Dell Precision M3800 - 2013!

Wouldn't hold your breath. Sharp ain't making IGZO panels bigger than 15" for notebooks due to lack of demand / volume. Desktop sizes - sure, but again no-one uses 17-19" monitors on desks these days.

 

With the Blackmagic Ultrastudio hardware, we do everything with USB 3.0 now.

 

expt pro tools=)

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so if i want top quality display i must go for igzo m3800/m4800?

 

Mac has always had the greater integration with ProTools. Although the gap has narrowed as of late, that still hasn't entirely changed. If that's your main use, go with Mac.

 

How configurable should I expect the 3800 to be? Way back I remember Dells being extremely flexible, but it looks like the 4800 is comes in 4 flavors.

 

I don't expect the M3800 to be that configurable, but I do expect more options for the M4800 and M6800 at some point. I've seen somewhere that Dell had some supply problems with Intel CPUs and that was delaying some CTO as well as the M3800.

 

i heard macs a bit hot also dont wanna to learn os X and dont like screen resolution:/

 

If you are going to use the CPU and GPU intensively at the same time, yeah they will.

The regular MBP has the fan exhaust and intakes side by side, talk about recirculating hot air...
The rMBP has a better engineering cooling scheme, but due to how thin it is, it still has trouble keeping everything cool under the type or load mentioned above. The power supply is also anemic, 90 W IIRC and it would take a 120 W PSU ideally.
Apple is also "shy" about making the fans rev faster because of the noise so they lock them at low RPM. I know that for older models, people hacked the fans to run at higher speeds to keep the notebook cooler.

Sure a Precision under full load sounds like a jet taking off, but on mine at least, I always had a good 10 degrees below T[SUB]j[/SUB] when stressing the machine and full turbo. With the 55 W heatsink, it's even better, but that's not exactly factory standard for a 45 W CPU.

 

@tijo

hope m3800 will have good cooling solution

 

I don't see it being any worse than that of the rMBP, might be better too, but so far, all laptops that thing with similar TDP have had reports of throttling when both the CPU and GPU are used fully simultaneously. If we're lucky, there will be nothrottling, if we're mildly luck, we'll loose only the turbo frequency on the CPU and if we're unlucky, the CPU will drop down to 800 MHz or something close to that frequency until it cools down enough.

This is just a guess on my part, but for laptops that thin, I'd bet the prototypes and engineering samples have better paste jobs than the production models which results in the engineering phases reporting adequate cooling, but the production batch having mixed results.