Precision M4500 Owner's Lounge

As I thought, my estimate delivery date was changed to 20/04/10 from 12/04/10

 

Well, I'm in Europe, Netherlands to be precise ;

I paid € 3116 , which includes the 19% VAT for Dutch consumer electronics. The 5 year warranty was also pretty pricey at € 365.

 

Gah! Sorry to hear. Mine is stable at 4/30/10 but I'm sure I'm not out of the woods. We'll see what happens.

 

As long as your happy with what you get, thats all that matters.....for you.
Personally, half an upgrade isn't ok when dell are making big claims and have obviously taken the money saving option, the elitebook FX1800m is looking pretty impressive from the couple of benchmarks owners have posted in the owners lounge, so I guess we'll just have to wait for you early adopters to share your findings on the M4500.

I can't even get a price on the M4500 until the 14th and the elitebooks are on back order for up to 4 weeks......lots of hold ups on the new business models this year it seems

 

Yeah, we'll have to see how it will perform in the programs I use ; Zbrush, Maya and Cinema4D. I think the GDDR5 wouldn't make such a big difference in these programs. ( I could be wrong though )
Especially, considering the fact that each FX1800M is bound to 128 bit bus anyway. Am I going to game on this laptop ? Not really.

Also, I think Dell learned some hard lessons with the M4400 ( just look at every M4400 thread here ) ; It's very likely the M4500 will correct the issues the M4400 had.

 

That's the whole reason for using GDDR5, a more economical way than using a 256bit memory bus........more memory bandwidth, less power usage comparatively.

 

Gonna give this one a try, ordered 3/30 Estimated Date 4/20
$2719.50


1 224-8093 Mobile Precision M4500
1 317-4606 Intel Core i7-920XM Quad Core 2.00GHz 8MB for M4500
1 317-3636 8.0GB, DDR3-1333 SDRAM, 2 DIMM for Mobile Precision
1 330-8884 Internal Backlit English Keyboard for MPWS
1 320-8835 NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M Graphics with 1GB2 dedicated memory for M6500
1 342-0619 250GB 7200rpm Hard Drive for M4500 (Will replace with SSD)
1 320-8840 15.6" Full HD (1920 x 1080) Wide View Anti-Glare LED Display for M4500
1 421-1611 Genuine Windows 7 Professional64-bit, no media, Mobile Precision, English
1 330-0834 130W 3-Pin, AC Adapter for Mobile Precision
1 313-6461 8X DVD+/-RW for Mobile Precision
1 313-9329 Integrated megapixel VGA webcam with single digital microphone, M4500
1 430-3827 Intel WiFi Link 6300 802.11a/g /n Draft Mini Card, Mobile Precision M4500
1 421-3009 Precision On Flash for Precision Mobile
1 312-0248 9-Cell/90-WHr Battery for MPWS

 

/\/\ nice delivery date and a good price as well. I am still 4/30? (?)

 

Ahh! My order is showing shipped! Don't yet have tracking info!

 

Yes, mine just turned up as shipped too, less than two week lead time which is shocking.
But then again its closely related to the mainstream e6510.