Add an Ethernet connection to a Gigabit network, a USB laser mouse, perhaps even a wireless keyboard, and your desktop’s goose is cooked. Hooking this portable to a 24-inch Dell LCD converted the M90 into a desktop solution easily. Output options allow you to connect to VGA as well as a digital DVI monitor, so multiple monitors are easily supported. Its high resolution handled tasks very well and was able to output to a secondary monitor with aplomb. The M90 comes equipped with a 17-inch LCD widescreen display, offering a bigger desktop to work with than most other laptops. Less stressful OpenGL modes (wireframe, basic gray shaded) produced increases of 8 to 16 percent in frames per second playback speed. With textures and lighting enabled in Maya 7.0.1, the Quadro FX2500M outpaced the preceding Quadro FXGo1400 by over 40 percent, which is very impressive. Its graphics performance drew circles around previous scores. Now we’re talking.ĭell sent me this M90 fully equipped with 2GB of DDR2 RAM (minimum for effects work), a multiformat DVD-RW drive and Nvidia’s powerful new Quadro FX2500M with 512MB of memory to drive the WUXGA LCD screen at 1920x1200. I rendered a highly motion blurred Autodesk Maya scene about 180 percent faster on the M90. The biggest change in the M90 is the dual core Intel T2600 CPU at 2.16GHz, which sees a huge speed boost over the M70’s single core Pentium M 2.13GHz. But now that I have had some time with the M90, I wonder if I need my desktop at all. As a matter of fact, some large fluid simulations for a few shots for a film I worked on had to go to my dual Xeon desktop. But I didn’t see myself getting rid of my desktop. I was less and less on my desktop system, favoring the power of the M70 for my work and play. I find it was an immense help when I was working away from home, but was invaluable at home as well. ![]() Now, mind you, I have found an incredible amount of use for the M70. So naturally, I was very curious to see Dell’s new mobile workstation, the M90, a healthy step up from the M70. The M70 is perhaps the best computer I have ever owned. ![]() It’s no secret that I am a fan of Dell’s Precision line. 7200rpm 100GB drive with SATA’s fast throughput
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