By Desire Athow
Hardware vendors have annual refresh cycles, both for consumer and professional products. While that’s a fairly easy exercise for the former, trying to innovate too much with a niche professional audience can backfire – and sometimes badly.
Dell somehow took the risk and completely revisited its 17-inch workstation, although we feel the company didn’t push the envelope as far as it could, maybe because it wanted to trickle improvements rather than deliver everything in one go.
The Dell Precision range could learn a trick or two from the XPS series but the shoe-in replacement of the M6800 sticks to what it does best, delivering the ultimate performance, using the best components, in a portable form factor with little regard for budget.
Since this is a 17.3-inch model, it is a sizeable laptop weighing just over 4.5kg with its 240 Watt brick-like power supply unit, and the device barely fits on an A3 (yes, A3) sheet. It’s almost as thick as a ream of paper as well with a 35mm thickness.
Open it and a 17.3-inch anti-glare backlit LED – linked to the base unit via two massive hinges – welcomes you. You can opt for a full HD …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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