M4800 Owner's Thread

good info thanks. october release looks likely. i presume manufacturers don't take too long to ship out products with the new hardware?

 

I've just ordered a M4800, hopefully it will arrive next week.

I was wondering about what to do with the optical drive bay. Does the M4800 allow a battery in the bay or are my options just Dvd drive (which its coming with and I will never use), empty caddy, or extra hard drive (since I'm replacing the stock SSHD with my own 256gb HD that's not really needed for a while)?

 

I'd say Jan 2015 at the earliest given that Intel are really pushing the Core M tablet parts first, and also consider that mobile GPU parts usually come out a couple of months later than the headline desktop GPUs.

Also consider the HP ZBooks, they look like nice machines.

No battery in bay, but you can buy a caddy that fits in to the ODD. Extra battery comes in the form of the slice battery that uses the dock connector.

 

yes the zbooks look nice. in my price range it would be this one

HP ZBook 15 Mobile Workstation - HP Store UK

which is slightly under spec when compared against the m4800 i was looking at

Dell Precision M4800 Workstation Details | Dell UK

zbook i7-4700MQ
m4800 i7-4810MQ

would you take the slightly cheaper zbook above (F0U63ET) over the m4800?

the more expensive HP ZBook 15 Mobile Workstation - HP Store UK which is out of my price range comes with i7-4800MQ

 

I *highly* advise buying from HP/Dell without ringing up their sales team first, discounts are easy to get, and I wouldn't be surprised if HP were willing to price match against the M4800.

 

I think they will revise into skylake but not broadwell in terms of design.I had good experience with laptops and will add that even with few small issues m4800 has its still usable machine...I would not trade it for Lenovo or HP although some of theirs stuff made on the same assembly lines possibly is similar. and square chasis, yes its not think an lean but its (cool) and ventilated. I belive theyve done a good job at engineering (could do better as no limit for perfection) want a netbook with soldered ram go ahead complain more get one cry buy old Precission...

 

how do you get the discounts if you don't ring up first and negotiate?

what really appeals to me about the m4800 is, and i hope i am correct here, the cpu and gpu can be upgraded at a later date. is this correct? i don't think that is possible on the hp zbook is it?

 

I belive you should ask yourself a question if you want to upgrade the GPU, it takes skill knowelege and its not guranteed unles all things 100% which is rarely the case. id say if you take 6800 your logic applies but with m4800 there is not much to upgrade to and may not be.

 

Sorry - to clarify, what I meant was, don't buy from HP/Dell online unless you've already phoned up to negotiate with them.

Both machines will have socketed CPUs but upgrading GPUs in a laptop is a nightmare (e.g. having to mod heatsinks/flash new vBIOS etc).

 

I believe it is something in interpreting key presses at a fairly low level, if not right at the electrical level.
There should be no way this issue could affect an external keyboard connected through USB (or a similar, essentially high-level bus).