Dell intros 17-inch Precision M6300 laptop

If you've been waiting patiently on Dell's monster of a laptop, the 17-inch, Santa Rosa-based behemoth known as the Precision M6300, feel free to get really excited. Very soon, all of you business boys and girls will be able to get your hands on the company's new enterprise-centric laptop (a follow up to the M90), that rocks a Core 2 Duo X7900 CPU (2.8GHz with an 800MHz FSB), Nvidia's Quadro FX 1600M graphics chipset, up to 4GB of RAM, and a 120GB or 200GB hard drive. Dell also plans to make a SanDisk 32GB SSD available for the road-ready laptop, and is offering a DVD, DVD-RW, or Blu-ray writable optical drive. Of course, the M6300 has all the regular bells and whistles, like 802.11a/g/n, Bluetooth 2.0, DVI, Firewire, plus a not-so-usual optional AT&T HSDPA card. You can also choose between XP, Vista, or RedHat Linux for the OS. No word on price of availability, though it appears these will be landing sometime this month.

[Via DailyTech]

[Sarah @ Sep 4th 2007 11:56AM]

black inspiron

[Terrell @ Sep 4th 2007 12:03PM]

i need a smart phone =-)

[Ebzy @ Sep 4th 2007 1:18PM]

Dear God, please help this guy.

Amen. :-)

[xck81 @ Sep 4th 2007 12:05PM]

i saw it early on the dell's page... but after a while, they erase the link :(

[RavenNight @ Sep 4th 2007 12:05PM]

No number pad?

[cubmoney @ Sep 4th 2007 12:22PM]

Another disappointment!

[nicole @ Sep 4th 2007 12:22PM]

wack

[Lakritzator @ Sep 4th 2007 12:26PM]

Does it burn as nicely as the: http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/the-fun-never-ends-another-dell-up-in-flames ???

And will it play Doom? ;-)

[toiletwars @ Sep 4th 2007 12:27PM]

a "workstation" laptop with multimedia keys. YEAH!

[JeffDM @ Sep 4th 2007 12:50PM]

Normally, I'd say that a notebook shouldn't get a built-in number pad, but if it's got a Quadro chip, then I'd assume that number entry may be a significant consideration.

I don't think number pads make sense on notebooks because it puts the user or the user's hands off center for most typing.

[Rick @ Sep 4th 2007 1:27PM]

Buy a mac, this this is going to be crap

[Ken @ Sep 4th 2007 1:35PM]

The Sager NP9260 (aka Clevo d900c) still can out perform this series. Honestly, I've not seen graphics cards make as much difference on a laptop as HDD access. I would also expect a "mobile workstation" to support RAID which the aging Inspiron (which this is) does not.

[Ken @ Sep 4th 2007 1:37PM]

Apple has no mobile workstation. The MBP would be out of its league here.

[Kris Janssen @ Sep 4th 2007 2:16PM]

Why o why does it need to be so ugly. It is as if only big and ugly things can be powerful. The same goes for the new king of the hill XPS notebook that was on this site earlier...

Totally crazy...

[eric cumbee @ Sep 4th 2007 2:27PM]

It would be nice if they actually shipped laptops instead of just advertising them.

[Andrew @ Sep 4th 2007 3:01PM]

I was able to build one here:

http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/precn_m6300?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

My build won't ship until Sept 25th. YMMV.

[Zelatio @ Sep 4th 2007 8:41PM]

Another generic laptop. When is Dell going to make something cool?

[brett @ Sep 4th 2007 11:28PM]

cool dell ive always wanted a laptop i did once but it fell because it was the acer brand

[Icaro @ Sep 5th 2007 3:33AM]

It's not so bad ^^

[LoderndNarnia @ Oct 25th 2007 3:04AM]

I have it, and the only issue is that the hard drive can't keep up with the processor... Gotta wait until solid state hard drives come down in price...