News on Haswell based mobile Precision M6800 ?

I asked Dell Support today and they said it does support Optimus with the QHD screen. I will say I am quite impressed with the surface temperatures on that review. Also, since the idle temps are sometimes higher than the load temps, it may be that dell is using a conservative fan profile under low load. I know that is the case with my E6410, which gets too hot to use on a lap because the fan rarely turns on under low load.

 

Well, Dell has been very conservative with the CPU on the M6700, but not so much with the GPU unfortunately, the fans trigger when I'm docked because of this (higher VRAM clocks).

 

So my question is, is the machine worth 23000 sek with core i7-4900mq, 16 GB RAM, 250 GB SSD and qhd+ resolution?

I will mostly use it for programming and run multiple virtual machines. I've heard that the precision models have the best keyboards available on laptops, and thats why I want to buy one.

I apologize for going off-topic, but I need some help here. Are there other laptops with the same or better build quality and same or better keyboard and also a little cheaper than the precision models?

Regards.

 

I'm guessing that is the top end model, so it is about $1000 more than what it would be in the US.

When I think about what you are doing especially with multiple VMs I first think that you need a laptop with 4 DIMM slots. Other than gaming computers, which probably have worse build quality, you are probably stuck with the Elitebook/Zbook, Precision, and Thinkpad W540. I would wait until the W540 comes out before you buy as it may be cheaper. They should all be about the same.

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Lenovo tends to be even more expensive in Europe if the past is anything to go with, but there's no harm in waiting.

 

Yes, thats the top end model.

The problem is that dell gives away 30% discount on selected precision models right now. Before the top end model cost 40 000 SEK, VAT is very high here in Sweden.

Lenovo laptops, they're made out of plastic or what? So I dont know about durability...

 

If I remember correctly, it's a polycarbonate and ABS blend reinforced with carbon fibers and there's a metal roll cage inside the chassis to protect the components in the even of a fall. They are still pretty sturdy. If you drop a laptop, metal bends/dents, plastic either absorbs the shock or cracks so on that front, it's more of a pick your poison kind of thing.

 

Same here... But.. I recently got the Lenovo Bluetooth wireless keyboard... and based on that thing alone, I'm tempted to get a t440p or a w540.... the Lenovo keyboards (even though people say they're not as good as they used to be) are still really good...

 

New ATI and nVidia drivers for Windows 8.1 on the dell driver site.
Now the switchable graphic card options are available for my FirePro m6100.

Only thing missing would be a touch pad driver with more control over the possible features:

- single finger scrolling on right or bottom is not available, just two finger scrolling.

- touch guard seems to be always on. So after using the keyboard I always need to move on the touchpad twice to make it active again, although I tried TouchGuard off, minimum and maximum.

I "fixed" that in the Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alps\Apoint\Tapping by changing DWORD TypingInhibit from 111 to 16 (any lower number seems better).

But it could be easier to have a GUI than doing registry spotting ;-)

 

Any test on Firepro M6100? I would like to see the difference between M6000 and M6100