Originally Posted by
bkafrick
I want to put like 1 TB of data out in the cloud, but I dont (and cant) have it sync'd to my devices, simply because I dont have the drive space on any of them to make it work.
Most of the syncable cloud services let you choose what to sync to/from a given machine (or nothing, with just web-based access.)
Originally Posted by
Landing Gear
That looks like quite a machine especially the display! I was unable to find a price. How much will one set me back?
Prices are here:
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/pr...workstation/fs
My configuration (256gb mSATA card SSD + 500gb HDD) requires phoning them if you don't have a corporate account; I'm not sure why they no longer offer build-to-order on the public web site for a lot of their systems.
Mine would have been about $2650 on the public web site (with warranty extended to 3 years and 3 years of accidental damage protection.) I didn't pay quite that much with corporate account discount (on my credit card, though; it's a personal machine), although the savings weren't huge on a machine that new (if my employer starts ordering them in numbers, I'm sure it will get better.)
If you don't use Autocad or some similar application that needs the ISV-certified video drivers (and if you don't know what ISV certified video drivers are, you don't need them) or the higher OpenGL support, the new XPS 15 Touch is essentially the same machine with the video card tuned for gaming (higher clock speed, and some of the professional features disabled), and it's very slightly cheaper.
The for someone comfortable swapping in their own SSD (or swapping an SSD for the mSATA 32gb cache card) the $1899 config is a really good, cost effective starting point.
http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-15-9530...id=xps-15-9530
Current estimated ship date on mine is the 11th.