![]() HP had great desktops and Dell had great notebooks, but the situation seems to have almost completely flipped. Three years ago, this wasn't the way things were. Did Dell come up with a worthy competitor to HP's EliteBooks, or did they just come up short? But with workstations it's not just about the internals, it's about the design and the experience. Today we have the updated Dell Precision M6700 on hand, a robust notebook featuring a full sRGB IPS panel with user-configurable gamma, a Kepler-based workstation GPU, and Intel's Ivy Bridge quad core processor. While HP's desktops aren't bad, they're overpriced compared to Dell's offerings. What we really want and need is a single vendor to order notebooks and desktops from and be able to call it a day. This presents a problem, and it's a problem we're looking at today. ![]() And you have Lenovo, who excels in neither discipline but offers a fairly balanced portfolio in exchange. You have Dell, who produce what are in my opinion the best desktop workstations but seem to be substantially less exciting on the notebook end. You have HP, who produce some excellent mobile workstations but have been stagnating horribly on the desktop side. ![]() When you think about it, the enterprise workstation market really only has three key players.
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