Dell Precision M6400 WorkStation Laptop Available for Purchase; Starting from $2,299

Dell Precision M6400 WorkStation the flagship workstation form Dell is available at Dell’s website for purchase from today. The beast 17" Precision M6400 is a powerhouse laptop that comes with unique features to operate heavy applications for engineers and professional animators and graphics designers.

The system starts from $2,299 after $300 rebate and will start shipping out from October 22^nd.

There are impressive features worthy to be highlighted:

- An optional Intel latest Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9300 (2.53GHz, 12M L2 Cache) processor and a super-fast 1067MHz FSB

- Up to 16GB of DDR3 memory capability

- Two dedicated hard drive bays the storage capacity can scale up to 1 Terabyte

- The display (UltraSharp Wide Screen WXGA+ ) is a LED back-lit with 1,920 x 1,200 pixels that is able to support 100% of the RGB color gamut (it is an optional facility)

-up to 1GB dedicated memory of NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M Graphics card

- e-SATA port, 4USB, firewire, display port, docking, 8-in-1 card reader and having both ExpressCard 54; and PC Card

- Bluetooth 2.1, Ultra-wideband (UWB-US Only), WWAN, GPS, 802.11a/g/n WiFi,

- rich security using various tools such as Smart Card Reader and Contactless Smart Card Reader, Fingerprint Reader (optional), FIPS Fingerprint Reader (optional), TPM 1.2 (where available)

- 2 speakers, optional dual array microphones

- Optional 2MP camera

Unfortunately the system doesn’t have any option support for Blu-ray optical drive.

Precision M6400 is comparable with the rivals from other manufacturers such as upcoming HP 17-inch EliteBook 8730wm, and 17-in Lenovo ThinkPad W700.

-HP EliteBook 8730wm starts from $ 1,699.00. It is the only mobile workstation on the market to offer a 17-inch diagonal HP DreamColor Display, which offers over 16 million colors, a significant improvement to the 260,000 available colors on traditional notebook PCs.

The notebook also offers up to Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor X9100 (3.06 GHz, 6 MB L2 cache, 1066 MHz FSB) which is lower than the latest CPU offering in M6400, 8 GB of memory, up to 320 GB 7200 rpm SATA II HDD, Blu-ray optical drive, and up to NVIDIA3700M with card with up to 1 GB dedicated video memory, 6-in-1 media card reader, and HDMI port.

-ThinkPad W700 starts from $ $2,978. ThinkPad W700 will sport up to Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX9300 (2.53GHz 1066MHz 12MBL2), up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, up dual hard drive bays configurable as RAID 0 or 1 (200 GB 7(200rpm) with Disk Encryption) with optional SSD and Blu-ray burner for option. This laptop will also incorporate advanced NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 graphics card with a 1GB of on-board memory.

ThinkPad W700 seems more similar to Precision M6400.