Dell Precision M4700 and M6700 - Preliminary Info

I wish they would take the opportunity to offer more exotic resolutions in the expensive 17.3" workstations, where 1920x1200 was lost but was most needed.

Something such as a 17.3" 2048x1152 IPS display for the M6700 would be excellent.

 

They are unreliable, drivers are not compatible or working correctly. Like when you enter sleep mode. Sometimes it does sleep, othertimes it goes to hibernate, some times it just give a black screen somewhere in between and you have to shut it after one hour in that state.
The shipped samasung SSD-drive is terrible slow, a HDD is faster.
They run CAD (SolidWorks and others) very slow.
Screen goes black every now and then because drivers fails.
On some TV/Projectors it constantly change setting after some minutes making you look like a fool infront of your customer.

If you let dell support to play with your machine it gets completely corrupted and you have to reformete the drive (this is more of problem with the support than the Modell, but they screw the machines since the drivers are not compatible).

Battery life is at best 2 hours, in reality 30 minutes.
The machine get very hot but doesn't really deliver performance to match the power consumption.
I had dell to buy my M4400 after that their support ruined it for me the second time.
The m4500 is slightly better but it doesn't come close to my expections, I can never trust this machine completly, so it's not joy to work with.

So in short, I would not recommend anyone to buy any of these two particular models from Dell.

But this is all of topic in this thread...

 

Sorry to hear that u have such terrible experience with those 2 machines. On the contrary, my experience with my m6400 gotten better after initial hiccup. Guess I consistently searching for forum to troubleshoot. Sometimes, we can't just depend alone on Dell driver & support because their driver is not always updated.

Also, since we are paying so much for the machine, I wouldn't mind to pay up slight premium to cover the warranty to the max so that I can have peace of mind.

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Don't know when the laptops will be launching. However, Dell just announced a new round of desktop Precisions shipping in May.

Raising the Bar with New Line of Dell Precision Workstations - Direct2Dell - Direct2Dell - Dell Community

 

All the above indicates a bricked Windows installation, not hardware or driver issues - unless you try to run Windows XP on the M4500, which is not a happy combination.

Do a fresh, clean installation of Windows7 with correct partition alignment, add in a genuine, recent NVidia driver from the NVidia website - and your problems are most likely history.

One good lesson: never trust Dell's Windows installations

 

I liked my m4400 minus the trackpoint and touchpad. The looks were meh but nothing terrible. Honestly had the hardware not become unstable for a non server environment and it had a slice I would probably still use it. I sure miss the WUXGA screen thats for sure.

 

In my opinion the M4400 (and M4500) did look better than than M4600, especially the LCD cover.

 

I agree. I rarely use an optical drive these days and it would be nice to have an SSD and some nice size storage.

 

Don't see a mSata option - hope they kept that option for the 4700

 

This would make the 17in segment attractive to me again. I miss having a laptop of that size, but when I can get the relative same performance and exact same resolution in a more portable 15in laptop why get the larger 17in?

I disagree, as I find my m4600 alot more attractive then my m4400 by ALOT.