According to device manufacturer Dell, it has been listening to consumer feedback and has responded by incorporating new features into its flagship mobile workstation the Dell Precision M3800. The company revealed that the device now has a 4K Ultra HD touch display option, Thunderbolt 2 technology and offers an Ubuntu-based developer edition.
Boitumelo Kgonare, Client Product Marketing Manager at Dell South Africa stated that: “The Dell workstation’s power is behind the work of some of the world’s top animators, film editors and visual effects artists, so at Dell we understand the pressure these professionals experience to deliver more creative output under increasingly tighter timelines. Whether it’s editing video while on location, presenting CAD ideas to customers, or doing 3D modeling, animation and rendering on the road, the Dell Precision M3800 delivers the ideal blend of form and function to meet rising demands for performance on-the-go.”
“Dell is proving to me that they are paying attention to high-end users and offering great performance specs in workstations built for high-end users,” said Cyprian York Sadlon, motion graphics artist and founder of Notch NYC studio in New York.
According to the company, it is expanding its ecosystem by adding a Thunderbolt 2 port to the Dell Precision M3800, so users can take advantage of transfer speeds up to 20Gbps, enabling viewing and editing of raw 4K video, while backing up the same file in parallel. Intel’s revolutionary Thunderbolt 2 technology delivers the fastest, most versatile connection, simultaneously supporting high-resolution displays and high-performance data devices through a single, compact port.
As film, animation and design projects in Africa as well as globally often require managing large graphic and data-intensive files on-the-go, Dell has added additional storage options and increased the total available internal storage on the Dell Precision M3800 up to 2TB.
According to the company, the new Dell Precision M3800 has a starting weight of just 4.15lbs (1.88kg) and a form factor that is less than 0.71 inches (18mm) thick. Packed with a 4th generation Intel Core i7 quad-core processor, professional grade NVIDIA Quadro K1100M graphics, and up to 16GB of memory, the system delivers the power necessary to handle even the most demanding applications and workloads.
Darryl Linington
