Dell Precision M65 is a 15 inch widescreen workstation and positioned by Dell (together with Precision M90) under business notebooks category. Dell now offer Intel Core 2 Duo configurations of Precision M65. CPU choices are: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5500/T5600/T7200/T7400/T7600 (1.66GHz, 1.83GHz, 2.00GHz, 2.16GHz, 2.33GHz) Dual Core 667MHz FSB,

Dell Precision M65 Specs:

Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo processor - Up to T7600 (2.33GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB), NVIDIA Quadro® FX 350M 512MB TurboCache OpenGL workstation graphics, 15.4″ anti-glare wide screen WXGA display or WSGXA+ and WUXGA active matrix (TFT) UltraSharpTM displays, Up to 4GB of dual-channel DDR2 SDRAM memory; Up to a 120GB capacity internal hard drive

Notebookreview.com reviewed Dell Precision M65 and writes: “The 15.4″ Dell Precision M65 under review is one of two workstation-class notebooks currently available from Dell’s business-oriented website, the other being the Precision M90. The main differences between the two models are portability and graphics performance, with the M65 holding a significant advantage in the former category and the M90 being far superior in the latter, due to its top-of-the-line NVIDIA Quadro GPU options. Both machines, however, are OpenGL compliant and presented by Dell as capable of handling demanding graphics work, such as CAD, 3D modeling and video editing. As of this writing, both offer the same CPU options, ranging from the Intel Yonah Core Duo T2300E right up to the newly released, and high-priced, Intel Merom Core 2 Duo T7600.

The Dell Precision M65 offers an excellent combination of workstation performance (including OpenGL compliance), solid build and businesslike appearance, in a 15.4″ notebook package that doesn’t preclude limited portability. Two of the Dell Precision M65’s main competitors in this particular market segment are the Lenovo ThinkPad, which can be configured with the ATI FireGL V5200 GPU, and the HP Compaq nw8440, also containing the ATI V5200. While all of these machines are somewhat expensive to configure and purchase new, at least when compared to typical consumer models offering similar day-to-day performance, the Dell Precision M65 can be nicely decked out for around $2000, which is highly competitive and does not seem exorbitant given the quality of the machine and the inclusion of an on-site 3-year warranty. As for me, I found the right configuration for my needs in a refurbished model, thereby reducing my cost by a considerable margin, and when it turned out that there was damage to the case of the refurbished notebook, Dell took care of the situation beyond what I had expected or hoped for. Though I don’t need OpenGL graphics, and any number of other business-class machines would probably have been fine, everything about this particular notebook suits me and the resolution alone has made me forget about the little bit of time, effort and money involved in replacing the e1705 and getting everything else sorted out. In addition to being a replacement for the e1705, this notebook is also a fine successor to the T40, and that’s just what I was looking for.”

This entry was posted on September 5, 2006 and is filed under Dell Precision Notebooks Line.