Dell Precision M3800 Owner's Review

I can't connect Nokia 920 (windows phone) via bluetooth, it keeps disconnecting after pairing, strange because my bluetooth mouse works perfectly. Anybody have any experience with connection via bluetooth?

 

Seems there's a problem about connecting smartphone and xps15 (so even m3800) with USB port and bluetooth.
Many users are reporting this issue on XPS 15 thread moreover a new thread is started about this problem:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=739614

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 con Tapatalk 2

 

Can anyone fill me in on Dell Premier? I was looking to buy the m3800 for my business, maybe even a few. So I started the sign up process the other day, and then it just says, "A Dell rep will call you to complete the process" after I fill out name, etc. Then nobody calls and I don't have a password to start with it. What does this get me with Premier, and is there a fee? They don't really tell you much. i guess you are just supposed to know. Is it more for IT people? I really just wanted to option to custom configure and maybe get better support and purchasing chain of command. I am now in limbo on my purchase wondering to deal with this Premier or screw it. Anyone know?

 

As far as I know, Premier is for medium to large-size businesses, not small businesses and definitely not for the occasional single order for an individual (even if for a business). But I've never set one up from scratch, so I could be off. The benefits are that you're assigned a rep that serves as your single point of contact for purchasing as well as getting pre-sales questions answered (and those answers are typically retrieved from engineers, so they're much more reliable than the random Dell retail reps), and of course you get discounts depending on volume. You also get a custom Web store, so for example you can show only the models that your company would actually order, save custom configurations of that model so you don't have to make the same customizations every single time you want to order a certain spec, and back when every individual component was customizable, you could even show only certain OPTIONS for that component -- so for example if you wanted a default spec for your company that standardized on a Full HD panel but wanted the option to upgrade to a QHD+ panel in some cases, but you also knew you'd never ever order the 1366x768 option, you could set Full HD as the default, with QHD as an option, and no 1366x768 option at all. It's a great feature if you as the IT person need to control the machines and configurations that enter the corporate environment, but other departments actually submit the orders or at least prepare them for your sign-off. And if you're a REALLY good/valuable customer, you occasionally get pre-release samples of upcoming models like bokeh did, which started off this thread in the first place.

An alternative means of getting a custom config might be using the phone or chat option even in the regular Home/Work segment. I know that at least one person has gotten either an M3800 or an XPS 15 in a non-standard config by working with a sales rep through that channel.

 

Thanks so much for the info. If only Dells sight said it this well. My business is under 10 people, which is an option in the signup, but I am probably not worth their time. It would be nice if they just gave some minimum requirements instead of making it so ambiguous.

 

My dad's business is 5 people and he averages about $5K/year in spending (though it's usually concentrated in replacing all his workstations in one shot every 4 years and doing the same with his server and tape drive at around the same interval). He doesn't have a Premier site (which wouldn't be worth Dell's time to provide or my dad's time to customize since he's not constantly ordering machines), and actually I'm not sure he's even technically classified as a Premier account at all, but he does have a rep and gets small discounts. You may hear back from Dell with an arrangement like that, but if you don't want to wait and you're only ordering one system at the moment, I'd investigate the online chat or phone ordering methods for your non-standard order.

 

I have tried that with a few Dell reps and no luck. Dell's marketing strategy now is to either give you the Honda or the Rolls Royce pre-configured choices, with nothing in between. Nobody else seems to be phased in the least by Dell dropping custom configurations. Am I the only one?

 

You're not the only one. I'm sad too, but it's an inevitable consequence of where most of the PC market is going. Fewer and fewer buyers still care about exact specs and learning the benefits and considerations involved with each component; they just want a machine that will accomplish a given task and don't care precisely how much CPU or RAM it has, plus more and more people can do more and more of their casual activity on a smartphone or tablet, so a full-blown PC is increasingly seen less as a special big-ticket item and more as either a basic commodity or something that can be done without entirely -- and either perception means that prices have to come down to keep them appealing. It's also cheaper for Dell to offer only a few templates (still built-to-order rather than pre-built and kept in inventory, just with fewer options) rather than allow mix-and-match specs because a template-based strategy decreases the risk of building an order incorrectly and then having to build it again. And to be fair, it does seem that Dell is at least passing those savings on to the customer. If you look at the high end of the Inspiron line (the 7000 Series), those systems are a few hundred bucks cheaper than the equivalent model a few years ago would have been, even before adjusting for inflation. Same goes for the Latitudes and even Alienware. And for an even clearer example, the top-tier Precision M90 I bought in late 2006 was $3400 AFTER a 35% discount, so ~$5250 retail -- the top-spec M6800 today is less than half that, again before adjusting for inflation. And it's not because build quality has taken a nosedive or because Precisions are no longer competitive in their intended segments.

 

What you think about GT60 2OD 3K IPS Edition?


15.6" WQHD+ 3K 2880x1620 LED Anti-Glare


4th Gen Intel Haswell Core i7-4700MQ
nVidia GeForce GTX 780M 4GB GDDR5 VRAM
16GB DDR3 1600MHz PC12800
128 GB mSATA SSD + 750GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive
6X Blu-Ray Read / 8X DVDRW combo drive
Killer Wireless-N 1202 + Bluetooth 4.0
Up to 3 External Monitors simultaneously
Software-changeable LED color Backlit Keyboard
Dynaudio Premium Sound System
Microsoft Windows 8 64bit
7.7 lbs (9 cell) 14.97" (L) x 10.24" (W) x 1.77" (H)
Baterry is about 4-5h

$ 2,099

 

It's comparing a gaming laptop to a workstation. Not sure it's apples and apples.