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On Wednesday 20 July 2011 10:39:00 kashani did opine thusly: |
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> On 7/19/2011 1:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > The price difference is substantial. Considering that my usage |
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> > is |
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> > nothing more stressful than KDE eye-candy and mplayer, is the |
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> > 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 |
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> > drive all 4 at the same time whereas the nVidia is "pick any |
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> > two". Up to 4 screens might be more useful than outright |
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> > performance. |
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> I have the slightly older Dell E6410 with the NVS 3100M. It |
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won't |
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> drive move than two displays though it does do two 1920x1200's |
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> quite nicely. |
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Google confirms :-) Apparently the nVidia GPU has two DACs so although |
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it may have more than 2 output sockets, it's "pick any two display |
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ports" |
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> I've found the display port less useful than I'd |
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> hoped mostly because I haven't bought a display port to HDMI cable. |
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> I don't think I've come across a display with a display port yet. |
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> Oddly VGA is the only common interface on all my display devices. |
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Agreed. Macs have infested our techie areas, the things seem to breed |
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under the desks overnight. Macs use DisplayPort and our techies can |
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have their pick of just about any display device they feel like having |
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(within reason). No-one has a native DisplayPort device, everyone has |
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converter dongles (usual to VGA!) |
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> As far as power I get 2.5 hours before needing to plug in. I'd |
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> expect to see about the same on the M4600. |
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This XPS M1530 gave me 2.5 hours when new with extended battery. A |
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colleague with a one-year old Precision gets 4 on a standard battery! |
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> You might head over to your local big box electronic store. |
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Dell |
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> seems to be well represented at most and hopefully they'd have a |
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> model with the IPS. I skipped the upgrade at the time and haven't |
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> felt the lack though if you like to work outside and it's bright |
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> enough it might be worth it. |
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Ummm, I'm an Internets sysadmin. I long ago forgot what that exploding |
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ball of hydrogen in the sky looks like in real life :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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