Dell Precision Laptops

Dell Precision workstation graphics boards are focused on delivering extreme performance and value to professional markets like industrial design, CAD and engineering, as well as content creation, animation and special effects.


Dell Precision M6700, M4700 Mobile Workstations Leak

Dell Precision mobile workstation 2011

The last year's Dell Precision mobile workstation.

Besides leaked info on the Alienware M18x R2 gaming laptop, Dell Lab has posted the first known details of the Dell Precision M6700 and M4700 mobile workstations.

The Precision M6700 is a larger and more powerful laptop of the two. It has a 17.3″ full HD display in two variants: full HD with 3D capability and white LED backlight, and a 2D variant with the same resolution and RGB LED backlight. The displays will be also offered with edge-to-edge or standard surface. On the other side, the Precision M4700 has a 15.6″ full HD RGB-LED screen.

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Dell Precision M4600, M6600 Mobile Workstations Now Available in US

Dell Precision M4600Dell has made available for US customers the recently launched Precision M4600 and Precision M6600 mobile workstations, featuring the latest high-end Intel processors, professional video cards from AMD and Nvidia, and advanced display options.

The 15.6-inch M4600 and 17.3″ M6600 ship with the 2nd generation Intel Core i7 Extreme quad-core processors, AMD FirePro Mobility and Nvidia Quadro dedicated video cards with up to 2GB GDDR5 video memory, Nvidia switchable GPU technology and AMD Eyefinity multi-display feature in select configurations, and up to 32GB of 1333MHz or up to 16GB of faster 1600MHz DDR3 RAM.

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Dell Announces 2011 Business Laptop Lineup

Dell Latitude E 2011Dell has announced its 2011 business PC lineup, including new laptops, tablets and mobile workstations.

The refreshed Dell Latitude line includes the Latitude E5420 and E5520 notebooks for budget-minded customers, the business-rugged Latitude E6520, E6420, E6320, E6220, and E6420 ATG laptops, all with MIL-STD tested Tri-Metal cases and durable displays, and the Latitude XT3 convertible tablet.

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Leak: Dell Prepares Precision M4600, M6600 Mobile Workstations

Dell is working on the Precision M4600 and Precision M6600 mobile workstations, according to Eric G. software engineer.

The Dell Precision M4600 15.6-incher replaces the M4500 and features 15.6″ LED backlight display with optional touch-screen capabilty. Video card choices include professional-class AMD FirePro M5950 1GB GDDR5, NVIDIA Quadro 1000M 2GB GDDR5, and Quadro 2000M 2GB GDDR5.

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Asus, Toshiba, Sony – Most Reliable Laptop Makers

Asus Laptops Most ReliableThe most reliable laptops in the market are those from Asus, Toshiba, and Sony, followed by Apple and Dell, according to a Sqare Trade’s reasearch which is based on a 3-year malfunction rates projection.

The failure rates for Asus, Toshiba, Sony, Apple and Dell notebooks are 15.6, 15.7, 16.8, 17.4, and 18.3 percent, respectively.

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Dell Precision M4500 Mobile Workstation Announced

Dell Precision M4500Dell announced today the Precision M4500 15.6-inch mobile workstation for designers and engineers.

The Precision M4500 includes the Core i5 or Core i7 processor, the Nvidia Quadro FX 1800M or Quadro FX 880M graphics, and “optional HD+ sRGB LED screen with 100 percent user selectable color gamut support.” The notebook comes with an optional 64GB SSD MiniCard, optional 3MP camera and optional Gobi 2.0 mobile broadband support.

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Dell Precision M6500 Mobile Workstation Launched

Dell Precision M6500Dell has launched the Precision M6500 17-inch mobile workstation with the Intel Core i7 processor.

Along with the Core i7-920XM Extreme, i7-820QM, or i7-720QM quad core CPU, the successor of the M6400 features the ATI FirePro M7740 1GB, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M 1GB, or Quadro FX 3800M 1GB dedicated graphics card, four memory slots offering up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM, dual hard drives, support for RAID 0 and 1, and a DVD burner or Blu-Ray optical drive. Dell has announced that the M6500 will soon get an SSD mini-card option and support for RAID 5.

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Dell Precision M6400 Quad Core Laptop Launched

Dell Precision M6400Dell has launched this week their first quad-core mobile workstation – the Precision M6400.

The 17-inch laptop for engineers, designers, and multimedia content creators is configurable with the Intel Core 2 Quad QX9300 processor at 2.53GHz, NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M 512MB graphics, up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, dual hard drives or solid state drives, providing up to 640GB and 128GB of storage in total respectively, and a DVD burner. Options for up to 16GB of RAM, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M 1GB video card, and up to 1TB of storage will be available by the end of the year.

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Dell Precision M4400 Overview

Dell Precision M4400Dell has recently launched the Precision M4400, a newly designed 15.4-inch mobile workstation for engineers and digital media content creators.

The Dell Precision M4400 is based on Intel Centrino 2 technology and features the latest Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Extreme processor, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M 512MB dedicated video card, up to 8GB of DDR2 memory, up to 320GB of hard drive space or up to 64GB of solid state drive storage, and a built-in optical drive, which can be replaced by a secondary HDD.

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Dell Releases BIOS Updates to Prevent Nvidia GPU Issues

Dell LogoDell has released BIOS updates for select notebooks to help reduce the likelihood of recently revealed Nvidia graphics card issues.

The affected Nvidia GPUs are experiencing higher than expected failure rates causing video problems such as no video, multiple images on the screen, and random characters or lines on the display.

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Dell Unveils Precision M2300 14.1″ Mobile Workstation

Dell Precision M2300Dell has unveiled this week the Precision M2300 notebook, the company’s first 14-inch mobile workstation.

The Dell Precision M2300 is based on the Intel PM965 chipset, which is a part of the “Santa Rosa” notebook platform. It features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with clock speeds from 2GHz to 2.6GHz, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M 128MB dedicated graphics card, up to 4GB of system memory, and a hard drive up to 160GB at 7200rpm rotational speed. There is also a 32GB solid state drive option. The laptop has a modular bay, that fits an optical drive, a secondary 6-cell battery, an additional 80GB HDD, or a weight-saver. The laptop’s 14.1-inch widescreen display provides a resolution of 1440-by-900 pixels.

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Dell Precision M6300 Mobile Workstation Announced

Dell Precision M6300Dell Inc. has announced the Precision M6300 notebook, the company’s new 17-inch mobile workstation. The Precision M6300, which is a successor of the M90, is based on the Intel “Santa Rosa” mobile platform and features the Core 2 Extreme X7900 processor option, the NVIDIA’s Quadro graphics, and a variety of storage and connectivity features.

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Dell Precision M4300 Mobile Workstation Unveiled

Dell Precision M4300Dell Precision M4300, the new notebook in company’s mobile workstation lineup, has been unveiled today. The 15.4-inch M4300 features Intel “Santa Rosa” notebook PC platform and NVIDIA’s Quadro FX graphics solution.

The Precision M4300, a successor of the Precision M65 model, is offered with Core 2 Duo T7100, T7300, T7500, and T7700 processor and a discrete Quadro FX 360M 256MB video card designed for graphically-demanding applications like 3D modeling and video-editing. This graphics card manages the 15.4″ widescreen display, which is offered in three versions: WUXGA UltraSharp (200 nits) with 1920×1200 resolution, WSXGA+ UltraSharp TrueLife (200 nits) with 1680×1050, or WXGA (220 nits) with 1280×800 resolution.

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Dell to Replace for Free Laptop LCDs with Vertical Line Issue

DellDell announced today it will replace for free the faulty LCD displays with vertical line problem in some of Inspiron 6000 and 8600, Latitude D800 and D810, and Precision M60 and M70 notebook computers.

According to Dell, the displays in small number of these laptop PCs develop one pixel wide vertical line or multiple lines across the screen. The cause of the problem has been traced to one specific component used in some of LCDs shipped on the potentially affected systems.

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DesktopLinux: Dell’s Linux PCs Coming This Month

Linux Tux on Dell LaptopThe pre-installed Linux on Dell Inc’s notebook and desktop computers may be coming before the end of April, DesktopLinux’s sources say.

“We still do not know which Linux Dell Inc. will be installing on its desktops and laptops. Among the distributions we know to be under consideration are: Novell/SUSE, Red Hat, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu. It would be safe to say now, though, that Ubuntu will be at least one of the Linuxes that Dell will be offering,” DesktopLinux claims.

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