $K in the hardware and at least a year of making it right (unlike end-user stuff, development tools (Xcode) on apple are totally pre-historic comparing to thier windows counterparts :cry ). So even if I get a hundred or two of totally extatic users after I'm done I still will be deeply in red, which will take me years to recover...ne_nau.gif

    As to the smugmug customization... I don't do it myself (I'm more like a back-end guy by trade: architecture, databases, processes and threads, optimization, refactoring, etc.), but I can wholeheartedly recommend http://www.wolfsnap.com/smugization
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited May 15, 2009
    Returned this one, got another version:
    same CPU: quad 2.53
    same videocard (1Gb) - and nVivia has un updated driver for Windows 7RC already!
    better screen: RGB LED Edge-2-Edge 17"
    more RAM: 8Gb instead of 4Gb
    more hards drives: 160+320. Yes, no SSD this time, but I figured I'll manage, I'm not planning on extensive battery usage anyway:-)
    Should arrive tomorrow! :ivar
    PS
    And the best news: I will be in black by Monday!
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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