Notebook renewal time has rolled around again, I've had the old one for 3 years now. Amazing how much can change in 3 years. I don't do notebook support so my knowledge is always out of date...
I'm tending towards a Dell Precision M4600 partly because I've had 4 Dells in a row all troublefree but mostly because the company discount is a big number that can only be properly described as "obscenely big" I'd like to get some input from folks who might have used this hardware. Screens; a choice between 1920x1080 WLED 1920x1080 RGBLED IPS The IPS screen only comes with an NVIDIA Quadro 2000M with 2GB GDDR3, The regular screen comes with these choices of video card: AMD FirePro M5950 Mobility Pro with 1GB GDDR5 dedicated memory NVIDIA Quadro 1000M with 2GB GDDR3 dedicated memory NVIDIA Quadro 2000M with 2GB GDDR3 dedicated memory The price difference is substantial. Considering that my usage is nothing more stressful than KDE eye-candy and mplayer, is the IPS screen worth the extra price? OTOH the machine has VGA, HDMI and DisplayPort as well as internal screen and I believe the ATI can drive all 4 at the same time whereas the nVidia is "pick any two". Up to 4 screens might be more useful than outright performance. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
