Dell Precision M6300 laptop: huge, powerful
When buying a laptop, the first question you probably ask yourself is "power or portability?" The smaller a lappie is, the less capable it's going to be when it comes to running demanding applications; the more powerful a laptop is, the less likely it is that you're going to want to lug the thing around town. While most of us try to find some sort of balance between the two, there's a certain breed of professional who simply must have the most powerful machine this side of the desktop. So this one goes out to you, Lapzilla fans: Dell's new Precision M6300 enterprise laptop. Rocking a 2.8Ghz, 64-bit Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition X7900 from Intel, a 17 inch 1920x1200 screen and an NVIDIA Quadro FX1600M OpenGL graphics card, the M6300 looks to be both large and in charge. In the options department, you can opt for a 32GB solid-state hard drive or a 7200RPM 160GB drive of the mechanical variety, a DVD, DVD-RW, or Blu-ray writable optical drive and an AT&T HSDPA card. Unfortunately, this monster also sports a proportionally large price tag (the M6300 starts at $2070) but given that Dell is calling the thing a "mobile workstation," this beast is probably well worth the scratch if you need all that power.
For more on the new laptop:
- see this press release
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By Anonymous | Posted 4:35pm | January 30, 2008
My company bought me a 6300 and I hate it -- I'm a big footballer, so the weight and size is not issue, but the thing is put together by Dell, who wouldn't know how to engineer a pasta salad. It crashes constantly (yes, the "Blue Screen of Death"), the built-in keyboard stops working intermittantly (the control key, usually), when I am attached to a projector the applications won't scroll correctly and browser windows are instantly zoomed down to microscopic (despite trying avey setting change in the monitor configuration possible, and removing the complicated drivers for the mouse and going as generic as possible). This nightmare is nowhere near as sweet as my personal HP9300, which has the same screen size, a 10-key pad, a touchpad that is proportionately dimensioned to the screen, lighter, with all of the same specs: except I have the AMD dual-core, chosen because, as an applicaiton PC, a seperate-cache architecture makes more sence that Intel's shared-cache.
I'm really disappointed to find out how much my company spent on this; my HP was half the price and infinately less frustrating to use.
By Anonymous | Posted 7:18pm | January 30, 2008
I have a Precision M6300 fully spec'd with the extreme processor which I use full-time for work and for personal use. I've had it for 3 months. It's rugged, robust, has a terrific display and works flawlessly. It sounds like you might've been unlucky and received a dud. What I did learn from my experience with Dell is to stay away from the Inspirons. Great bang-for-buck, when compared to the corporate machines (i.e. Precision & Latitudes), but I've had two in the past and they are just unreliable for full-time use.
By fus1996 | Posted 9:51pm | February 8, 2008
I received my m6300 a month ago and all I get is BSOD's. I installed Vista 64 ultimate. I agree with first poster that this this is JUNK!
By Anonymous | Posted 11:46pm | February 17, 2008
The first time that i tried to play a dvd i encountered a memory issue with it going into a loop, then failing. Had to restart. I tried a 2nd dvd and encountered the same failure. This unit is brand new out of the box from dell. : (
By Ash | Posted 2:32am | March 3, 2008
Mine's a M6300 with 4gigs of ram and 2.2Ghz dual core. I have fedora 8 on it and it works real good. No problem and performance for grid generation, cfd post processing and CAD is real good!
I am happy with it!
By Anonymous | Posted 10:22pm | April 1, 2008
Just curious, could the difference in problems in the above posters be vista vs. xp?