Dell Precision M4700 and M6700 - Preliminary Info

Just tell them we can keep a secret.

 

Thanks for dropping by

The thing about being patient, you see, is that although my 1530 has been quite loyal (sans a HDD failure) over 4 years, it's on its last legs and need a replacement quite soon (and I'm not entirely convinced by the new XPS15).

 

Hey, now! Don't be hating on my XPS 15. Kidding only because I actually work on the CSMB team, so as a consumer box, XPS is my baby girl, and she's gorgeous.

XPS is no way the powerhouse the Precision is, obviously, so really don't feel like you are missing anything if the Precision power is what you're looking for. It's a whole different ballgame with TDP and thermals and whatnot.

 

"If you can wait a few weeks, you might be surprised/impressed/happy with the spec sheet on a new Precision, if we happen to have one planned for release."

I hope this means 7970 based firepro, and ips with internal 3-4G modem together (or at least some screen better then the normal "premium" one)

That would make me think hard about buying the new M6700. And my wife would get my M6600 she likes so much. And happy wife is happy life

 

Thunderbolt port or an better keyboard.

 

Great to see a Dell representative on the boards again (may have missed him/her but it seems like a while here in Precision land).

I won't be buying the M6700, as I have only had the M6600 for 9 months, but I am still looking forward to seeing the new specs and config options.

I just hope, that they have a better fingerprint reader (i.e. one that works!), and a more durable wireless smart card reader sticker/chip than the one stuck to my plam rest (at least what is left of it). Perhaps a better security system altogether.

 

Like Typematrix 2030? They could, but I even don't dare to hope.

 

Being an Apple apostate and this being my first PC purchase in over ten years, I'm a bit over being told to wait for surprises. I waited for FCPX, I waited for them to fix said FCPX, and then I waited for an update to the Mac Pro and a decent Macbook Pro... All busted. The mid range graphics card on the Retina MBP plus the crap Gamma make it unusable for me.

I'm not waiting for 2013... and if the HP 8770w (which I know all the specs for) comes out, I'm buying. I'm liking HP's business model of letting the costumers in on what is happening next. But, maybe I'm wrong as this is my first experience with them...

If you tell me there is a thunderbolt that I can throw a T-Tap on to edit and finish in the field... I'm in. But I'm pretty sure there's none there.

I guess I just don't understand or need the secrecy anymore.

 

I agree. All the competition have announced their specs and what they are doing, Lenovo have released the W530 and HP are not far away. Yet Dell have not released a date or even a specification list. The question of why is valid. When you're last out the gate logic would dictate you announce the details so customers that want your product can wait safe in the knowledge that it will be worth it. People without information are more likely to purchase something else.

Personally I got bored of waiting and jumped ship, by my count that is sales -1 and I'm only counting myself.

 

Totally understand your POV. The problem is I can't really spell out all of our POV around secrecy in specifics. I can give an example of one scenario that could happen (I've seen it before on my side of the house here in Consumer):

Competitor has a product in the market that's like 6 months old. They've already captured all the early adopter dollars who are willing to pay the launch day price. Now the platform is "in the black." So they can afford to concentrate on market share and undercutting competitor products with pricing cuts and flooding the market with coupons. If they know when our product is coming (and we're already exposed to this risk here with this product), what the specs are and can get an idea on pricing, they can target their marketing message to take sales away from our future product at low margins or even a loss per unit in order to direct sales away from our product before it launches.

That's just one scenario. There are a few more. I know this doesn't answer the questions, "Does it have Thunderbolt?" or "What are the GPU offerings," but I hope it sheds a little light on why companies (not just Dell) play it close to the vest with respect to unreleased products.