M6400 New Precision Pictures (pulled from various sources)

I read it somewhere, but i cant find the link anymore. It said orange, silver and black. Dnt quote me on this tho, it very well may have been in my dreams

 

The second pic in the second post of pics... Is that a 15" next to it? Is that the new M4400?

 

just saw this the other day, these look pretty sweet.

this caught my eye because, I'm going to be applying to a grad school program in video game design, and as part of the program they provide each student with a laptop- currently, (at at least what it looked like when I took the tour,) it looked like they were providing students with the m6300. I'm applying for fall 2009- hopefully, if I get in, I'd be getting one of these to do work on =)

also, did anybody (with better eyesight than me) notice if the top of this thing had a built in webcam?

 

I readed somewhere (engadget ?) that the orange one is a "special" edition, so I suppose it will be limited for shipping and maybe a bite more expensive.
I hope ripple lid won't be default case for M6400. I cross my finger as that beast should really kick *** !
Looking at those pictures of the orange M6400, I found a lots of design differences between it and M4400/M2400 already available on Dell site. Could it be some kind of pre-version of the M6400 ? there is even no CD-ROM player on left side.

 

Its prolly on the left side.. yea, the ripple is not cool!

 

This laptop certainly brings out my inner geek!

Anyone know if the 2x 2-core CPU arrangement is true/confirmed?

If so, could there be, at any stage in the future, possibility of dropping 2x 4-core's into it?

How does this generation of chipset+cpu stand versus the Nehelm family? The release dates seem to coincide, but I gather this model uses Centrino 2 tech?

Therefore, if I splashed out on this late this year, would we not see something packing even more (hyperthreaded) cores in the near future?

Sorry for my vague knowledge of current/future processor-tech. I need to run a lot of VMs, all the time (Citrix infr modelling) everywhere I go, so there's no such thing as too much RAM and too many cores!

 

The sites that had 2 x cpu's have now corrected it to read up to a quad core.
As far as VM goes then this box sounds like a good fit. With the quad core and 16GB of memory you should be able to support a few sessions.

 

Seriously though, do you guys REEEALLY NEED QuadCores?

 

I want the highest spec's M6400!!!

REALITY CHECK: I'll get the E6400 instead.

 

In the last few years I have seen numerous demonstrations of server-based software run from laptops, and there has always been the comment "obviously it is slow running on a laptop". I suspect Dell might sell a lot of systems to these companies.

Personally, quad-core is not as high a priority for me as 8GB, but it would definitely make my applications run faster. I need my next laptop to work as a portable server, running SQL Server, Reporting Services, IIS and some custom multi-threaded calculation engines I have written. It also needs to be powerful enough to develop and run WinForms and ASP front-ends at the same time. I can easily max out all 4 cores on by main workstation.

However, having seen the prices of the quad-core chips (USD851 to 1038), I might get a dual-core initially, and upgrade when the price drops. It all depends on how much an M6400 costs.