New M4500 Discussion Thread

Pretty sure Lenovo and the ThinkPad W510 was on the market first with USB 3.

 

Until SSD drives have SATA 6.0, it's a non issue. eSATA is just as fast.

 

What does that have to do with anything? I'd rather have 4 USB 2.0 compatible USB 3.0 ports on my laptop than 1 eSATA/USB 2.0 and 3 USB 2.0 ports as it is now. What does SSD speed have to do with not including USB 3.0?

 

You might like to double check that, given your press releases to blog-dom regarding the M4500 being the most powerful 15" mobile workstation.

What about RAID 0 & 1 support?

 

Not according to HP Elitebook which have nVidia cards w/ GDDR5 and E-Star certification.

 

You will need the actual ARM processor module to get the full features of the Precision On, so its not a simple Bios update.

After using it on the Z600 I can tell you there is not much to miss, it's slow as dirt but way better than the reader software that is on the precision now.

But for 200 extra the full features are not worth the money.

 

Hi dezoris,



I was wondering about the speed at which it operated.
That’s too bad, maybe over time this will improve…





Thank You,

 

I've read that the M4500 can support an additional SSD drive, in addition to the primary hard drive and the optical drive. Can you also replace the optical drive with a hard drive? I have unusually large storage needs, and would benefit greatly if I could outfit an M4500 with a primary hard drive, a secondary SSD, and then an additional hard drive in the optical bay. Not clear to me if they allow replacing the optical bay in light of the optional supplemental SSD drive.

 

I think it'll be the same as the M4400 now. Just use a caddy for the Media bay. I do wonder how the first two are going to fit though. Using a slim SSD (1,8") in the space of an regular 2,5" HDD only leaves 0,7" What combination are they thinking of exactly?

 

My question is how are the precision models build differently than say the studio line? My biggest concern with getting an i7 processor is the constant threads I am reading about throttling and heat. Are the m4500's better built in terms of cooling and thermal pastes?

p.s. just to see pricing a configured an M4400. The one I picked had a base of 1 gig of ram?! Who know anyone would see you a computer with 1 gig of ram anymore?