Precision vs. Latitude

Question

I've just been given the go ahead to replace my aging PC.  I've been looking at the Latitude 620, Precision M65 and Latitude 820.  My main question is, other than the graphics, what is the difference between the M65 and the 820?  Somewhere on these forums, I read that the Precision build quality was better than the Latitudes.  However, the Dell descriptions seem to indicate that the build quality is the same.  Has anyone spent time with both?  Also, does anyone have an opinion on the 620 vs. the 820?  Aside from screen size and weight, are there any other advantages of one over the other?   For a little background, I use a notebook exclusively, in the office as well as on the road.  I travel on average once a month.  I am an engineer and do a lot of number crunching and some programming.  I have done stuff that stretched my old 1.8Ghz machine with 1Gb of memory to the limits.  However, I don't do much CAD or graphics intensive stuff.  Price isn't as big a concern as speed and reliability.  Any advice would be appreciated.

Irish2005 · Answer

We purchase 620's and 820's where I work and we haven't had any issues or complaints.   The 620's seem to be for the users who do mainly day to day tasks. Number crunching / Internet / Email / Word Processing and what have you. We have users also load AutoCAD and they don't seem to have an issue on slowness or anything like that. We also have had a number of people use it for programming and it works great.   The 820's seem to be on the higher end of the D series. The users that get this seems to do more programming / AutoCAD. Tasks that your normal users might not do everyday. You can get a bigger screen / video card / higher end processor and I think more memory if you maxed it out.   The M65 is your HIGH END laptop. If your in to doing a lot of graphics and processor intence tasks this will be the car to drive. The users that get this where I work are our Solidworks users. Let me tell you Solidworks is a HOG! The users say it works great. High end Video Cards / I think you can have a max of 2-4 Gig of RAM on it. I might be wrong on the memory. Also a HIGH end processor. This one is a bit large in size compaired to the D60 and D820's.   I would say by what you wrote I would purchase the 820. Nice big screen, not to heavy, easy with traveling and it can handle a lot of processing.   You can't go wrong with any of them. I hope this helps Thanks

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