Dell Introduces Precision Laptop With 32GB RAM

Ah, but you could buy 10 desktops that are more powerful in CPU and GPU performance for that price..

What keeps it coool?

All for the low price of $3,999.99, which, surprisingly, is still lower than the price of a Macbook with an Intel core 2 duo and 4GB of RAM...

beast i want this for school

Well, the amount of RAM seems too much for practical usage. I think that the CPU (despite being an extreme edition) would be fully consumed before ever reaching the RAM limit.

3,999$? to be honest, for what it is, thats isnt a terrible price for people who need workstation computing on the go. it doesnt have nearly the value of a desktop, but atleast it isnt priced like a MAC.

Good for Dell. But I can install that much Ram if I wanted too. Sorry dell, not buying your Ram!!

Will it even last 30 mins on battery?

Opening sentance should read...Do you have some serious Porn going on with your laptop?

I just got mine... battery lasts about as long as my older laptop (Precision M6300) but that's with performance stepped back from full bore. The power brick for the thing is HUGE (200W). Performance is very good. I went with the Q820 instead of the X series and 16gig instead of 32... but I did get the dual 120GB SSD (raid0) setup and the RGBLED Display (which looks great). It's a nice machine overall, my third Precision M laptop and the only complaint I've got about the series is that they're pigs (but you don't get all that performance for free... your back takes some abuse).

Actually, if you go to the Dell Website, the I7 Extreme version with 16GB Ram and 2 250GB solid state drives will run you over $8,000....YIKES!!!!!

But wait a second here - looking at the Dell web site, it looks like they don't offer any 64-bit OS choices; it's all Win7 or WinXP 32 bit. Someone needs to explain that one to me.

Way to go dell stuff you laptop full of useless ram that won't get used anyway but only in rare occasion...

this is no mainstream computer I guess.

I hope there extra cooling or it will overheat!!!

Following in HP's footsteps are we, Dell?

i work with heavy calculus on computers that do require that insane amount of RAM and i tell you, this computer is NOT portable - most of the calculus that you do with that kind of RAM take DAYS to get done and CANNOT be interrupted....

I would rather have a normal laptop with a good remote connection to a real workstation and have my calculus done there and the results sent back to me..

the only good thing about "portable" workstations is for model and results presentation for example, to a client, and that does require some RAM yes, but not this amount. its better to get excellent graphics power, good processing power and good storage!

Seems like a waste of unused RAM. when an SSD will give a much more noticeable performance increase. Get a good videocard faster CPUa nd SSD and get 8GB of RAM. anything more is stupid.

$4k isn't that bad for a mobile cad station, personally 32gb is the sweet spot of you want to go with out a bloated page file that would hold back the system. Would be great for games as well.

Wholey Bleeping $h1t Batman! That is one hell of a work horse.

@Orionantares:

Yeah i agree but no laptop with a good professional graphics card actually uses 32gb of RAM.. for CAD!
That said, CAD software portability is excellent as you said, but the main question is: 32gb of RAM? What for..?

No serious mining business will analise such amounts of data on site. They mostly collect data on the field and then analise it with proper computing power. A laptop workstation is weaker than just one node on a decent cluster. Actually having a person travel to insert data on such supercomputer is actually cheaper and quicker than analysing data on a laptop! (if no surface satellite connection exists, which i doubt)

This is for Lidar/CAD type instances and I can tell that hyper accurate surveys require gobs of ram.... I have seen 16GB choke on several million points (this is a medium size data set). I can see many in-situ instances where this would be useful. Especially in remote sites where office space is non-existent. I am surprised it is not ruggedized though...

BTW for good desktop DDR3 32gb is very expensive.

With CAD rendering I have always used distributed computing...

$1000 for i7 Xtreme. $2999 for the 32gb ram. who wants to buy?

Pro tip: If your wondering what you would do with that RAM, its not for ya.

I think they use these high performance laptops on oil rigs, some army aircraft and whatnot.