Dell Precision M3800 - 2013!

WiGig is supposed to be very secure by the way, especially since it's such a short range.

 

You bet your financial security on it? Mine has been compromised twice. No thanks.

 

Your WiGig was compromised? What kind of WiGig do you have?

 

What is the maximum ram for m3800?

I need 32gb. Hope it has 4 memory slots.

 

2 slots / 16GB

 

Thanks. I was wishing it has 4 slots then it will be perfect!
I guess I need to wait for m4800.

 

I get it: legions of people love Apple products, so its only natural that Dell (and others) should want a piece of that market. So long as they don't stop offering the things that I chose Dell for in the first place, I'm OK with that.

 

This model is utterly disgusting, Dell is spitting in the face of the professionals who expect a laptop that looks like a professional's tool with a classic keyboard, instead of a toy for hipster kids. Dell is ruining the elite Precision line, just like Lenovo ruined the ThinkPad line.

Is there any company that still makes laptops without these atrocious features, something built like a tank with a classic sane keyboard? From what I could see, the Precision line was the last stand. Now even it is no more. This is truly sad. I wanted to get one once one was released with a high resolution LCD matrix, but now I see that day will never happen.

 

To be fair, there are no news on the M4800 and M6800 yet.

 

Everything we have seen so far suggests that this device will come in addition to the M4800 and the M6800. I wouldn't say that Dell has done anything to ruin the Precision series until they are released. Maybe they screwed them up, maybe they're better than ever. I think this laptop looks fine. If they went into the direction of Alienware with their professional laptops I might be a little uncomfortable with the gaudy red and green keyboard backlighting, but the XPS and Apple laptops which this device emulates look fine for business use, in my opinion. It's not like it's the first time Dell has redesigned the Precision line. On the topic of the keyboard I don't see the reason for Dell ditching the numpad, not that I personally find it particularly useful given that the number keys above the qwerty keyboard provides easier access to letters and laptop pointer controls to begin with. Other than that the keyboard on the M3800 looks promising to me. Chiclet keys keys have larger top surfaces, where you actually put your fingers to type, and they provide better separation of keys than most other styles of keyboard. I don't understand the purpose of slanted surfaces down the sides of laptop keyboards at all. The problem that I have with many newer keyboards is flimsiness. Many laptops, including the newer Thinkpads, have keyboards that you can remove to add in some more RAM. Most of these keyboards do not have the reinforcement of Macbook Pros or older Thinkpads, and will flex while you type. I don't know if it actually reduces typing speed, but it creates the feeling of it being a very cheap device. As far as the construction quality is concerned this device is built for much higher mobility than the M4800 and M6800, so I wouldn't expect quite as much magnesium-alloy reinforcement. However, aluminum, gorilla glass and carbon fiber are hardly the weakest materials available for laptop manufacturers. It might actually be able to dodge some of the weaknesses in the construction of the older Precision laptops ( Dell M6700 Review Part 01 - YouTube ).