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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 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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I have the slightly older Dell E6410 with the NVS 3100M. It won't drive |
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move than two displays though it does do two 1920x1200's quite nicely. |
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I've found the display port less useful than I'd hoped mostly because I |
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haven't bought a display port to HDMI cable. I don't think I've come |
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across a display with a display port yet. Oddly VGA is the only common |
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interface on all my display devices. |
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As far as power I get 2.5 hours before needing to plug in. I'd expect |
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to see about the same on the M4600. |
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You might head over to your local big box electronic store. Dell seems |
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to be well represented at most and hopefully they'd have a model with |
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the IPS. I skipped the upgrade at the time and haven't felt the lack |
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though if you like to work outside and it's bright enough it might be |
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worth it. |
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kashani |
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