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notebook support so my knowledge is always out of date...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