M6600 and M4600 are coming in Feb.

I have it on good authority that we won't even see these until after March.

 

but still we are not really sure what the resolution will be on the M6600 right?
The more i hear is that they also are going 16:9 and now apple announced all the new models, and look over all the models 16:10!!!

common dell, hp or all other makers, give me also that in your bus notebooks.

By the way: on the XPS 17 you can also get NBD just fine thats not Precision specific...

 

Certainly, but I've heard that even consumer NBD is much worse than business NBD. As well, that chips away at your price argument; business notebooks usually come with NBD standard (included in the price). Adding NBD to an XPS will raise the price.

 

Sorry, but it's confirmed. Pretty much all the panels in the current business notebooks will be 16:9 since their sources for panels are only sending them 16:9. Business support is very different than consumer support even if the numbers are the same (X years with NBD Y service).

 

Well, poop.

 

Makes sense. I am sure that the M's actually use more than two SATA ports and were likely affected by the Intel Sandy Bridge recall.

Speculation with nothing to back it up. Please ignore

 

so what source does apple have then? Thats not a small source anyway because it think they will again ship loads 17" mac book pro's...

But if the M6600 moves to 16:9 then the up price for me isn't worth it. Because then if i really have to go to 16:9 there are coming more and more other options now for the specs that i want: 17" (1920x1080 then ) screen with 2720 or 2820 I7 with 2 HDD bays

until now the M6500 major selling point for me was the 1200p screen. I am wiling to pay a few hundred euro's more for that.

What i even would like to do is just upgrade the mainboard in my current vostro 1700 system... Because the rest is just fine, screen is fine, i have my hdd bays.. pity that that will not work
I really only want to upgrade the chipset,cpu and wifi.. but don't want to trade in something else, so frustrating

 

Apple are obviously prepared to pay the screen manufacturers for a more expensive aspect to benefit their customers, the likes of Dell aren't, despite the fact a Precision easily outstrips a macbook pro price wise.

If precisions didn't have Quadro's, I personally wouldn't even entertain the idea of buying them, they're a ripoff imo, sub 17" if you don't need the specialized openGL features, the much cheaper Latitudes offer pretty much the same.
The current M4500 doesn't even offer a screen on par with a consumer level XPS15 with it's half pie R+BGled option, the M4500 has a matt coating...that aside, it's the same ol, same ol as you can get on a decent consumer model at two thirds the price.

 

In the leaks they mention the AMD FirePro M5950... I've searched and can find no information on this card.

I'm new to the whole "professional" series of laptops and video cards, so I'm asking here if anyone has an idea on which current AMD/ATI card the FirePro M5950 will be replacing?

Thanks!

 

It's probably replacing the AMD Firepro M5800, which is not currently available in the M4500 (which only has NVidia options; I got the M5800 from the HP 8540w).