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Dell Packs Xeon and Quadro GPU In 4lb Laptop (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: To look at the Dell Precision 15 5510, you wouldn't know that it sits in the middle of Dell's workstation lineup. The laptop is thinner and sleeker than you might expect a workstation-class laptop to be and the premium carbon fiber palm rest gives the system a decidedly high-end vibe. Not to mention, like the XPS 15, Dell equipped this machine with its 4K IGZO Infinity Edge display that has almost no bezel on three of its sides. However, the Precision 15 5510 is actually Dell's mid-range mobile workstation that also supports Intel Xeon E3 processors and NVIDIA's Quadro M1000 series GPUs. It's essentially a mobile workstation version of Dell's XPS 15 line but along with an NVMe PCIe Solid State Drive, delivers professional grade performance and the pro app certifications that go with it. Compared to Lenovo's ThinkPad W550 line, the Precision 15 is a more sleek, stylish machine and in testing it packs more punch as well. Lenovo may already have their Skylake Xeon refresh in the works for the ThinkPad W series, however.
it seems to be broken!
As a developer, I want my laptop to have a large, bright screen and shit-tons of battery life so I can do work on a sunny patio instead of the office when it's nice outside. And since I own a backpack, I don't care about weight or how metro I look carrying my electronics. Therefore, I own a Dell Latitude, which can run VS 2015 on a single charge for about 6-8 hours and weighs a lot more than my (used mainly for pentesting) MacBook Pro.
no Ethernet in a pro workstation? without an dongle?
And to block the TB port to use it (I hope it's TB3 but if it's just USB 3.1 then it's dumb next to using an USB 3.0 one)
It's nice to see the media acknowledge that there's something to the laptop market beyond pretty little machines meant primarily to demonstrate how much of other people's money you can squander.
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The idea behind Xeons is running dual. Fail.
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Look at that price .. $2600 for that. Only Dell fanboys would pay the Dell hardware premium for that overpriced piece of hardware.
Oh, wait
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Sorry but it's lacking a trackpoint so the next one will be another Thinkpad.
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Dell makes the m6600 m6700 and m6800, all capable of 32 gigs. Heavy as fuck tho.
Now, THAT is some Hot Hardware!
My Precision machines ran hot, but I blamed that on being about a mile up. Guess I was wrong.
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The P70 is "Starting at 7.56 lbs", so under 4lbs is something special.
With that silly excuse for a pointing device I'll wait for Lenovo to come up with a real mobile workstation with the same (or better) specs. Nobody can do real work with a silly touchpad, especially one that has no buttons.
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It looks like you can opt for a PCIe SSD instead and keep the 6-cell. Still it has the worst battery life amongst its competitors. You sacrifice a lot to fit under 4lbs.
http://hothardware.com/reviews...
The Lenovo P70 is a much more worthy competitor if you can handle the double sized weight. Plus it has the 5000M with up to 8gb memory instead of the 1000M and up to 64GB memory.
I just configured it to 32GB...
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why do you pile on the workstation crap in a widescreen formfactor and give us a retarded keyboard?
- I can play Witcher 3.
What if I told you people did more with their machines than play games?
I don't see that option.
The 32 GiB option is there. I'm looking at it right now: "32GB, DDR4-2133MHz SDRAM, 2 DIMMS, Non-ECC [add $170.00]"
Yeah, the summary is a total slashvertisement, but it actually looks like a cool machine. If you customize the build, you can choose Ubuntu as the OS and save $100 over the Windows price. It also can take up to 32 GiB of Ram, whereas many small laptops now top out at 8 or 16 GiB GiB (that are soldered to the motherboard, of course).
That said, the machine does cost an arm and a leg and has super shitty battery life.
The P50 & P70 support 64GB, come with better warranty options (no ownership transfer needed, Atlanta call center for everyone, 5YR onsite NBD) and don't have unsightly curves.
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No Ethernet. Less storage then a desktop. Lame.
Yeah, but he said his company only buys Dell or Apple, that's why I suggested him that
I haven't finished configuring it. But am excited. I would say this is a pretty high end laptop. And perhaps rivaling and surpassing the XPS line in many ways. On top of the option for Xeon processors and ECC RAM (which I didn't feel I needed - I went with a quad-core and standard RAM), the 17" version of this machine offers the option for RAID5 using NVMe M.2 drives. Note, for this, you need a special interposer connector and caddy. (Mine should arrive this week, and then I hope to have three Samsung Pro 950 drives.
But there is more to this than just internals. The laptop is a noticeable notch or two higher than my old 17" Dell workstation. First off, the bottom are made of thin but strong metal plates. Button slides, battery plate comes off. Slide a lever to remove the battery.There is your 2.5" drive bay easily accessible as well. It all feels of very high build quality and engineering. Lots of metal as opposed to plastic. Very nice...
Remove two screws, and a second larger plate is able to be slid off. Wow...beautiful. About 10 different module bays. Two bays for NVMe M.2 drives, two easily accessed memory slots, bays for WLAN cards, WiFi, and a host of others. Very nice having such easy access rather than having to remove keyboards, disconnect monitors, etc. This is a very nicely engineered machine.
Can't wait to run my new 17" laptop with 4K screen, and RAID 5 NVMe drives. This is my first new workstation purchase in 10 years. My last was in 2006, also a Dell. It was replaced in the fourth year under warranty. Replacement is now 6 years old. So I figured it was time...
The lack of dual 32" monitors is a real dealbreaker for the laptop.
Anybody know how well this can be Hackintoshed?
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