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More simply, it's just the fact that many pieces of software (and desktop environments) don't handle resolution independence as effectively as they could. That said, I don't think I'd consider this a failing of the M3800's screen. Trying to get your mouse cursor positioned right on the window border is enough to drive a man to the brink of insanity. If I put my face right up against the screen I could see how clear and crisp these elements were displayed, but with your face at a reasonable distance from the screen, the user interface items were downright miniscule.Īnd don't even ask me about how maddening it can be to resize a window on an older desktop environment like MATE on this screen. Simply clicking on the items in the status bar was a non-trivial challenge – even the text on the buttons were difficult to read. MATE (the fork of GNOME 2), for example, was pretty brutal to use. I installed a number of different desktop environments in my trials with the M3800 and found that some of them were almost completely unusable due to how astoundingly small the user interface elements were rendered. How crazy is that?īut this resolution, in this size of a screen, also has a major downside: Some stuff just gets too damned small.

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You can play four 1080p videos, simultaneously, tiled in a grid. Which is amazing for all the same reasons that having an Ultra-HD/4K TV is amazing.

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It turns out having a full '4K' screen packed into only 15.6 inches makes for some serious pixel density. Let's talk a bit more about this display, because it's fairly ridiculous. I don't usually plug into an Ethernet network very often… so I suppose… it's a good thing? I'm not sure if I think this is a problem or a great feature. It ships with a USB-to-Ethernet dongle that worked well when I tested it (admittedly, that test was simply to see if it worked before reverting back to Wi-Fi… which is what I usually use anyway). One (slightly weird) quirk worth mentioning: This unit has no built-in Ethernet port. Out of the box this laptop supports Linux, in general, incredibly well.

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Not once did I need to go hunting on a forum for details on how to get my Wi-Fi (etc.) working. Every single system ran great with absolutely zero issues. But, as a Linux nerd, I needed to know how well this piece of hardware ran with the other Linux distros I'm likely to use. The M3800 ships with Ubuntu, which it works great with. It all worked great, right out of the box, with every Linux distribution I tried.

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The Nvidia card isn't the only part of this system that worked well with Open Source drivers – everything else did as well. See also: Ultimate guide to Linux desktop environments

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And you know what? The closed source Nvidia driver definitely provided a noticeable performance improvement – but the performance with the Open Source driver was, already, absolutely fantastic. There are also proprietary Nvidia drivers that the M3800 ships with (or can be obtained from ). Now, here's why that is so great: This testing was done entirely using the, Open Source, Nouveau driver. Dialing back either a handful of the graphical options or lowering the resolution to something more reasonable (such as a full 1080p) got rid of those stutters entirely. I experience the occasional stutter – and a tiny bit of lag – but overall it was damned impressive.

I set the resolution to the full '4K' resolution (which I was surprised so many games supported) and set every single graphics setting to the highest level. This is a strategy game, but it's a very 3D one (and can be rather taxing on a system). So I loaded up Steam and installed a few games that I had a high level of familiarity with, and I was consistently blown away.Įxample: I installed Civilization V (the Linux version, naturally). One of the greatest tests of any video card – in my humble opinion – is to throw a few video games at it. That's as much RAM as this, very nice, Nexus 9 Android tablet sitting next to me has… in total. But also the faster RAM, the solid state drive, and the (far more advanced) graphics card in the M3800. Part of the difference is, surely, the faster processor. In other words: The M3800 was (nearly) 6 times faster, and would save me almost an hour of rendering time.

See also: Review: Google's Nexus 9 is an awesome tablet, with some caveats I copied over that project to the Dell M3800 and used the exact same software ( Kdenlive) and settings to render the video. One of my most recent video projects took roughly 70 minutes to render (1080p) on that Sony machine. To give you an idea of the speed here – I have a Sony-built Core i5 laptop (with 8GB of RAM, and a pretty standard 5200 rpm laptop hard drive) that I have been using for video editing work. To get this out of the way right now: It's fast. Let's put aside that crazy high-resolution screen for a moment and focus on the rest of the hardware.