
A Principled Technologies test report 2
New Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation vs.
Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display
SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE SAVES TIME AND BOOSTS PRODUCTIVITY
Those who work in media applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro CC know
that productivity depends on how quickly their systems can do work. To help with the
buying decision, we compared the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation with 4K
Ultra HD touchscreen and the Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display, focusing on tasks
commonly performed in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Figure 1 presents the configuration information for the systems as tested, which
differ in some notable ways. While the Dell Precision M3800 and the MacBook Pro both
have 4th generation Intel Core i7 processors and 16GB RAM, only the Dell Precision
M3800 offers a NVIDIA Quadro K1100M professional graphics card. Another notable
difference is that while both systems include solid-state drives (SSDs), the Dell Precision
M3800 has two storage bays, each of which can be configured with 1TB SSDs. This
means that the Dell Precision M3800 can provide more SSD storage space than the
MacBook Pro, which can accommodate only one drive. Appendix A provides more
detailed configuration information for the two systems.
Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation
Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display
Intel Core i7-4712HQ (2.3GHz)
Intel Core i7-4870HQ (2.5GHz)
NVIDIA Quadro K1100M (professional)
Intel Iris™ Pro Graphics 5200
NVIDIA GeForce® GT 750M (consumer)
Display size and resolution
4K Ultra HD display: LED-backlit with
IGZO2 technology
Retina display: LED-backlit with IPS
technology
Figure 1: Configuration information for the systems we tested.
OUR FINDINGS IN DETAIL
In this section, we present detailed test results, and in Appendix B, we provide
the specifics for how we tested.
Adobe Premiere Pro CC performance
Adobe Premiere Pro CC is high-end video-editing software. We looked at tasks
commonly performed in Adobe Premiere Pro CC to see how the two systems handled
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