My raft of cobbled-together IBM T-60 ThinkPads ...and even a “New” HP “Off The Shelf” Tiger Direct Laptop I purchased as a Windows Box for the Lil Woman have all drastically let me down over the recent months. Everything that can go wrong ...Has Gone Wrong with them… you name it… Keys popping off the Keyboard… Touch-Pads getting Non-Responsive ...Hard Drive Failures… Poor Screens. Low Resolution and Back Light Failures… most of this stuff has gone sideways back to back with these machines too often and so about two weeks ago...I finally said Enough is Enough Already!
So I did my Due Diligence on some Dell Precision M4700 Portable Work Stations and found just a few that were LOADED to the Gunnels with everything they offer for Top Of The Line Hardware Upgrades and decided that if I can spend $500 + on a Plastic POS like the HP laptop… I can do much better by just getting a well cared for Legacy Dell Notebook Workstation that has been built to last with Very High Performance for the same amount of money. Lo and behold ...it came in today ready to run with Windows 7 64 Bit Professional installed… so I did a side-by-side installation of Linux Mint 19 and it went in on the 1 TB Drive without a burp. Dazzling Performance Differences!!!
The difference in having such a machine is a very big jump in all the most important features… and as I was putting The Dell Box through its paces… The Lil’ Woman brought me a cup of coffee… and caught a glimpse of the Nvidia High Quality Screen at its highest resolution with ridiculous color quality on the screen playing a familiar movie. After watching, listening and feeling how perfectly tactile the Keyboard was… She said… ”Stop what you are doing right now… I want one… and if you cannot find me one JUST LIKE THIS ONE… then I am taking it away from you, Big Boy. “
So… I went right back to Amazon and found an Identical Machine for a bit more money than I paid for this computer ...and pulled the trigger once again. This PDF should tell you everything that is worth knowing about such a professional graphics style machine that Architects, Graphical Artists and CAD Designers and yes… even Gamers ...who want to do their complex work and play with reliability and blinding speed proving that these are well worth the money as Used Laptops that will outstrip most of what is out there on the Market listed as Brand New ...but for three times as much money.
http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/...ments/Dell-Precision-M4700-Spec-Sheet-tab.pdf
So if it strikes you that you can use such a thing… Then Strike While The Iron is HOT for THIS one over at Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JYE7S1Q/?tag=gmtnation-20
One LAST thing… you WILL be able to find these Dells much cheaper as Refurbs out there… but they will probably be stripped down versions with much slower processors having fewer cores and less system RAM than 32 Gigs… with screens that are NOT TOP of the Line from Dell… so do your homework before choosing one that only LOOKS like these Machines...but will be Bare Bones by comparison.
So I did my Due Diligence on some Dell Precision M4700 Portable Work Stations and found just a few that were LOADED to the Gunnels with everything they offer for Top Of The Line Hardware Upgrades and decided that if I can spend $500 + on a Plastic POS like the HP laptop… I can do much better by just getting a well cared for Legacy Dell Notebook Workstation that has been built to last with Very High Performance for the same amount of money. Lo and behold ...it came in today ready to run with Windows 7 64 Bit Professional installed… so I did a side-by-side installation of Linux Mint 19 and it went in on the 1 TB Drive without a burp. Dazzling Performance Differences!!!
The difference in having such a machine is a very big jump in all the most important features… and as I was putting The Dell Box through its paces… The Lil’ Woman brought me a cup of coffee… and caught a glimpse of the Nvidia High Quality Screen at its highest resolution with ridiculous color quality on the screen playing a familiar movie. After watching, listening and feeling how perfectly tactile the Keyboard was… She said… ”Stop what you are doing right now… I want one… and if you cannot find me one JUST LIKE THIS ONE… then I am taking it away from you, Big Boy. “
So… I went right back to Amazon and found an Identical Machine for a bit more money than I paid for this computer ...and pulled the trigger once again. This PDF should tell you everything that is worth knowing about such a professional graphics style machine that Architects, Graphical Artists and CAD Designers and yes… even Gamers ...who want to do their complex work and play with reliability and blinding speed proving that these are well worth the money as Used Laptops that will outstrip most of what is out there on the Market listed as Brand New ...but for three times as much money.
http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/...ments/Dell-Precision-M4700-Spec-Sheet-tab.pdf
So if it strikes you that you can use such a thing… Then Strike While The Iron is HOT for THIS one over at Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JYE7S1Q/?tag=gmtnation-20
One LAST thing… you WILL be able to find these Dells much cheaper as Refurbs out there… but they will probably be stripped down versions with much slower processors having fewer cores and less system RAM than 32 Gigs… with screens that are NOT TOP of the Line from Dell… so do your homework before choosing one that only LOOKS like these Machines...but will be Bare Bones by comparison.
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