The laptop's 256GB SSD came with about 23GB of space dedicated to HP's recovery and tools partitions. Get to the office, drop it on the dock and you have your main monitor, mouse and keyboard already hooked, no fussing with connectors. The docking port is also pretty useful for anyone who uses a mobile workstation as his primary office laptop.
If you have a quadro and the non IPS display, you also get Optimus on the Precision for a whopping 8 to 9 hours of battery for basic stuff. I'm a bit disappointed at the lack of battery life of the 8770w though, my M6700 which doesn't have switchable graphics gets 5 hours of basic Internet, around 4 with something using GPU acceleration. On the M6700, you have HDD and Battery status LEDs both below the display and on the side of the notebook so even with the lid closed, you can tell what's going on. There is quite a bit of attention to detail on both laptops that you don't see very often. The stock warranty is 3 years phone diagnostic, next business service with tech (or without if you ask to do the repairs yourself).īoth chassis pass milspec which is a nice addition and they are indeed built like tanks, still no toughbooks as the author said, but very sturdy. Those workstations also come with excellent support and the upgrades for the support service are nothing short of amazing: 5 year next business day warranty where they send the tech to you for both the diagnosis and repair. I see the HP has some things the M6700 doesn't have and vice versa, but you get nice connectivity options on both. What you can cram in there internally is also worth mentioning: two 2.5" hard drives + 1 mSATA SSD is not something you see often as is the ability to boot from any of those, 3 stream WLAN, WWAN, 1 extra mPCI-E (Dell uses it for an encryption module, not sure if you could put something else there) and of course those 32GB of RAM. The M6700 has HDMI, VGA and Display Port, full size 6-pin IEEE 1394, easy to eject main drive tray. What I like about these workstations is the good build quality, RAM capacity since I need those 32GBs of RAM, the insane amount of ports available. It needs to be said that for buying both, calling and haggling over the phone can net you a good discount. The Dell's asking price for a fully loaded configuration is less than that of the HP, by around 1000$.
I have the direct competitor of the 8770w, the Dell Precision M6700 and while my config isn't nearly as high end as that of the HP (non IPS display, Firepro M6000 and i7-3720qm), it still is a nice machine.
0 kommentar(er)
