Precision M4300 is the Lattitude D830 and vica-versa Precision M2300 is the Lattitude D630 and vice-versa
I have a D830 and I wondered what the difference with the M4300 was, since they look the same... So I did a little searching, their service manuals are also exactly the same. Furthermore the NVS140 appears to be identical to the FX360 (in the D830 the ram is also the same) the difference being a somewhat higher clock speed and probably some driver settings. This corresponds with real world test which only report a 10%-15% performance bennefit over the NVS140.
Now for all those saying, don't buy that lattitude (in general)! - You can always safely overclock it :-D - Check out the new driver Dell released at 18-10, they gave me about 15% more 3D performance
Just look under downloads on the dell support page... at least for the D830. Both for Vista an XP a new driver was released on 18-10. I could suddenly run NWM2 smoothly with medium instead of low textures at 1920x1200. Someone I know with the same config who runs Vista saw his score go from 3.1 to 3.4 and the Crysis demo running a whole lot smoother (low res though... btw it ran much better on my D830 with XP ;-) )
Hehe, true... I also got my D830 on a student discount at about 2/3rd the price of what it normally would have costed with my config. I love the premium a platform like this offer... got plenty of battery with a 2nd battery in the place of my DVD, the Dockingstation is really handy and I just love that 15,4" WUXGA screen... so much space on your desktop!
There is a difference. It's called SolidWorks certification. The Precision is a CAD laptop and the Quadro FX is a CAD graphics card. Mechanical CAD programs take advantage of hardware acceleration that is built into the FX series that aren't in the business app-centric NVS cards.
I've been waiting for a sub-5lb CAD laptop for a long time. This is as close as I've seen.
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Precision M4300 is the Lattitude D830 and vica-versa
Precision M2300 is the Lattitude D630 and vice-versa
I have a D830 and I wondered what the difference with the M4300 was, since they look the same... So I did a little searching, their service manuals are also exactly the same. Furthermore the NVS140 appears to be identical to the FX360 (in the D830 the ram is also the same) the difference being a somewhat higher clock speed and probably some driver settings. This corresponds with real world test which only report a 10%-15% performance bennefit over the NVS140.
Now for all those saying, don't buy that lattitude (in general)!
- You can always safely overclock it :-D
- Check out the new driver Dell released at 18-10, they gave me about 15% more 3D performance
Rik, what's this driver you speak of for the Latitude and where can I find it?
FWIW, I'm VERY pleased with my Latitude D630 version of this computer. With my student discount, I couldn't beat anything for the price.
Just look under downloads on the dell support page... at least for the D830. Both for Vista an XP a new driver was released on 18-10. I could suddenly run NWM2 smoothly with medium instead of low textures at 1920x1200. Someone I know with the same config who runs Vista saw his score go from 3.1 to 3.4 and the Crysis demo running a whole lot smoother (low res though... btw it ran much better on my D830 with XP ;-) )
Hehe, true... I also got my D830 on a student discount at about 2/3rd the price of what it normally would have costed with my config. I love the premium a platform like this offer... got plenty of battery with a 2nd battery in the place of my DVD, the Dockingstation is really handy and I just love that 15,4" WUXGA screen... so much space on your desktop!
There is a difference. It's called SolidWorks certification. The Precision is a CAD laptop and the Quadro FX is a CAD graphics card. Mechanical CAD programs take advantage of hardware acceleration that is built into the FX series that aren't in the business app-centric NVS cards.
I've been waiting for a sub-5lb CAD laptop for a long time. This is as close as I've seen.