Precision M4600 Owners Lounge

Oh god, I just checked at Dell site after a long time (almost a year) and what ? They finally decided to implement IPS panels in their Precision series ! Good, good, that what made me walk away from the M6500 last year (and the wide gamut issues). I'm going to keep an eye on it and see how feedback are.

 

and same guys are here... (Bokeh)
I'm hardly waitting your (great, I believe) screen testing on this beast

 

Not true, the Blu-ray optical drive that Dell offers is a read/write drive. It will read and write CD, DVD, & Blu-ray.

 

Dell China quotes me US$4184.9 for the following config:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2820QM
15.6'' FHD (1920x1080) RGB LED
Standard Palm Rest without Fingerprint Reader & Contactless Smartcard Reader
Application for Camera - Kit
16GB (4x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM
128GB Full Minicard Mobility Solid State Drive
2nd 256GB Mobility Solid State Drive
2X Blu-ray Disk Drive
3 Year Warranty, 9-cell (87Wh) Primary Battery
NVIDIA(R) Quadro(R) 2000M with 2GB GDDR3
Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n) Half Mini Card
Dell Wireless 375 Bluetooth Module
Internal Dual Pointing Backlit Keyboard (English)
5 Yr Next Business Day Onsite Service

Do you think it's a good deal when compared with your market?

 

Hi Mano,
Thanks for your help.

 

Save yourself lotsa money by buying the 16gb RAM yourself and the second SSD.

 

Well, personally I'd cut the memory out and buy it separately (at $200 or so).

Don't know why you're getting a mSATA SSD and a regular SSD; a 256GB Samsung SSD after market will be under $500; a 128GB mSata is $250.

Do you need BluRay? Because unless you do...

It's not terrible, though, because I just specced out for $3,511.20:

For which you get:

1) IPS display (100% sRGB calor gamut)
2) 5 years accidental damage support

But you don't get (i) memory, or (ii) mSATA - total cost of which (in USD) is around $500 after tax. Which takes you back to $4,000, and you're still out BluRay.

 

HI msjgriffiths,
Thanks for your quick reply.
Where's your market? Europe or US?
Do I need a BluRay drive? Not exactly now. I just antipate the need for burning a huge amount of data on a BlueRay disc. No, I don't watch any BlueRay movies.
Is the 256GB Samsug SSD better in terms of performance?
Actually my Dell rep doesn't know much about latest technology. He doesn't know about IPS. So there's no way to confirm the RGB display is IPS.
Is Accidental Damage Protection more protective than Next Business Day (NBD) onsite service?
What does it mean for "2 years Extended Battery Service for Yesars 2 and 3 of System Life"? Does it mean Dell will replace your battery should you complain?
Thanks for your help.

 

USA

Might be useful, though I'd really suggest just using an external hard drive with the 2 USB 3.0 ports. Or even eSATA. Liable to be faster.

AFAIK, Dell uses Samsung SSDs. I was just looking at like/like.

The display in your quote is almost certainly not IPS; rather, it's WLED RGB. It would say IPS, since that's a differentiating feature.

It's additional; it'll cover repair/replace if you drop it off a table, into a bathtub, toilet, etc. Just not if you intentionally damage it.

I sometimes purchase theft insurance as well, but having at least hardware (NBD ProSupport) and accidental is a good idea.

Pretty much. I think it's kind of useless (just buy another battery). Batteries only have an expected life of what, 500 charges? So figure two years. I figured that's what was in the quote your originally posted.

 

Double post.