Dell Precision M6700 Owner's Review

Same with me...

 

I can see what you are talking about.

Has it changed at all over the first few days?

 

no, it is still clearly visible and it is really the whole lower half of the screen. why do you ask? are you thinking about something like "burn-in" of the screen? I don't think it has something to do with that. Sadly Dell has messed up my support request yesterday so the tech will come tomorrow to have a look at it and to hopefully have another display with him so we can compare. because for me, this is really too much to be acceptable. It's really not that little.

 

Can you post the RGBW xyY coordinates when the panel is set to sRGB chromaticity? (Maybe CMY, too? ) I'm guessing/hoping in your screenshots they're set to the panel's "native" gamut, because the RGB coordinates are waaaay off from what they should be in sRGB. White looks spot on to D65 though.

 

The screen shots were taken with the screen running in "Full" color mode.

Just remember that this a screenshot of the display running at 10 bits that is being grabbed and pasted into Photoshop. Then in Photoshop I do a Save for Web to convert it down to an sRGB jpeg. There are a LOT of chances for things to get way off

Screen info for "Full" at Max brightness are:
White Luminance Y - 301.4
White xy - 0.314, 0.320
White Kelvin - 6500K
Red xy - 0.680, 0.304
Green xy - 0.196, 0.742
Blue xy - 0.150, 0.034

Across 8 measurements at 6 brightness levels,

White Delta xy Average: 0.002
Red Delta xy Average: 0.001
Green Delta xy Average: 0.001
Blue Delta xy Average: 0.001

 

Right, but Full is too wide. I'm not looking at the colors in the screenshot to determine this, but their xy coordinates. I'm not sure about their luminosity, because you haven't posted the Y or z components. Under sRGB, they should be:

Red: 0.640, 0.330
Green: 0.300, 0.600
Blue: 0.150, 0.060
White: 0.313, 0.329

 

i didn't think Dell was overpriced, otherwise i obviously wouldn't order it. all i said is that the options were stup1d.

and i do understand Dell is matching HP's stupidity in the options department because they are in about as direct competition as it gets.

however ! one reason i chose Dell over HP was because Dell's options were actually LESS stu1d than HP's. with Dell ALL models were customizable while with HP you had to pay about $700 premium just for the ability to customize it.

the other reason i chose Dell over HP was dual cooling fans and more professional looking matte chassis instead of cheap best-buy-like glitter of HP. my first choice in terms of styling and build quality was the Thinkpad but it didn't offer the power or customization i wanted.

my point is there is no reason why Dell Precision can't take away Clevo's customers. all Dell has to do is rework their configuration options to match Origin PC. by offering something like Radeon 7970M and a regular mail-in 1 year warranty the cost could be dropped significantly and even with a price premium people would still choose Dell for lighter weight and better build quality.

standard configuration should be the same as it is on Retina MBP: quad core, SSD, 8GB ram, GeForce 550M, 1 year warranty.

i personally didn't need the professional warranty. i should have been given an option to opt-out of it and slash $300 off the price.

Dell pigeon-holed itself into what it thinks is their customer and doesn't understand that the only reason it's their customer is because they did everything possible to drive all other customers away.

And don't tell me about Alienware - not everybody wants a 9 pound slab of cheap plastic decorated like a christmas tree.

 

Your reasoning is from a purely consumer point of view. Perhaps you should think a bit more from a business perspective:

Dell like any other computer manufacturer has to make a profit. As a result, what we get is the product of what the techs want to create, and what the money people allow them to create. No, Dell did not create the perfect notebook (I'd like to see ALL superspeed ports, no antiquated VGA, and ALL SATA III drives) but at the moment, they come closer as a total package, than any other computer company out there. I think they deserve some credit for that. Don't you?

 

VGA and HDMI are there for presentations. You want VGA without a dongle for projectors. You want HDMI for the flatscreen on the wall.

Also remember that for a lot of users, the software costs more than the machine. The billable hours for 20 hours of lost time might be as much as the hardware.

 

there is a blurry line between NAS and SAN...

my personal network will saturate 4x GBE connections... the other ports are reserved for IPMI and managment

I suppose if i dropped in another NIC I could setup LAG for 8 pipes (switch does no support 10G)

the array in my box will write 700MB and read close to 850MB

and its got a sizable SSD to cache to

corsair sells 256 GB SSD's
CT256M4SSD3 - 256GB, mSATA Solid State Drive , from Crucial.com

also Apple does sell 512MB MSATA in the new macbooks...

its just not "standard"

click the link

SSD for MacBook Air 2012 - OWC Mercury Pro Aura Express Sandforce Driven

only one i know of:

CT256M4SSD3 - 256GB, mSATA Solid State Drive , from Crucial.com

Dual Fans, a CLEAN look and the dock is why I want one.

I'm a working profesional on the go with a side of minor games.

I understand the business side of it, I am a little bummed out that I cant order it the way I want it: MSATA only (add my own drives) and with a "consumer" GPU (I dont do graphics)

I just need something with a dock that'll run cool and handle multiple Vm's

also I dont like paying 5x-10x market price for a ram upgrade.