14 DAY TRIAL // As we've been saying lately, notebooks are moving to an age where screens of 1920 x 1080 pixels, Full HD as it were, are considered average. It's not a quick move, but a steady one nonetheless, as Dell has just helped prove. What the company did was lift the lid on a certain mobile workstation called Precision M3800 and based on an Intel Core i7 Haswell quad-core CPU.
Said chip isn't the reason for the extra attention though. Sure, Haswell is good and all, but it's not exactly a shock anymore. Not with Intel and all its partners clamoring about it on the streets and Internet.
Instead, the unusual advantage of the newcomer lies in the quality of the liquid crystal display.
Said screen has a QHD+ resolution which, in layman terms, means that the panel is a 3200 x 1080 pixels screen.
Dell has published this information, and the notice of impending availability, on the Dell Community website, its corporate blog.
There, it has also mentioned that the laptop boasts an NVIDIA Quadro mobile graphics processing unit (GPU).
16 GB of RAM are part of the configuration as well, which is a lot, but not too much given the Core i7 processor.
As for storage, there should be 512 GB or 1 TB available. The former option is a fast solid-state drive, while the latter is an HDD (hard disk drive).
All in all, the specifications are quite high-end for a 15-inch laptop, although there are some disadvantages.
While it's impressive that the Dell Precision M3800 weighs only 4.5 pounds (2 kilos) and is 0.7 inches thick, the lack of a number pad could be troublesome, as will the price.
Sure, Dell hasn't mentioned it, and it hasn't been leaked either, but it's definitely going to be on the high side.