The new Dell Xps 15 - What do you think?

[Amen]

http://www.notebookcheck.com/Preview-Dell-XPS-15-Late-2013-Notebook.105963.0.html

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-xps-studio-xps/735403-xps-15-haswell-owners-lounge.html

with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-latitude-vostro-precision/735359-dell-precision-m3800-owners-review.html

with the K1100M grafic card

 

I am think about the consumer edition, because of Lumion.

 

It looks like a very nice Laptop.

[RyderSK]

Hi Jan,

 

if it wasn't for german keyboard I would have ordered it last week already, it took quite some time for even the XPS to show up on Dell.de, but now I am waiting for english keyboard :- ( and UK Dell won't ship it to my country so I am stuck with local Dell, which takes ages to respond.

 

I'll probably take the XPS as well instead of m3800 because I can't for hell imagine how the m1100 quadro will perform in 3dsMax. But we have gt 650m in Retina Macbook and that is doing just fine.

I don't think either will make you happy in Lumion though... I have gaming ultrabook from MSI with gt765 for this purpose (and gaming and stuff...)

[Amen]

I found the perfect notebook.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/msi/742589-msi-gs60-ghost-ghost-pro-thread.html

 

Good size, light and very powerful with a 870m with 3gb.

[RyderSK]

Jan, I would be wary to call it "perfect". I own the bigger brother 17" Stealth MSI, and while all round, pretty much great, it has the same TN display like every single gaming laptop on the planet.

The moment you compare it to precision/xps15/retina's IPS, it lost the battle.

 

So it depend on what are your priorities. But consider looking at the display quality as one more thing apart from HW specs and body shell.

[Nic H]

ugly imo

get a mbp 15" retina

[Ernest Burden III]

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-latitude-vostro-precision/735359-dell-precision-m3800-owners-review.html

with the K1100M grafic card ...

 

That's funny, the Dell 6700 Covet that the photo compares to is the laptop I have, with a Quadro K4000M and the fabulous PremierColor IPS 17.3" panel. It is a great machine, though cost a lot.

[SkylineArch]

I have the older XPS15 model, and the 1080 screen is awesome, and I honestly don't know why you would need a higher res screen on a laptop. A guy at work as one of the insane res Lenovo laptops and it's pretty much a waste. If he sets windows to that resolution the text and icons are too small to read. I think it would just use too much graphics power to run it.

[Dimitris Tolios]

Laptops with bigger than 1080/1200p resolutions at 15" or less, are not usable without scaling the UI / Fonts.

That's why rMBP, the new Blade 14 and similar "3K" high resolution panel have their resolution driven by the "legacy" resolution, doubled:

 

The MBP 15 was traditionally 1440x900p (16:10 ratio), so they chose to go 2880x1800p for it to be easy to scale 1pixel to 4 (double in each direction) for the portions of the OS and the UI of applications that were not 3K res "aware".

 

The competition is using 16:9 panels, thus usually we see the 1600x900p resolution doubled to 3200x1800p.

The new "4K" desktop panels, are also "conveniently but not accidentally" double the resolution (4x the pixels) of the 1920x1080p format, to make scaling native 1080p footage a fast and efficient process.

 

It is not uncommon for users to use 200% Font scaling in windows to keep things "legible" in 4K 24" screens, but not all UI components in applications care about this setting, thus remain VERY hard to use for certain people.

 

Since we are going the "high-ppi" way fast, there will be a steep curve for devs to re-adapt UIs using vector graphics to make them seamlessly scalable, or simply have switchable button sizes depending on user preference between set ratios...

 

Personally, I think for normal working distances, even the 1080p is "on the high side" for a 15"...makes some CAD UIs too small for people unfamiliar with keyb shortcuts to work comfortably on, and smaller "premium" laptops - mainly some ultraportables - that had 1080p panels on 13" or so sizes, were downright irritating as you have to hunt for those buttons like struggling for that critical headshot in a FPS competition...productivity killers those are.

The road to Hell is usually paved with the best of intentions.

Edited March 24, 2014 by dtolios

[Amen]

@ Juraj

 

It will be possible to have different options for screen panels. For example Gentech is offering an upgraded screen for this that shows 95% gamut and higher brightness and has 1080p.

 

If this screen is good, I don't think I am missing anything I need in a portable mobile workstation.

[RyderSK]

@ Juraj

 

It will be possible to have different options for screen panels. For example Gentech is offering an upgraded screen for this that shows 95% gamut and higher brightness and has 1080p.

 

If this screen is good, I don't think I am missing anything I need in a portable mobile workstation.

 

http://www.gentechpc.com/config.asp?config_id=GS60-Ghost-003

 

Are you sure about this ? The changeable panel is available for premade cheapos like Clevo/Sager/etc...but I don't see that option here (nonetheless, they still just slightly better TN panel, you won't be getting a quality panel in any solution).