Precision M4500 Owner's Lounge

Ok I have a question to all you M4500 owners that are photographers.

What is the color gamut like on the current offering (FHD)? I went down to the Apple store and looked at the MBP 15" with the matte high res screen (1680x1050) and was duly impressed. But to get the one I want, suited & booted, it was going to cost me almost 3 grand. I am a dyed-in-the-wool windows man ... but I will switch if necessary.

The M4500 is like a grand less with better specs. But if that display isn't that good... it doesn't meet my requirements. I am a pro photographer.

What are your thoughts?

 

i'm a pro photographer, as well. That's why I'm all worked up about the RGBLED screen, if it exists. Mine has been in "Production" for a week. I'll let you know what it is when I get it. I'm really hoping for a screen with full Adobe RGB color, but we'll see.

BTW, I shoot pets. (That sounded bad) Here's my site: Northwest Dog Shots

 

I actually laughed out loud. Nice pics, what camera do you use?

 

Mine has been in "production" for 10 days. Actually it still says "pre-production" on the order list you see right after logging in, but it says "production" if I click on the link and go in to the order.

What CPU are you getting? I wonder if that could have an affect on what LCD you get. I'm getting the i7-620M (dual core).

 

mine goes in production today

good!

now ,when it arrived to me , i show you the result of the calibration

 

I'll give you one thought about the Mac Book screen..... I too was initially very impressed with them. Then I played with one that was sitting right next to a desktop Mac..... and suddenly the screen didn't look so great anymore. There were A LOT of details missing when going back and forth on the same picture between the two. That prompted me to start googling for info on the Mac screens and I really don't know that they are anything but WLED screens. I find it aggravating that specs on laptops screens are so hard to come by. I'm down to either a Lenovo or Dell and which ever offers a wide gamut screen to me first wins. Amazing that I've been waiting 3 months now and that requirement has yet to be met.

 

Hallo Forum,

my M4500 arrived yesterday. First I installed some tools to track the temperature. Then I installed World of Warcraft and made some test.

I have the M4500 with the I7-620 CPU and 8 GByte ram and the FX1880M

I know, that this notebook is not a gaming notebook, but WoW is an nice game to test the temperature. To compare is used my M4400.

After one hour in Dalaran, i checked the temperature. The grafikcard went up to 75 degree and the cpu never hits the 60 degree. The M4400 goes up to 90 degree and 75 degree. The left side on the M4500 gets not very warm, the M4400 is very hot.

mfg
Dirk

 

Now i want to compare the M4400 screen and the M4500 screen.

M4400 : Samsung 1440x900 White LED (SEC5442)
M4500 : Philips LG 1600x900 White LED (LGD029E)

Without calibration, the M4400 screen has a very warm picture with a light yellow touch. The M4500 screen has a cold picture with a blue touch. For text writing the Philips screen is little better for my eyes. On the other hand, games looks nicer on the M4400 screen. On the M4500 the games look a litte bit to blue&red. I will see, if screen calibration will help.

The M4500 screen is vertical 1 cm smaller by the same aspect 900 pixels. I dont know why they made it smaller.






mfg
Dirk

 

What tool are you using to monitor temperature? I have no data but just from observing it the m4500 seems to have excellent cooling.

 

I use the Sidebar tools from orbmu2k

OrbLog

and for further tests i use the tool hwmonitor from the following link:

CPUID

regards,
dirk