More than just gaming... Dell's latest $10k laptop ????

Fugly? I consider the alienware computer's lids to be ugly lol.

 

Try walking into Best Buy to buy one in person. You'll need smelling salts to offset the aura of fuglyness of some of those units in retail. Check out the orange horror known as the gateway fx whatever. Or that Qosmio, my god. We'll get some toenail polish & put some FLAMES on the lid, see, cos that means its FAST. There was some other thing with an lcd display in the keyboard to tell you it was REPUBLIC of GAM3RZ unit or something. Its like they think only zitfaced teens care about a powerful laptop.

 

Were you one of those people saying who would ever need 64mb ram anyways when windows 95 came out?

 

That notebook is not only overpriced, its ugly.

For the price of a late model used car, $10,000 bucks should give you a carbon fiber chassis, a lifetime subscription to PC world and tickets to next years E3.

Did I mention lifetime Lo Jack and a hairpiece to go with your CEO corporate salary?

 

It looks like a great machine, but a bit of an overkill. Yeah you can do a lot with it, but for the price you are better off doing those tasks on a desktop.

 

Nonsense. The 3700FX has the same GPU, and will perform exactly identical to the 9800GTX, given identical drivers.

Not true; some games do run in 64bit. Besides, you may be suprised to hear that some people do other things than gaming with their computers...

 

evilhead...i agree. Rendering will take whatever you can throw at it. I doubt most even know what SolidWorks and Pro-E are. Most are missing the point of this laptop. Atheist's comment is a good example of not getting it.

 

I think it's a bit underpowered for $10k, I mean it's got a single gpu, 2.5ghz quad core processor. For 10k it should come with two fx3700m and support faster desktop processors like the sager 9262... on the other hand it's got 16gigs of ram. Pretty cool lappy though.

 

I just priced it out from the small business section on the regular website vs. my premier site for corporate buyers.

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Mobile Precision M6400 64bit - New!
Price $4,257.40

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Preliminary Ship Date: 11/8/20081
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Review Your Mobile Precision M6400 64bit - New! Date & Time: 10/19/2008 1:01:52 AM

Mobile Precision M6400 64bit - New!
Precision M6400, Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX9300 2.53GHz, 1067MHZ, 12M L2 Cache, Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate 64 Edition Downgrade, XP 64 Installed

Unit Price: $4,257.40
SYSTEM OPTIONS
Mobile Precision M6400
Precision M6400, Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX9300 2.53GHz, 1067MHZ, 12M L2 Cache edit
Operating System
Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate 64 Edition Downgrade, XP 64 Installed edit
LCDs
17" UltraSharp™ Wide Screen WUXGA (1920x1200) LCD Display edit
Graphics
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M, 1.0GB Discrete edit
Memory
4.0GB, DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM, 2 DIMMS edit
System Documentation
Resource DVD - Contains Diagnostics and Drivers edit
RAID Configuration
All Hard Drives, Non-RAID, 1 or 2 drive total configuration edit
Primary Hard Drives
320GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM with Free Fall Sensor edit
Secondary Hard Drive
None edit
Media Bay Devices
8X DVD+/-RW Slot Load w/Roxio and Cyberlink PowerDVD™ edit
Primary Battery
9 Cell Battery edit
AC Adapter
210W 3P, A/C Adapter edit
Additional Power Options
None edit
Wireless LAN (802.11)
Dell Wireless™ 1510 802.11a/g/n Draft Mini Card edit
Bluetooth
None edit
Mobile Broadband
None edit
Modem
No Modem edit
External Monitors
None edit
Second External Monitors
None edit
Speakers
None edit
Productivity Software
Microsoft® Office 2007 Professional and Adobe Acrobat 9.0 STD edit
Security Software
None edit
Microsoft Component Removal
None edit
Client BIOS Configuration
None edit
Establish First Boot Device
None edit
Environmental Options
None edit
Fingerprint Reader Options
Internal Swipe Fingerprint Reader edit
Camera / Microphone
Integrated 2.0 MP webcam with dual digital array microphone edit
Carrying Cases
Deluxe Nylon Case (Up to 17.0) and Nylon Sleeve (17.0) edit
Misc Cables & Accessories
DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter for E-Family edit
Internal Keyboard
Internal English Backlit Keyboard edit
Hardware Support Services
5 Year Basic Limited Warranty and 5 Year NBD Onsite Service edit
Extended Battery Service
None edit
Data Protection Services
None edit
Installation Services
No Onsite System Setup edit
Accidental Damage Service
5 Year CompleteCare Accidental Damage Protection edit
Dell Recycling
None edit

Here's the price from the regular site:

Dell Precision Workstation M6400
Starting Price $5,453
Lease from $145/mo. (48 pmts)1

My System Details
PROCESSOR Precision M6400, Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX9300 2.53GHz, 1067MHZ, 12M L2 Cache edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista Ultimate Bonus-Windows XP Professional downgrade edit
PRODUCTIVITY Microsoft® Office 2007 Professional and Adobe Acrobat 9.0 STD edit
LCD 17" UltraSharp™ Wide Screen WUXGA (1920x1200) LCD Display edit
WARRANTY & SERVICE 4 Year Basic Limited Warranty and 4 Year NBD On-Site Service edit
VIDEO CARD NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M, 512MB Discrete edit
MEMORY 4.0GB, DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM, 2 DIMMS edit
RAID CONFIGURATION All Hard Drives, Non-RAID, 1 or 2 drive total configuration edit
HARD DRIVE 320GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM with Free Fall Sensor edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 8X DVD+/-RW Slot Load w/Roxio and Cyberlink PowerDVD™ edit
BATTERY OPTIONS 9 Cell Battery edit
WIRELESS CARD Dell Wireless™ 1510 802.11a/g/n Draft Mini Card edit
INTERNAL KEYBOARD Internal English Backlit Keyboard edit
FINGERPRINT READER OPTION Internal Swipe Fingerprint Reader edit
WEBCAM / MICROPHONE Integrated 2.0 MP webcam with dual digital array microphone edit
SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION Resource DVD - Contains Diagnostics and Drivers edit
MODEM No Modem edit
MONITOR Free 19" UltraSharp™ 1908FPW Widescreen edit
My Accessories
CARRYING CASE Deluxe Nylon Case (Up to 17.0) and Nylon Sleeve (17.0) edit
A/C ADAPTER 210W 3P, A/C Adapter edit
GRAPHIC ADAPTERS DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter for E-Family edit
My Software
ONLINE BUSINESS GROWTH TOOLS Free Microsoft Office Live Small Business edit
My Services & Warranties
ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE SERVICE 4 Year CompleteCare Accidental Damage Protection edit
ON-SITE SYSTEM SETUP No Onsite System Setup

*************** SOO... for the same hardware and software setup. The premier site with a 5 year warranty with complete care is $1200 less than the 4 year warranty with complete care from the normal everyday site. Man, i love my corporate account! This might yet fit into my IT budget for next year! WHOOHOO!

 

Guys, it's not a "10K Dell" and thats the end of the road. It's the 16GB of DDR3 RAM that makes it so highly priced, get a clue ...You can customize a decent one for 5-6K.

Still beyond my range, but business will like it. But any smart business would buy the Precision T7400 desktop, which is the best purchasable desktop (2 quads, max 128GB quad-channel RAM, 2xFX 5600 GPUs) in the werrrld, as far as I know.