News on Haswell based mobile Precision M6800 ?

I just chatted with Dell. Is it better to call them?

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Did you click the chat link from the bottom of this page? Dell Precision M6700 mobile workstation details | Dell

The business chat guys can easily reg your company right from the chat. All they need is the basic company info as this agent says in this chat session:

 

If you tell them you're from any country outside of the US they will not help you. I know this from personal experience as I used to work in Hong Kong. Not even our US based DELL acct rep could help me at that time if I was calling from HK, I had to go through the HK reps which was next to impossible as HK is under the sensitive technology ban from US export laws. Anyway, do not tell them you;re in Asia.

 

So you come up with a fake address and everything?

 

Found this on the net searching for "Dell Precision M6800 Release", nothing official from Dell.

M4800
optional 3200 X 1800 resolution; no IPS
Haswell processor
Nvidia version bumps k1100m and k2100m
AMD m5100

M6800 as above, version bumps on GPU; no IPS

Maybe some other bells & whistles, who knows, nothing official yet from Dell.

In no rush to upgrade here unless Haswell brings a massive performance increase (unlikely), could use that for compiling large projects.

Obviously take above with a grain of salt, should be in the ballpark though.

 

Not that hard to predict - Quadro Mobile Workstation Graphics Cards | NVIDIA

 

Hope to see the m6800 with K1100M as well to drop power consumption.

Does anyone know how well AMD's counterpart to Optimus (Enduro?) is working?

Are there already specs of the FirePro m6100 available? (google didn't help me).

 

Enduro seems to be working very well, going by this review.

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Very much doubt we'll see K1100M in the M6800. (Always room for surprises, though.) You can get lower power by just using Optimus. The NVIDIA GPU will be powered off altogether unless you are using it; it doesn't matter which Quadro you have, the power usage will be zero.

To get the K1100M to work, they'd have to repackage it as a MXM 3.0b card, or come up with a new heatsink to accommodate the 3.0a card in a 3.0b slot. Probably not financial incentive to do either.

If you're willing to tweak a little, you can limit the power even if you have the GPU on. I force mine to run at the lowest clock most of the time, unless I need to do something GPU-intensive. Simple shortcut on the start screen to toggle between power modes.

I also doubt that we'll see Enduro. Last time around, Dell-Mano_G mentioned engineering difficulties getting Enduro worked in with Optimus (and everything else they already have in this system). Since NVIDIA carries more weight with the high-end GPU apps market, Optimus it is.

 

Any news on new fire pro though? They always give pretty good price performance ratio.