Member Reviews: Dell Precision M6400

Intro I bought this as a upgrade to my M6300, so my comparisons will be between these two laptops. Finish wise, the laptop looks great, but compared to the M6300, the case is not as rugged, and seems to scratch easier. Size wise, the M6400 was a little thinner than the M6300. The improvements over the M6300. Two hard drives and Raid Performance GPU Selection LED Display option e-Sata port Display Port Processor Selection Lighted Keyboard - Awesome PC card slot and a Express Card Slot Upon arrving I upgraded the stock WXGA display with the RGB Edge to Edge LED display, and what a difference. The swap was easy with the only thing to note is that the inverter is not required for...

First Impressions: Was a little underwhelmed when first opened the box, in part because it looks like a gray laptop - nothing special. Once hefted out (yes tis a bit on the heavy side) began to realise how solid this thing is. The base is one solid chunk of alloy - built like a tank where is the E1705 has a alloy base this is this is twice as thick. Booted it up and found they had a new installation of Vista Business 64 bit - had a bit of a play then thought time to play with Windows 7 64 bit. Playing with unit. OK so Windows 7 installed fine, ran the bench test and received a score of 5.9 - lowest mark was for data transfer rate - and this is with two 120gig 7200 drives in raid 0 -...