Dell Precision M6700 Owner's Review

Stereotype on stereotype, lol
What cylinders are you talking about?! Both mobile workstations and gaming laptops come with up to the 3920xm. Gaming rigs have an edge due to unlocked BIOS (OC'ing) and better cooling. I used to run a [email protected], that was some serious performance bump over stock clocks. GPU wise, some gaming laptops can be equipped with Quadros just as some mobile workstations can be paired with gaming cards. There are M6600 owners out there using the 7970m. AFAIK, you can even flash vBIOS on some FirePro's to switch them to Radeon's and back.

Your car analogy is totally incorrect here. Gaming laptops are meant to be OC'ed and pushed. People game 8 hours a day, 365 days a year with OC'ed CPU/GPU/s. Rendering doesn't stress the components as much as heavy gaming and benching does, it doesn't last for longer periods of time. Some people never exit their online gaming sessions, and the GPU/CPU can stay in the high load mode for months. I've been there many times during clan wars. You can write a thesis on the Apple business philosophy, but by the time you're done, Apple will convert millions more to their religion, including many of those who need trucks and racing cars.

You are not getting my point, so I'll be brutally clear - the line between gaming laptops and mobile workstations only exists on paper. You can install a Server 2008 R2 on a M18x, and have 30 VM's in Hyper-V, with 32GB of RAM@1866mhz, 1TB SATA 3 SSD's in RAID 0, with 3 more hard drives for backup, [email protected], 5 hrs of battery life and 3Dmark11 GPU score of 12k! With the same approach you max out most games on a M6700 and enjoy the best screen in the world. It all depends on what you want, the sky is the limit

 

Apparently you are not getting my point so I'll make this equally clear: My information is a paraphrased from an except from the developers of the kepler product taken during one of their P & R sessions. If you disagree with their assessment (and warning), then your quarrel is with them. I don't just make stuff up. I only quote what I can prove.

 

And you're just repeating some derived informal simplification ("geforce is for the raw power, but the quadros are for prolonged load") without any critical take on that. It makes no sense as it's exactly the same GPU core (in most cases) and both cards are made to run under stress for prolonged periods of time. Will the Geforce cards start crashing in games after a few hours (and here I presume that some of the games are more demanding than most Pro apps)?

IMHO, they use ECC RAM on the Pro cards so they're perhaps somewhat more secure in that regard, but that's that (though, I'm not really sure how often can you get single-bit errors in memory if they're functioning OK). The rest should be up to the drivers.

Do you think an Nvidia representative will hint publicly that it's practically the same thing so if you can hack the drivers to be able to install them on the Geforce card (or hack the cards BIOS), you might save a noticeable amount of money? With that said, Quadro cards are tested and certified on the workstations you buy, while you'd have no guarantees that your efforts will work stable in the end, so for most people/businesses it's easier just to pay the premium for the Quadro cards than to hassle with it.

Yeah, but like that old IPS screen brightness rating that you've read somewhere, you might just be repeating the wrong information.

And where's this proof? That you paraphrased this from some informal statement on some Nvidia PR stunt? Now I'm not saying that people should start buying Geforce cards and mod them on their Precisions or anything like that (I've had enough annoyance using badly modified OEM inf files of Geforce drivers for my Quadro; fortunately, Nvidia now supports Quadros directly in their Geforce drivers), but it's just your constant use of some childish metaphores or analogies based on no real facts that you present as facts in this thread that gets to me as all I want to read is news on the new Precision. Sorry if that was offensive. I'm out of this OT discussion.

 

so i placed an order for M4700 with 3720 CPU, K2000M GPU and regular ( non IPS ) 1080P display. don't tell me i made a mistake because at this point if i did i don't want to know how long do you think it will take until it ships though ? Dell estimates that it will ship by the 17th or 18th but that is 2.5 weeks ... is it really going to take this long ?

 

I ordered mine last week on the 25th and got an estimated ship date of the 10th. My rep told me that the estimated ship date is probably inflated and it usually takes 3-5 business days to build and ship the machines. That said, I'm now at 5 business and the current status on my order is "In Production." (Still hoping it ships before the end of the week.)

 

Actually, they just start the production line of those brand new Precision, they will need some more time to check this Production line, so they need a little more time (and really more if their is a problem on it).
Just have to wait... (Ordered the 30th, delivery date on 21st).

 

Does that mean they are still making M6600 on another line? And for how long?

 

Got the official specs on the M6700 and M4700 displays. Posted the M6700.

 

We are still able to buy a new M6600, so yes, I think they still build it on an another line.

 

Or maybe it's while the stocks last..