Hello,
I am happy to see such a kind of activity and well done community.
I am looking for a new mobile unit and do not know exactly, what will be best for my needs, so I like to ask you some questions and hopefully will get the needed answer to fulfill my personal needs doing the right decision.
DELL notebooks are well known for its quality and there are some models I am interesting in, but did not figured out, what will be the best. I saw, that one member did a very nice BIOS mod for the M4300, which would be awesome, specially, if it will be a hassle free work based on upcoming OS upgrades.
So, models of my choice are: M4300, M6300 or the newer M4400
My questions are:
- is it possible to install a UMTS card with that units only with "installing" the right PCIe card or do they need any additionally work (antenna, SIM card slot)?
- does anyone tried or can be helpful with an 8GByte RAM upgrade (any kind of experience with this)?
- what exactly does the BIOS mod work for:
:- is it "only" for a hassle free kind of installation?
:- is it working transparent (like EFI-X) or does it need any kind of boot procedure?
:- is it covering any kind of OS upgrade problems?
- is the BIOS mod working for the M6300 too?
- could not find any information about the M4400, does there exist any user with experience on it?
- I like the heavy and alu design of the M6300 and would like to get known, if it will be the same with the M4300?
- any experience about battery usage under MacOS X Lion are welcome
There are plenty of interesting offers on eB... and it is hard to decide. Is the D830-NVidia perfectly suited as well as a M4300 or are there any significant difference with the body case?
Kind Regards and thank you in advance