Dell Precision M4700 and M6700 - Preliminary Info

Still fails to see the connection with multimedia. 16x9 is not that great for most movies either but the result is still a loss of precious 120 vertical pixels. And I don't watch manies movies on laptops, I use them to do programming or text creation. At the same time we get invaded by app models that use more and more vertical real estate (ribbon, tool bar and such). I have always seen the 16x9 move as a huge regression. I have not bought a Dell in now over 2 years, and after my interim Vaio Z, am seriously thinking of swithing to Apple MBPR to get back 1920x1200 resolution. I would buy a smilarly priced and equiped Precision in a heart beat. Although try to price a Precision 4600 with 16MB RAM and 512 SSD and it won't come cheap compared to a MBPR either.
Obviously everyone is free to have his/her own opinion.

 

Its the new TV standard and the best compromise for most cinema ratios.

You're not listening. The industry had already had these discussions and made their decision. You're beating a dead horse.

 

Is it dead, though? IS IT?

 

Apple might still offer 16:10 but they no longer offer this resolution. They dropped the 17" model with the Ivy Bridge refresh, and the 15" model only goes up to 1440x900. (You could get the retina model which has 2880x1800 --- everything is pixel-doubled, so you effectively have 1440x900 working space, though you can adjust the scaling to change this. Windows does not deal with the high-DPI display very well, everything is super tiny.)

 

At times, wish I never sold my HP 8740w. That was the last gen with IPS RGBLED 1920x1200, superb build quality, one of the best keyboards and trackpads of all times - here, look at those scores .... But no, some have to always upgrade...

 

First of all, I have no idea what that technicality might be, and second, the price difference that any such technicality could possibly make is minor.

Well, if you might tell us how to do this math, then we would have something to talk about. How many more panels, and why? More importantly, why not go to a different sheet size? What is the actual cost increment? Finally, why not produce what some customers want?

 

You can easily gets a virtual 1920x1200 on a MPBR by selecting the highest content mode. Pixel-doubling is just one of their scaling option. Windows does fine with 120% scaling as I have used it for many years on Dell Latitude WUXGA with 15.4" screen and Vaio Z 13". It is my understanding that Windows 8 should be better on higher ratio. Anyway the debate is about 16x9 versus 16x10 and apparently Apple did not get the memo and just for that I applaud them. I'd be glad to buy again a Dell if they did offer a 16x10 WUXGA.

 

Would knowing those figures really make you feel any better?

They are; and the vast majority want/need widescreen. These are the people that make manufacturing the laptop a viable industry. Not the few niche computer nerds. No denigration intended of course. Since I count myself among them. Though a realist.

 

apple offers the regular 15" macbook pro with a 1680x1050 display as an option

 

Ah, my bad. I checked the tech specs when I wrote that post but I missed the "also configurable with..." text down below.

Windows 8 on the retina display, if anyone is curious.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6008/windows-8-on-the-retina-display-macbook-pro