M4700 Owners Thread

It is strange for me, why people mention fingerprint scanner.

IPS panel requires different base (because of thickness). So under Base options chose "Smartcard Reader Base for RGB LCD [add £31.00]". Do you have Base section?

 

The Apple fanboy in this thread is blind. I am looking for my next workstation and have looked into retina display. It is garbage and unusable for pro video or photo work if colors matter to you. If you want to work on it and hope your colors turn out the right way then it's better than your average laptop display. For people like me using high gamut displays there's no way to go back and use something like mac book. It is the cheapest IPS garbage you can find. It's not a good IPS display in any way shape or form. They think just because they added more pixels they can justify their prices, but this display doesn't cost $30 to manufacture. You can add 10 X more pixels, it's still 10 x more inaccurate color pixels. Besides all that 1920 x 1080 is the max anybody will be using on a 15" screen. You can't see individual pixels anyway and even that makes everything look too small for a lot of people. All Apple did was get 10 year old Chinese kids to work 16 hours a day and manufacture the cheapest possible IPS display with extra pixels for marketing purposes. And that is why Jobs is in hell as we speak.

Back to Dell. I'd really like to somehow find out what % of these panels suffers from tinting. At these prices it should be perfect, otherwise may have to stick it out with high gamut TN panels for a while longer.

And what moron came up with "retina" as a name for this display. Couldn't have picked a more ridiculous name.

As for macs being flawless maybe you just got lucky. All I ever hear from people with macs is how much they love them and how often they have to fix them or buy new ones every 2 years.

 

I LOL'ed :thumbsup: I call it the Cretina display.

 

For those who are interested in the colour accuracy of the RGB-LED backlit IPS panel in the M4700, I have written a few observations here.

 

Perhaps you have been mistaken. The vast majority of IPS panels are engineered and made in Korea. LG S-IPS making both the Dell and Apple 27" 1440p panels...in fact perhaps almost all of them are from LG... LG= Korea...not China(though the plastic bezels are assembled in China).

There are lots of "Korean" 27" 1440p monitors using grade "A" panels floating around the net that did not make the QA cut for retail packages, hence some no-name companies have been utilizing the panels in somewhat shoddy(some being better than other) bezels and pushing them out for $300-400. The panel... is essentially the same as the Apple/Dell's, as they all come from LG, however the implementation(mounting it on to a bezel, putting a backlight, soldiered circuit board) is different. Many users have been satisfied, albeit..again, some shoddy bezels... but for 1/3 the price, it's a small thing to complain about for the same LG S-IPS panel!

Look at Achieva, Catleap, and Microcenter is pushing one out too.

27 inch 2560x1440 LED Monitor Quality and Grades - AnandTech Forums

 

English translation is now up:
Review Dell Precision M4700 Mobile Workstation - Notebookcheck.net Reviews

The main review covers a
Dell Precision M4700 with

• Intel i7-3720QM (4core/8thread/6MB CPU),
• 16GB (RAM),
• Samsung 830 (256GB SSD),
• nVidia Quadro K2000M (2GB GPU),
• LG LGD0308 (IPS LED 1920x1080 FHD matte display).

Some benchmarks (but not battery) also cover
a Dell Precision M4700 with

• Intel i7-3520M CPU (2core/4thread/4MB CPU),
• (unspecified memory),
• Seagate Momentus Thin ST320LT00 (disk),
• AMD FirePro M4000 (GPU),
• (unspecified 1366x720 display)

The review still shows a limited color space.

(Both here and in the notebookcheck.com forum readers have suggested running the Dell PremierColor application for enabling the wide gamut.)
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The review criticizes the "missing graphics switching".

(Both models that the reviewer received did not include the ability to switch to the integrated GPU to save energy:

• The model with the IPS screen cannot use the integrated GPU because the high-gamut IPS screens use 10 bits-per-color and the integrated Intel i7-3xxx GPU does not support 10-bits per color.
• The model with the AMD GPU cannot use the Intel GPU because Dell has not implemented AMD Enduro. AnandTech has a recent article describing AMD's troubles and recent progress implementing and validating Enduro-capable drivers for its most recent GPUs. AnandTech - AMD’s Enduro Switchable Graphics Levels Up

However, as I understand, nVidia Optimus is implemented on models with an nVidia GPU that do not have the 10-bits-per-color IPS screen.)
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The added computational power comes at a cost: the reviewer notes that at medium load it is subjectively twice as loud (6~10dB) as last year's M4600 was.

(I wonder if how much noise is due to different fan or fan controller, and how much is due to additional heat. The M4600 review used a non-IPS screen, so it was transmitting a few less bits per pixel color, and it used Optimus, so the discrete Quadro (F)2000M GPU and its heat pipes may have cooled more between tests. I hope it is not a sign of poorer assembly or thermal interfaces to each heat pipe. I wonder if assembly was outsourced to the same manufacturer in both years.)
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Hey guys, can anyone confirm whether the m4700 9-cell battery adds to the dimensions of the notebook? Thanks!

 

No, it doesn't.

 

I have the base battery. Finally got to perform a little test. It lasts at least 3 hours playing mp4 movies at minimum brightness

 

Nvidia just release new drivers for quadros cards (the 305.93). I cant install it on my m4700 with k2000m !!!! the setup tell me there is no compatible graphic card on my computer........ i dont understand ! do i need to wait for a Dell update or there is a way to install new drivers manually ?
like you said the 296.79 is old and not very efficient....
Please help me !!!
apologize my english, im french !!!
Bye