Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

Don't think it's mandatory but since I got it from the stock drive, I placed it on the 950. I read in couple other threads that the 950 does get hot compared to the PM951 and if it's stressed enough it will throttle. I haven't done any stress test to confirm that report. I will report back with the steps when I get some time at home.
Edit: My bad, the article spoke about SM951 throttling:
http://www.legitreviews.com/samsung-sm951-512gb-m-2-pcie-ssd-review_161689/3

FYI, the Magician only started reporting the drive stats after installing the Samsung Nvme drivers. The benchmark shows a slight increase in speed across the board except for the 4K write section (50% reduction). Not sure what impact that has in day to day task ::shrugs::

 

Hi guys i have the 840 evo and i used the Samsung Magician software on rapid mode and os optimization.
I don't no how it's possible but this are my scores. This is not photoshop or fake.
Is almost 2x fast.

 

You're benchmarking your ram not your SSD.


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I am a Linux Developer/Programmer who is looking at buying this machine. I want to dual boot Windows 10 with Arch/Fedora Linux. I am looking at the UHD, Xeon 1505M, 256GB PCIE (will replace with 950 Pro) version. I want the CPU power and excellent form factor this machine offers. I have a couple concerns though.

1. Will the higher end Xeon chips become available soon? (Iris Graphics?)
2. Will this machine suit my purposes for Linux?

I am a bit disillusioned by he apparent lack of quality control on Dell's part. My other option is a Zbook Studio G3.

 

If you're a developer/programmer, then chances are you want a fully functional keyboard, including real Home/End and PgUp/PgDown keys. The 5510 doesn't have those, the HP does. For me, that clinches the decision. But, you can get the 5510 with a larger battery, thus much better battery life, and its the most compact machine in this class. There's always trade-offs.

Like you still waiting for that latest iteration of the Xeon chip, though.

 

So we bought 5 of these machines for deployment at work.

Huge problems with every single machine.

Windows 10 will constantly blue screen with a critical process died error. Dell Replace the Hard Drive and Motherboards on these machines already.
Windows 8.1 doesn't work because on a warm reboot it wont see the hard drive.
Windows 7 wont even load because it constantly wants a driver for a cd/dvd drive, which the machine does not have.

I am about to ask dell for a full refund on all of these machines as clearly there is some severe hardware issues.

 

(For Windows 10)
For the XPS version of this machine, this happens when switching from RAID (with Intel RST drivers) to AHCI.
Did you update the BIOS Version to 1.1.5?

 

Yes I updated the BIOS and have RAID selected for the drive operation.
Still gives the critical process died error.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...-hardware-and-software-problems.784691/page-4
Post #36
But I'm not sure if this is still valid for BIOS 1.1.5

 

As a programmer/developer, I very rarely am bothered about the chording for page up/page down after a year with the M3800. Indeed, I find (having gotten used to it) that it's actually more convenient than going back to the upper corner as on the older Lenovo system (X201) that I use for writing documentation (etc) because the keyboard is otherwise so good.

Not sure why they didn't go to the "happy medium" from the older Latitudes of the PgUp/PgDn on the shoulders of the directional buttons, but with the flush bottom rather than 7-row, it would be a bit squashed. I have zero use for a 10-key, so my "ideal" keyboard would be matching the tenkeyless/84-key desktop layout but the only notebook I've ever seen with that is that monster MSI.

It still beats the oversize left/right, shrunken up-down on HPs. Until I saw the present keyboard layout used by HP, I'd have said "y'all are being very silly" to make the keyboard layout a "I won't buy this" for a machine, but there's no way I'd buy one of the current HPs.

I should probably stop looking into this thread; I'm not even considering the 5510 any longer. I'd rather have the bigger memory limit, GPU (and MXM slot) and ability to get a big battery AND a hard drive with the 7510/7710, or save a whole lot of money (and be able to use lower-wattage PSUs, for example on planes, and dispense with the foolishness of having a too-small-for-gaming GPU I don't want) and get an E5470 (or maybe a E5570 or T460p, assuming they have a quad-core/no-dGPU option.)