Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

I think the more you type with it the more you'll grow accustomed to it. I learned as a kid on an Underwood mechanical typewriter, which had something like 3/4" key travel and required a hard and fast stroke. Kind of like going from hammer action.on a piano to unweighted keys on a keyboard.

There's a lot of talk about key travel, and Dell's is not a lot but we're talking about .1-.2mm difference. That's not a lot. I think more important is the amount of progressive "weighting" of the springs or scissors of the key mechanism. Some offer faster spring back, some have more damping feel. If you tend to rest your palms on the palm rests, try not doing so and see if your "touch" changes.

 

The keyboard is clearly designed to copy the Mac, the same style and layout, hence no home and end buttons to not sacrifices the straight layout an visual appearance. Some might prefer functionality over appearance....
I have no problem typing with this keyboard, I very much appreciate the symmetric position but lack home, end key. On the upside print screen have a dedicated button.
I'm planning to reprogram some of the f-keys to do home & end...

Could you have a virus? I remembered in the late 90's, we used to install a "virus" that auto misspelled when typing as a prank. Almost like the iOS spellchecker .

Ps. The Nordic keyboard is hysteric with up to 3 letter combinations for some keys (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian I believe). But I took a black marker and covered the "wrong" letters, much better!




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I've got my Precision 5510 with Windows 7, and I'm thinking about upgrading to Windows 10. However, I have no real issues and fear the instability many experience might come from Windows10?
I'm happy with the mouse pad (software), how the system performance and have had NO crashes. So only reason for me to upgrade is to be able to scale my monitors differently. It sucks having 200% scaling on 27" UHD monitor while I'm unable to use the 4K laptop monitor on 100% scaling.

 

But why the xps 15 has windows 10 and precision 5510 has windows 7.

 

The answer is simple: the XPS is purely a consumer laptop meaning that it will get whatever OS is the latest and consumer preference be damned. The 5510 is aimed at businesses, many which still use Windows 7, it's a lot more complicated to deploy a new OS on a business' network, not to mention that management has to decide to make the switch in the first place (good luck getting that passed the bean counters and that's if IT is ready/wants to make the switch in the first place). That means that Windows 7 is what many businesses buying these laptops will be using still and they'll likely use it until 2020 when they'll be forced to switch for security reasons (and again, that's if they're smart enough to switch, some people out there are running unsecured XP on machines connected to the Internet).

 

Okey i'm understanding now. I have purchased the 5510 with xeon and will be replaced the ssd for the samsung 950 pro. Then i must have Windows 10. I'm right or wrong.

I will it use for video editing.

 

XPS = content consumer
Precision = content creator

 

Up to you. In some countries the 5510 can be configures with Windows 10

 

It should be added that the Windows 7 version also has a valid Windows 10 license "included" so you can totally order the default Windows 7 and upgrade to 10 should you feel like it.

A question for owners, did anyone notice any kind of thermal throttling. I'm seriously considering this laptop as a replacement for my aging M6700. I'll miss the docking port, but oh well.

 

Okay, I went ahead and picked up an XPS 15 because, for an equal or better configuration (except for the different GPU), it was in-stock and hundreds of dollars cheaper than the Precision 5510.

Then I installed Photoshop CC 2015 on the XPS 15. And every time I open Photoshop...the OS kernel crashes. Blue screen. Boom.

It turns out that Photoshop's graphics acceleration works fine with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M--but gets really angry when the computer wants to switch back and forth between the integrated Intel HD Graphics 530 and the discrete NVIDIA GPU.

If I start Photoshop in full-screen mode using the "run with NVIDIA GPU" option (either via right-click on the shortcut or via program assignment in the NVIDIA control panel) then Photoshop runs fine...until I bring up another window (which uses integrated graphics) at the same time. At which point the computer crashes.

If I disable the Intel graphics completely in Device Manager, everything is fine--but I assume that battery life also sinks like a rock.

Should I have picked up a Precision 5510 with the Quaddro 1000M GPU?

Has anyone tried Photoshop CC 2015 (latest version with updates) on their Precision 5510? With both graphics chips running (integrated and discrete), the default configuration?