M4700 Owners Thread

Yeah... I believe you said you were going for the lower config, right? I almost spec'd mine out, minus a few things (ie 320GB HDD, 2GB ram, mobile broadband) because a) I would just never use it or b) I didn't feel like paying Dell a couple hundred $$$ for something that I can easily get for a fifth of the price elsewhere and install on my own.

But yeah, happy Winter Holidays to me because I'm not getting anything else.

 

You and I are in the same boat. I think Dell makes most of their profit on the add-ons. Cannot bring myself to pay 2 to 3 times the going rate for some person to install ram or a SSD. I went with the faster i5, minimal ram, 1920x1080 display. I think the most expensive add on was the sales tax . Once it gets here, it will get a SSD or two, haven't decided, and 8GB of ram.

Then comes the hard part - installing all of my development software.

I'm looking forward to seeing how much faster the SATA3 is.

 

Hi, i would receive mine today.

I7 3740, 500gb HD, quadro k2000, 4gb RAM.

I had bought a Samsung 830 256gb SSD and 4x8 1600 mhz Kingston menor y modules to upgrade it myself.


I want to pass benchmarks with the original setup and the updated one.

What benchmarks did you sugest me?

I dont have any experience with benchmarks.

 

Hi elzuma
How about your lcd, is ok?
Read here
http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...82758-m4700-owners-thread-34.html#post8949839
Please, if you can. test your lcd panel and show me results
Thank you

 

Wich benchmark i should use to test the screen?i dont find any información in the link above

 

Yes there is
Anyway it's hwinfo32 for 32 bit systems or hwinfo64 for 64 bit, download for free from http://www.hwinfo.com/ under the download menu
Thank you

 

Just unboxed!!

 

Updating before first benchmarking.... and is getting the Quadro k4000 update?? ??

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Hm... I have two delivery dates listed. Dell.com has the date listed as Dec. 3 and the Dell mobile app says Nov. 28. It's probably Dec. 3 but I just thought that it is kind of odd... :-|

 

Ended with a installation error.