M6500

[crazyfoo]

I just ordered a Dell M6500 yesterday with a 940XM i7 quad core processor and 12gb of ram. Anyone else using this laptop and or chip? I am hoping it will be quite a step up from my ancient 32 bit laptop with only 2 gb of ram and a dual core processor.

I tried yesterday on my current laptop to import a few hundred raw photos from my new 7D, and lightroom stopped the import because it ran out of memory! I really can't wait two more weeks to get this new laptop.

[Rson]

You get a ssd drive in that? That will be your bottleneck.

[crazyfoo]

I had about maxed out my budget, so no SSD, I ordered a Seagate Momentus XT in its place. I am hopeful that drive will help with something!

I will eventually upgrade to SSD, but probably not until at least this summer.

[stephenpinn]

I have several Momentus XT drives and am very happy with them, not as fact as an SSD but significantly faster than a plain Momentus

[hitek_man_vn]

Originally Posted by crazyfoo

I just ordered a Dell M6500 yesterday with a 940XM i7 quad core processor and 12gb of ram. Anyone else using this laptop and or chip? I am hoping it will be quite a step up from my ancient 32 bit laptop with only 2 gb of ram and a dual core processor.

I tried yesterday on my current laptop to import a few hundred raw photos from my new 7D, and lightroom stopped the import because it ran out of memory! I really can't wait two more weeks to get this new laptop.

I am using a M4500 with I7-940, and yes it is a monster but mine is with 128GB SSD (i changed the 7200rpm 500gb as soon as I received the laptop, too slow for a monster.) M6500 has 2 HDD bays so a RAID array is a have-to-consider upgrade. 2 Momentus XT in RAID 0,1 is gonna change your computer experience entirely. If you have more budget, 2 SSDs instead of 2 Momentus is another level of mobile extreme workstation. Or 1 SSD in JBOD mode also rocks already.

[crazyfoo]

Originally Posted by hitek_man_vn

I am using a M4500 with I7-940, and yes it is a monster but mine is with 128GB SSD (i changed the 7200rpm 500gb as soon as I received the laptop, too slow for a monster.) M6500 has 2 HDD bays so a RAID array is a have-to-consider upgrade. 2 Momentus XT in RAID 0,1 is gonna change your computer experience entirely. If you have more budget, 2 SSDs instead of 2 Momentus is another level of mobile extreme workstation. Or 1 SSD in JBOD mode also rocks already.

wow not sure why I did not consider just buying two of the drives, I guess I will purchase a second XT. I am not concerned with redundancy since my server backs everything up, so I guess I will give Raid 0 a try. I have never set up a Raid Array before, do you know if this is something difficult to do on this laptop? It must have a raid controller built in because Raid is offered from the factory, right?