M6800 with QHD+

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Andyk5

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Does anyone know if Dell is going to bring the QHD+ high resolution screen to the 17.3 laptops that they have?
 
Right now there are no known 17.3" QHD+ panels on the market (at least not known to me). My guess is no, but watch the gaming laptop market. If they get a 17.3" QHD+ panel soon, there is a small chance Dell could offer it late in the M6800 product cycle. But again, I really doubt it. I wouldn't be surprised if QHD+ never makes it onto 17.3" screens, they have a small market share.
 
Yeah, it looks like you have to sacrifice a lot if you want a high resolution screen and touch.
I have been playing around with the product configurator on the Dell website and getting the QHD+ screen brings you down from M6800 to M4800 which can not get the K5000 Nvidia card. Getting the QHD+ Touch brings you down to M3800 which takes away your extreme processor, all your ram and leaves you with a crappy K1100 video card.....
 
It's annoying there are no good 15.6" 120hz panels and no higher res 17.3" panels.
 
I'm less annoyed by the screen resolution thing because I don't take my laptop out of the office on a daily basis anymore, so my external monitor is more important these days. But I am highly annoyed with the pro GPUs over the past few generations. The Firpro M6100 is pretty good (roughly equal to K4100M in non-CUDA uses), but AMD is not killing it like they were with M7820 and M8900, both of which held up well against the top Quadro card of time at a tiny fraction of the price. Plus Nvidia and HP are striving to lower the bar on intro level pro graphics with the abysmal K610M.
 
I hope for better things from AMD's next generation at 20nm.
 
The real issue is if AMD even tries very hard on the pro side. This should have been their lineup.

M4100 - 14" platform
M6100 - 15" platform
M9100 - 17" platform <--this fictional card based on Radeon 8970M

AMD hasn't put out a Firepro card based on their strongest gaming card since M8900 (which was Sandy bridge era laptops...Dell Precision M6600 was its only application).
 
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