Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

I think I was talking about the AdobeRGB, sorry about that.
So which one you think you will choose? I just want to mention that if you choose larger battery, you can no longer have the HDD. And it is pain if you want to put a PCI ssd into the 5510 if you want to use windows 7.

 

No worries

If ever, I will chose a 5510 with a the smaller battery. Its just odd that the Dell configurator only goes up to 1TB for the mechanical spinning hard drive; I would prefer a 2GB one. I will then upgrade with a 500GB M.2 SSD.

I am will go with windows 10 but thanks for the heads up regarding 7.

 

My experience was this. Initial setup was a cloned w10 to the pm951 using MBR and legacy BIOS. Boot was pretty fast probably what you we seeing 25 sec or less from power on to login. When I switch to GPT and UEFI (secure) the boot time increased substantially again probably what you are seeing 45~55 seconds.

This doesn't help you much I just thought it might help in your research.

I have all the latest updates.

 

That is strange. I have to wonder if Dell is limiting options to avoid competition with the m7510? Although the m5510 does seem to cost more. It is hard to figure out Dell marketing sometimes....

 

The 5510 only takes 7mm (or 5mm) 2.5" drives. As far a I know, the only 2TB 7mm mechanical drive is the Seagate one which started shipping several months after the 5510 did, and the 2TB Samsung SSDs would be about US$3000 with Dell markup.

 

Hi guys,

The Dell's business agent told me that the BIOS version I'll be getting in my machine is 1.04.14.

But on Dell's website it says Version: 01.02.00 ,01.02.00.

So I'm confuse now. Are they the same?

Thanks a bunch.

 

They are probably just confused, 1.04.14 is the current version number for the Precision 7510 and 7710 BIOS.

 

Hi guys, has anyone had trouble upgrading to the newer Windows 10 1511 10586? Mine fails every time, tried tons of work arounds, installing from the ISO, etc. and nothing works, thinking of getting rid of this laptop now.

 

Running 10586 on a few 5510's without any trouble. If your machine shipped with Windows 10, I'm surprised 10586 was not on there already.

If you are having issues with the upgrade, you will probably have to check for install logs and see what is happening, address and resolve it. A pain, but it's likely a software issue and not hardware. I've had to do this a couple of times but don't remember enough to be useful. You should check articles/forums more specific to Windows 10 (and not 5510 specifically) for assistance.

 

I don't believe it's hardware either, but none of the various forums or discussions helped, there are tons of posts about the exact issue and many don't seem to be able to resolve it, and this appears to be one of those times. I assume since the machine can't upgrade to build 1511 10586 it also won't receive any newer updates/fixes/features going forward as I'll be handicapped on build 10240.