M6900 - What specs are you hoping for?

Due the rumors probably they will present new model in autumn with skylake series and new amd firepros/nvidia quadro maxwells. I hope IPS screen will be back and also the old cooling system with copper, laptops are already expensive and this should be the priority.

 

Yeah, but the price?

Just get the bottom end config (well nowadays they wont let you get away with (for exaple) an Extreme CPU and POS GPU, so there's that), buy a new heat-sink and GPU - there you go.

 

Don't the M6700 and M6800 support a slice battery through the docking port? I don't see why they'd change that on the M6900. Now, a docking port on the M3900 would be awesome and I'd likely splurge for one at that point, but this isn't the thread to discuss this.

 

You're not the only one with that request. In fact, as I recall, some Precision owner have even swapped out their pro card for a geforce.

Even so, I'm not seeing a lot of incentive for Dell to offer that especially since it would be in direct competition with their gaming division. BTW, is XPS even still available?

Well there are some differences in the performance turning since Quadros favor professional applications over raw speed.

 

As far as I know that's simply because the workstation cards favor stability, and are thus clocked slightly lower than the gaming ones by default. However, the hardware is identical, and you can overclock the workstation cards to get identical performance, I believe. However, like I said, these machines are not designed as toys, and if that is somebody's priority s/he would probably better be served with a machine made for that scenario.

 

Agreed, the Quadro chips also get tested more thoroughly as far as I know. nVidia bins and clocks the chips for Quadros with stability under sustained use in mind rather than squeezing a few more frames per second. They also use ECC GDDR5 in conjunction with the GPU "core". Nowadays, I think they also deactivate the some parts of the GPUs that have to do with double precision floating point on the gaming cards. Don't quote me on that last one, I could be wrong, I'll admit I didn't take the time to thoroughly check that.

 

Better speakers.

It makes no sense that you can get speaker manufacture quality speaker (Bang & Olufsen, Alec Lansing, Harman Kardon, etc.) on a basic consumer grade laptop buy not on a workstation costing many times more. After all, its not as if people that own workstation don't care about better sound.

 

This doesn't make any sense. I could tell you about the price difference, nVidia shouldn't be releasing any products that aren't stable, and the very real performance difference, but you wouldn't listen. There is a simpler answer: IF YOU DON'T WANT A GAMING CARD IN YOUR PRECISION, THEN DON'T GET ONE.

That doesn't mean your BS reasoning should stop me from making a choice that suits me especially when I'm paying for it.

See how simple that is?

 

I agree 100 %. If they cannot provide quality speakers, they should at least integrate a quality DAC from a respected manufacturer so that I can plug in my own pair of headphones/speakers.

 

Ahh, here comes our master of reasoning again. Well, honey, let me inject a dose of reality into that naïve world of yours here.

Once again, the Precision line of products is designed, built, and marketed for a specific market segment. It is a market segment that doesn't as a rule give a rats behind for gaming. It is also a segment that has no issues with the pricing since the machines are used not for idle entertainment but to produce value. The monetary value derived from the performance of those workstation graphics cards in certain types of applications far outweighs their cost, which is why Nvidia can charge what they charge for these cards.

Finally, you are free, of course, to pay for whatever is offered for sale. There are no Precision 6x00 gaming toys available for sale, and there likely never will be. You are going to have to bend to that reality, as surprising as that may appear to you. I will point out that what is stopping you from making certain choices is in fact good old reality, not my reasoning. The good news is, Dell does offer a line of gaming PCs for your type of clientele. In the case of the M3800, there is in fact an identical gaming machine available (the XPS 15). You are perfectly free to buy one of these.

Clearly things aren't simple enough to remain within your realm of understanding.

P.S.: Popup quiz: Why do you think there is a gaming version of the M3800, but not for the M4/6800?