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Dell Precision M4500 is the latest 15-inch mobile workstation with powerful Intel processors up to Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition and the NVIDIA GeForce 1800 discrete graphics for video editing, animation and CAD manipulation. Precision M4500 is the optional 64 GB SSD MiniCard quick start, and your choice of up to 256 GB or 500 GB SSD hard drive for file storage. This is the workhorse of the most powerful on the market? See if it’s time to upgrade your office.
Construction and DesignDell Precision workstation line of laptops to mobile phones in the long-staple IT company, where customers need the fastest multi-core processors and powerful discrete graphics for 3D animation, video editing and CAD applications. If you are a Hollywood animator working on the next year or engineer in developing the next generation of satellites for communications, computing power is needed for extreme types of certificates workstation, so that we know will work with the software we use every day.Dell Precision M4500 packs all the hardware in a clamshell design with a robust industrial age. Magnesium alloy chassis is square and bulky, but very strong. The cover has a brushed aluminum look while the interior has a simple design in black. Massive hand showed little flexibility under pressure and provide a platform for comfortable typing on the keyboard size and against the light.Dell engineers must find a balance between strength and weight of hard M4500. As the thickness of the magnesium alloy chassis is loaded with tons of equipment, coverage required to show a lot of thin alloy and plastic to a reasonable level. Weighing about 7 pounds as configured with the battery, the M4500 is almost painful to gather in the palm of your hand. Unfortunately, thinner materials used for making flexible screen when pressure is applied on the back side of the screen. While we are on the screen and weight, it is interesting to note that on the screen depends not adequately support the weight of the screen, so if you gently shake the laptop screen to come and go. On the positive side, the screen has a double locking mechanism that the lid is closed during transport.
For those who need a higher level of security for mobile workstations, the M4500 is equipped with a new agreement with FIPS fingerprint reader and smart card reader without contact. FIPS (U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard), the disc for recording a full fingerprint image with several times the number of points for comparison. In addition, readers of this security can be connected to user authentication prior to seed and a number of factors SSD HDD disable hardware-based encryption to protect your data on the disk.
One of the must-have feature for business laptops is easy access to internal components. IT administrators must be able to open the book to meet the needs of specific applications or to repair. Dell Precision M4500 is designed with a solid bottom panel, which provides quick access to the RAM, hard disk and SSD MiniCard wireless network card in the laptop. You must remove the five screws to open the bottom of the laptop (it is another HP Workstation screw moving as it is), and that’s all you need to do to start playing with the internal components.
The screen and speakersDell Precision M4500 offers a variety of 15-inch screen with the capability of 1366×768, 1600×900, 1920×1080 and solutions. Our review unit is equipped with 15.6 “LED-backlit FHD (1920×1080, Matte). This High Definition 1080p display perfectly serviceable inside and out and has excellent high-contrast color. Backlit LED panels provide excellent lighting and usually leaves the brightness set between 50% and 70% when using a laptop at home. M4500 has an ambient light sensor to automatically adjust screen brightness based on the available light, but the disabled option in our test lab, so that the brightness remains constant.
Horizontal viewing angle is very good, and just started to notice changes in color of light after it has received more than 75 degrees from center. Vertical viewing angle are average, the screen begins to wash the paint from top to bottom after I started investing about 45 degrees in each direction.Inch stereo speakers are used in Precision M4500 offers a range of volumes, with temperatures much midtones with a small number of victims. Fortunately, these speakers are located on either side of the keyboard and can focus on the user. I can not tell you how much better to have the speakers in this position, but back-firing speakers are in most smaller laptops. Krug-firing speakers aim the sound down on your knees or on your desktop, and lead to a breakup. Simply fill in the office with music or sound from the video editor thanks to the M4500 speakers.Headphone jack on the M4500 works well with two different brands of earphones during the test. No static or other is seen through the outlet, as well as irregularities in the source.
The keyboard and touchpadFull-size keyboard on the M4500 has the appropriate key in the form with just the right depth every time you print, the perfect space key and the answer smoothly, without sharp click-clack you hear often when you write in a Toshiba satellite a105 battery for businesses.
One drawback to using this keyboard is an incredible amount of flexibility or “bounce” when writing. I felt a great deal of flexibility in the “F”, “C” and “V” keys “L”,Button on the M4500, even using modest pressure of writing.That said, the keyboard FLEX can vary depending on pressure and keyboard typing certain you have selected. Our review unit came with a keyboard with LED backlight, which provides an excellent backlit for typing in a darkened room or airplane cabin.
Alps Touchpad in the M4500 uses the touch screen driver Dell owners and reasonable to react with a small delay during rapid movement. Matt textured touchpad is fine, but the division between the touchpad and touchpad buttons scores three times by pressing the wrong button on the touchpad accidentally. The touchpad buttons are the right size with a hint and sweet comment box when pressed.Dell also includes a TrackPoint place / pet Touchpoint with three dedicated buttons. TrackPoint movement is not as fluid as seen in EliteBooks Lenovo and HP, but it is there, if you do not use the touch screen on a regular basis.
Ports and FeaturesM4500 has an impressive number of doors and exterior features packed into 15-inch laptop. You can get a PC card, and two expansion slots Express card, and peripherals, spent three USB 2.0 ports, a combo USB / eSATA port for connecting external hard drives, DisplayPort, HDMI and a smart card reader for more. Here is a brief overview.
Performance and BenchmarksOur Precision M4500 comes with the new Intel Core i7 620m, clocking in at 2.67ghz with. Dual core and Hyper-Threading As is common with the Acer aspire 3610 battery of these machines, the M4500 NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 Quadro with 1GB of RAM dedicated. This offers an advantage over the Precision M4500 and Compaq 8440W ThinkPad W510 previously discussed. Our test configuration came with a mini-card 64 GB SSD for the Windows operating system and a 500GB hard drive for primary storage. This device can easily exceed the expectations of all but the most demanding professionals in terms of processor and graphics performance.
Heat and noiseDuring normal precision (surfing the internet or working on a text file) M4500 remained calm and quiet. The exhaust fan is audible, but when running benchmarks or stressing the CPU and graphics. You do not have to worry about annoying your colleagues or clients of unwanted noise from your laptop in a quiet office.
We recorded the following temperatures using an infrared thermometer after running two consecutive PCMark05 benchmarks and test 02 SPECviewperf tenth Maya This should serve as an indicator of how hot the laptop was reached after about 30 minutes of serious use. Interestingly, the M4500 does a good job of keeping your body heat, but the heat emitted from the sea than usual for the area on the keyboard. This is probably a side effect of strong core Core i7 620M “relatively” thick 15-inch laptop. All temperatures are in degrees Fahrenheit.
BatteryDell Precision M4500 offers the possibility of 6-cell battery or 9-cell lithium-ion batteries. 60Wh 6-cell HP pavilion dv2000 battery, which is flush with the back of the computer. There are actually two different 9-cell battery for ’90Wh M4500 standard version and a version with less capacity of 81Wh, which has a special 3-year warranty against defects, or a dramatic loss of capacity. Reduced capacity 9-cell battery is also charged with anything slower than the version that the battery 90Wh for a long time. During the test of time, the handset in the “Balanced” mode, wireless, and screen brightness at 70%, the M4500 lasted 5 hours and 37 minutes from 9 90Wh battery. That’s pretty impressive for a 15-inch (1920 x 1080) with a mobile workstation quad-core processor and 1GB of discrete graphics.
ConclusionAfter a few weeks, Dell Precision M4500 test, it is clear that this is one of the most powerful workstations we’ve tested. If you are looking for 15-inch class machine on the desktop, then M4500 is a very good candidate, and Lenovo’s ThinkPad W510 and HP EliteBook 8540w and 8440W laptop.Despite the impressive and extensive configuration options, build quality, and Dell Precision M4500 is a bit “less impressive in the areas of the keyboard and screen cover. The rest of the mobile workstation is very strong, so that these deficiencies may be relatively minor problem.In short, if you need a portable workstation with 15-inch all the configuration options that you can imagine, the Dell Precision M4500 is probably the head of a very short list.