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Liberating Creative Professionals, 3D Animators, Engineers and Research Scientists from Their Desks, Dell Unleashes the World’s Most Powerful 15.6-Inch Mobile Workstation

ROUND ROCK, Texas — (BUSINESS WIRE) — March 9, 2010 — For those with the passion to discover, imagine and create the future, “on-the-go” access to workstation-class computing provides the freedom to work wherever inspiration strikes. This passion to create is why Dell continues to push the boundaries of workstation performance and mobility with the announcement today of the world’s most powerful 15.6-inch mobile workstation—the Dell Precision M4500.

The Dell Precision M4500 joins Dell's family of mobile workstations, which includes the world's most powerful 17 inch mobile workstation available today, the Dell Precision M6500.

The new mobile workstation is designed to liberate creative professionals, designers, animators, engineers and research scientists from their desks. The M4500 also supports the missions of defense customers who require mobile workstation performance and security, including authentication and data encryption, when in the field.

Workstation Mobility Redefined: The Dell Precision M4500

The M4500 is the world’s first 15.6-inch mobile workstation to offer an optional SSD MiniCard for additional high-performance data storage and user selectable thermal tables that keep systems cool and extend battery life when full power isn’t needed. In addition to the M6500, the M4500 provides near instant access to e-mail, calendar, contacts, the Internet and virtual remote desktops, with a new technology called Dell Precision ON.

Other product highlights include:

Like the Dell Precision M6500, the M4500 offers compatibility and optimized performance on key applications from leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) such as Adobe, Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, PTC and Siemens PLM Software.

The Dell Precision M4500 mobile workstation will be available for order globally in the coming weeks. More details can be found at www.dell.com/precision.

Compatibility for Ease of Use and Deployment

The M4500, as a part of the Dell E-Family product line, is compatible with E-Family accessories, including port replicators, notebook stands, display and monitor stands and external storage modules. In addition, the M4500 delivers comprehensive security options including Dell™ ControlVault™ security, FIPS fingerprint reader and a contactless smart card reader.

Dell Services offers a suite of highly customizable service and support solutions throughout the PC lifecycle including Dell ProSupport™ and Dell ProManage™. Dell also offers a robust set of services for organizations looking to migrate to Windows 7. In addition, Dell offers flexible computing solutions, working with organizations to build a comprehensive solution for virtualization-infrastructure sizing, deployment and ongoing support.²

Dell Precision Tower Workstations to Adopt Intel® Xeon® 5600 Processors

As the technology demands of workstation professionals continue to evolve, customers are seeking standards-based solutions that enable greater flexibility, improved performance and the ability to help their business thrive. To this end, Dell also announced today that it plans to support the new Intel Xeon 5600 “Westmere-EP” series of processors on the three recently announced Dell Precision tower workstations. The new Intel Xeon 5600 processors are expected to be available on the Dell Precision T7500, T5500 and T3500 workstation to order in the coming weeks. More details can be found at www.dell.com/precision.

Quotes

“The Dell Precision M4500 establishes new heights for performance and mobility for a workstation,” said Greg Weir, senior manager, Dell Precision workstations. “This system provides the freedom to discover, create and imagine on your terms, wherever creativity takes you. Top that off with the assurance that you are backed by our robust ‘eco system’ of ISV certifications and our ability to deliver the application performance you need to be productive…now that’s getting it done!”

“It is truly amazing the amount of power that has been packed into the new Dell Precision M4500 mobile workstation,” said Dr. Jon Peddie president of Jon Peddie Research, the industry’s consulting and market research firm in Tiburon, CA. “With a high resolution screen, a super powerful processor and a choice of high-performance GPUs there’s not much I can think of that you can’t do with this machine.”

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¹Weights vary depending on configuration and manufacturing variability.

²Availability and terms of Dell Services vary by region. For more information, visit www.dell.com/servicedescriptions.

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