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Installing Win7 on mSATA SSD drive

Posted on April 12, 2013 by cmexonat

Some time ago I managed to move Win7 to mSATA SSD drive. As I posted before to do this I pulled off HDD drive to make mSATA SSD drive the only one in the system. After that installation goes as … Continue reading →

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Booting up on battery issue

Posted on April 12, 2013 by cmexonat

I had no time to share with you this issue I noticed on my Dell M4500 laptop. Since I installed Win7 onto mSATA SSD disk once I tried to boot on the battery I failed to do this. After I … Continue reading →

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How to upgrade DELL Precision M4500 up to 16GB RAM

Posted on March 21, 2013 by cmexonat

Disclaimer! AFAIK You may install 16GB of RAM for QuadCore system only! If you have DualCore processor it’s limited to 8GB. Yesterday I have got my upgrade kit from Germany, the 1TB HDD and 16GB RAM. Surprisingly, parcel arrived in two … Continue reading →

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mSATA SSD arrived!

Posted on March 15, 2013 by cmexonat

Hi there! Today I’ve got 128GB SATA minicard for my Dell Precision M4500 laptop. As you may remember I posted about this SSD drive here. I’ve ordered it month ago from Hong Kong ebayer, this is the link to the item. Firstly … Continue reading →

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Make It Habitable

Posted on March 13, 2013 by cmexonat

Hi, I’m moving forward in making laptop habitable, if I would allowed to say so  🙂 Keyboard led lighting is so pleasing in the night time. For even more comfortable working it lacks the most powerfull processor, which was build … Continue reading →

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Got it finally

Posted on March 10, 2013 by cmexonat

Yesterday I finally got my DELL Precision M4500. It was about 4 weeks long “express” delivery from USA to Russia. Now it is home. For the next step I’m waiting for mSATA Samsung SSD 128GB drive from HongKong, I’ll put … Continue reading →

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Upgrade is on the way

Posted on March 6, 2013 by cmexonat

Few days ago I’ve ordered from Germany an upgrade kit to my newcoming DELL M4500. That is RAM of Crucial brand, which I was told should be DELL-compatible. But it’s Mac-memory however, but I think it’s O’k as long as … Continue reading →

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eGPU is the way to boost up laptop rendering power

Posted on February 17, 2013 by cmexonat

Recently I googled an interesting posts about how one could expand laptop graphics subsystem greatly. Yes, it’s about external GPU. One just need to plug such thing as PE4H kit in a laptop’s ExpressCard slot. You can plug in it any … Continue reading →

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Samsung / DELL 128GB SSD MSATA PCI-E SSD HARD DRIVE MZMPA128HMFU-00000

Posted on February 15, 2013 by cmexonat

Today I got bought from ebay mSATA SSD Card of 128GB for my new coming DELL. Hope it would be enough for all my software. Well, now I’ll be waiting for it to arrive via Chinese registered mail. But the … Continue reading →

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Got new old workstation

Posted on February 14, 2013 by cmexonat

Recently I managed to order portable workstation DELL M4500 to work with my 3D/After Effects stuff on the wheels. The specs are as follows: CPU i7 720qm GPU nVidia Quadro FX 1800M 1GB 1900×1080 FHD LCD 4GB DDR3 RAM 160GB … Continue reading →

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