Dell Precision M6900

Hi,

Does anyone know if there are plans for a M6900 this year?

Trying to decide whether to order 6800 now or wait.

Thanks!

 

Almost certainly not this year, given that there's no advance info about it.

 

I hope there is a M6900 this year too.

Nvidia Quadro K2200M is spotted recently. Mobile workstation usually released after new professional graphic card comes out, hopefully this time it still follows lol...

 

I don´t think there will be new workstations this year for any manufacturer - Broadwell has been largly pushed back to 2015. The Quad-Core Broadwells are expected to be on the market in mid (!) 2015.

Maybe they will just update the GPU and leave everything else as it is.

 

They're not leaving it alone, there's just nothing new to work with right now: No new 3.1 USB. No new 4k display. No new CPU. No significantly new GPU, or the next generation of Display Port. The biggest updates these days will be new displays and the graphic cards to run/manage them.



EDIT: I'd love dual eSTATs. And of course, they can always be a bit lighter and thinner. As long as it doesn't come at the cost of power or flexibility, i.e. deleting drive bays, ports etc. as in MBP.

 

Dual eSATA with SATA 6 all around incl. DVD drive. Now that would be a laptop worth noticing.

 

Did I mention its time for a user-friendly upgradable display? It high time someone came out with a caddy for that.

These are arguably the greatest items in flux right now, and the ones that will make your system go out of date the soonest. Both in pixel ratings, and design: OLED.

 

I think Dell should separate its workstations from the gadget market. Theres no way a laptop can make a great difference from consumer laptops unless they take a leap like this one: Eurocom Release
A Xeon would be a massive difference, I believe theres one 18 core coming soon, that would be 36 threads. That would make a really worthy mobile workstation.

Also a processor like this would be able to address more memory, If Dell made use of the new DDR4 Tecnology and this kind of processor supports up to 700 and something massive amount of RAM. And with some brands already producing 128MB chips, if a laptop holds up to four slots this would make a capacity of 512GB RAM.

On the graphic side I believe Nvidia is making a excellent job with their Mobile Quadro Options.

Do you believe this could happen? That would make a quantum leap in video and animation production technologies I believe.

Of course all the other shiny stuff like USB 3.1, maybe thunderbolt, and whatever is on the market those days.

Please Dell, you would save me countless hours behind little client desks with shi ty chairs.

 

just a few things I would really like to see...

- M.2 PCIe SSD expansion for fastest possible transfer rate
- Quadro that has the thermal/power benefits like their recent Maxwell gtx980m. And M4900 to be available with same higher end Quadro as the M6900.
- Capable of 64GB via the four memory slots (for when 16GB modules become available)
- higher res display than 1080p. Perhaps 4k. The top end Quadro will likely be 8-12GB and high res displays should be on the workstation models, in my opinion.
- I would love Intel to release a 6-8 core mobile i7 extreme and not be slow cores or overly hot fast cores.

weight is not much a concern, although I would go with the 4900 over the m6900 if a high end quadro were available in the m4900

 

For that, Intel would have to fix their stuff, there's something with their memory controllers that makes them unable to handle 64 GB with Haswell and older generations, dunno about Broadwell, but that one isn't up to Dell. AMD has no such problem, but we all know how the performance of their mobile offerings is utter crap compared to high end Intel quad cores.