http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/ Engadget Comments for Dell ships Precision M6500 laptop with 32GB of RAM: drill, baby, drill http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
Say "Thank You, Schlumberger."

(AFAIK, they are the big customer that pushed for this)]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
4chan loads like crazy now!]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
I was concerned that their copy of Maya lags. How many polygons are they using at once?!]]>Jul 21st 2010 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/


Well the real question is; Will it play cri........

never-mind...........]]>Jul 21st 2010 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
LOL]]>Jul 21st 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 22nd 2010 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
Shit just got real]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/I believe someone motioned the other day to remove that phrase from the blog world and it was seconded, if only i could find that post....]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUH3JQjcweM]]>Jul 21st 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/That was your reaction? Mine was "THIRTY-TWO GIGS OF RAM? HOLY SHIT!"]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/I'd say that they're safety policies on the ground had more to do with the disaster than miscalculations. The power of this rig (I'm referring to the laptop here) is of no use if the people on the ground don't follow the scientist's recommendations. ]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Well, I guess you are right. ]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/The rig wasn't American, it was made in S. Korea by Hyundai, but thats not really the reason of the disaster, it was the way they operated the thing. The had really no care for safety, actually the blowout preventer was leaking days before the accident and from reports it had not been inspected in years.]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Yup, it was the execs. wanting more oil faster, with no regard for safety, only profits.]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
NO ONE knows the cause of the disaster yet. Most of what you read on the net is random unsubstantiated speculation. Wait for the results of the investigation to be published.]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Its not random stuff from the net, and by the actions of a company, plus the history of how they've acted before, added to the leaked employee testimonies on the media all equals to a pretty good assumption of what happened. Are we going to assume that they were a good company looking out for the people in the gulf? If we are, this is going to become another Exxon disaster like the one in Alaska, where the people's land was destroyed and they are still in court battling out the compensation (and that happened before I was born) ]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
And btw, before spreading more misinformation from that Houston Chronicle journalist who was just trying to make a name for himself, the leaky hydraulics on the blowout preventer could NOT have affected it from functioning, nor would it have any impact on the backup system. It was already ruled out.

And yes, companies are all about money and the bottom line, and such a disaster is financially ruinous and all big companies understand risk mitigation. There are time deadlines that surely puts a lot of stress on rig management, but in no way would the company want to risk such huge investment. BP has suffered a $1.25 billion loss to date from this IIRC.

This is the first disaster like this, hence the total inexperience with dealing with the catastrophe, as it had simply never happened before.

As NASA knows, even the best safety culture in your organization can't prevent things like the Challenger disaster when pushing the technological envelope. ]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
In short, no we are not to ASSUME anything. Wait for the facts, its not that much to ask.

There is an extremely detailed investigation as well as $500 million awarded to independent scientific communities within the field to research this to better understand the risks to avoid and/or deal with a "next time". ]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/You bring up the challenger to prove your point, an accident that could have been avoided. The Shuttle exploded after O-rings that sealed the SRBs failed during launch because of usually low temps in the cape, the manufacturer of the seals warned NASA management against launching the spacecraft, but since the shuttle was launched before at temps below 32F, and a high ranking member of the Russian government was visiting DC, they decided to push the envelope again. Then the O-Rings failed, and the flame that escaped through the failure point burned through the external tank, igniting the highly volatile fuel, and causing the disaster 1 minute and 13 seconds after launch.

BTW, Joe Barton (R-TX), is that you??]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Its been 93 days, with all the stuff going on, i can pretty much paint a picture of what happened in the meantime, with all testimonies of workers, etc.

Scientific Community?, not if BP puts them on their payroll first. They were trying to hire scientists of the area, sometimes entire university dept. and pay them to shut up and testify on their side on the gov investigation.]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
You can paint a pretty good picture, and yet you are spreading misinformation from a very old article that has already been completely debunked... yes, clearly you should be running the investigation. *rolleyes*

I'm not a British citizen and I don't work for BP, but that doesn't mean that I like brainless kneejerk reactions, unsubstantiated assumptions, and spread of misinformation. Yes, people should be angry, I am too, but that doesn't mean that I grab my pitchfork and start yelling RARRARRAR with the brainless mob to find someone to lynch right away.]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Well, im not saying that I should be running the show, and im not the type to go out with pitch forks to link people (i dont wear tea bags in my hat). And while the investigation will take a while to complete, the new I see every day from reputable sources (not fake websites), leads me to assume the things that I said, therefore I am assuming from facts gathered from reputable journalists (not the Huston Chronicle). Added to all the madness, im sure BP will not pay all it will owe the people. But for now, on day 93, its safe to assume from the facts that BP was at fault, and that their practices played a cause on this disaster, and that other companies follow in their footsteps, by having the same lax standards. For now my words are an ASSUMPTION that I've reached from the known facts. When the investigation is finished (in a long, long time), and after it get battled in court for decades, then we will still probably be left with very little of the actual facts. ]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/As you can see from my avatar, I haven't left oil, its just that the irresponsible way that these big companies act have left me wishing that we were not so dependent on it, and hoping for a push for alternative energy. Also, they way that some like senator Joe Barton (R-TX) act towards such companies just drive me nuts.]]>Jul 21st 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Computing power always grows only as fast as the apps that need them. It was not that long ago that we thought 4 GB was a ridiculous amount of RAM, an amount that I imagine most visitors to Engadget would consider bare minimum today. By the time they could afford to put 16 GB of RAM in a thousand dollar laptop I could very well imagine there would be the application that demands it (a future version of Photoshop, Maya, or Final Cut Pro, etc.)]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Not that Steve really cares that he is beat in a market that he doesn't really compete in. ]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/32 GB modules up Steve's ass]]>Jul 21st 2010 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
32Gb, that's iPad's whole HD space.]]>Jul 21st 2010 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
Oh wait. Not an Apple store.]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
me = dunt speel good]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Jul 21st 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/You seem to belong to my tribe and I will let you marry my sister if you bring 20 camels...]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/Trust me, there is little incentive for them to do that right now. As long as iPhones/Droids are limited in resources, developers have every reason to make their code more efficient. ]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/dell-ships-precision-m6500-laptop-with-32gb-of-ram-drill-baby/
Stupid technology advances. >:|]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:56AM