Dell Precision M3800?
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I have a Dell XPS15 with the QHD screen. It's a fabulous screen, rich, detailed, curves are displayed smoothly. My *perception* is that it's more pleasing than an Apple retina screen, based on owning a (non-retina) Macbook and seeing little difference between that and a Retina screen at normal working distance, while the screen in the Dell seems much more pleasing.
The downsides:
The fine dot pitch makes images displayed 1:1 relatively small if you need to pixel-peep (to check sharpness etc) and can make images seem a bit better than they really are.
Despite being IPS, there is some colour & brightness change when altering viewing angle just a few degrees. It's not huge, and if you were not looking for it then you'd never know.
The downsides:
The fine dot pitch makes images displayed 1:1 relatively small if you need to pixel-peep (to check sharpness etc) and can make images seem a bit better than they really are.
Despite being IPS, there is some colour & brightness change when altering viewing angle just a few degrees. It's not huge, and if you were not looking for it then you'd never know.
that's the only laptop monitor that dell has which has wide gamut. if you dont want to edit photos on it...then get any screens you fancy. if you want the M3800 for the quadro card in a laptop format then thats probably the right laptop for you.
been down this route myself, decided to just upgrade my PC instead, more control over future upgrades especially regarding hard drive technologies.
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Thanks guys.
My laptop (Dell Studio 1537) has really started to show its age.
I looked on the Dell website and couldn't find the info I needed about the screen & their sales were useless regarding the screen saying they all display all the rgb colours?!
Dell USA sell a version with 500gb SSD where the UK is either 250 SSD or 500 hybrid & its only £700!!
It looks sexy unlike the m4xxx range & the spec looks good. Having said that I've seen so many inspirion Dells to know the can scrimp on parts that slow the machine right down.
I can't find another windows machine as good for the price so this looks like the new beast?
My laptop (Dell Studio 1537) has really started to show its age.
I looked on the Dell website and couldn't find the info I needed about the screen & their sales were useless regarding the screen saying they all display all the rgb colours?!
Dell USA sell a version with 500gb SSD where the UK is either 250 SSD or 500 hybrid & its only £700!!
It looks sexy unlike the m4xxx range & the spec looks good. Having said that I've seen so many inspirion Dells to know the can scrimp on parts that slow the machine right down.
I can't find another windows machine as good for the price so this looks like the new beast?
Not sure if the M4800 have the wide gamut screen. The screen should be white LED or anything like that.
Anyway don't get too hooked up about SSD size. You can always buy cheap ones later on and stick it in. Also the M3800 has a msata slot which can allow you to expand storage. Personally I would go for 240gb SSD. Definitely not a hybrid drive as they are more expensive than HDD but a lot slower than SSD.
Dell outlet had the exact laptop I wanted for 900inc which was the M3800 i7 with 32Gb ram etc etc.
Anyway don't get too hooked up about SSD size. You can always buy cheap ones later on and stick it in. Also the M3800 has a msata slot which can allow you to expand storage. Personally I would go for 240gb SSD. Definitely not a hybrid drive as they are more expensive than HDD but a lot slower than SSD.
Dell outlet had the exact laptop I wanted for 900inc which was the M3800 i7 with 32Gb ram etc etc.
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