Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

At this stage in the machine's lifecycle, I'm not sure there were any M3800 yet, either.

 

There were 20 Precision 5510 in the Dell UK Outlet yesterday. I was tempted by:

• Precision M5510
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-6820HQ Processor (Quad-Core, 8MB Cache 2.70 GHz)
• English Windows® 7 Professional
• 16GB (2x8GB) 2133MHz DDR4 Non-ECC
• 1TB PCIe Solid State Drive
• No Optical Device
• NVIDIA Quadro M1000M 2GB GDDR5
• Intel 8260 2x2 802.11ac 2.4/5GHz + Bluetooth 4.1
• Primary 6-cell 84W/HR Battery
• 15.6" UltraSharp FHD IPS(1920x1080) Wide View Anti- Glare with LED backlit display
• Internal Qwerty Backlit Keyboard

For £1110+ VAT.

I then reminded myself that the bigger PSU offsets some of the weight saving compared to my E5570, the keyboard has a poor set of navigation keys and there wouln't be anywhere to put the M.2 2242 SSD which I have just ordered to boost the storage in my E5570.

John

 

they show up but only for seconds at a time.. they're being bought by bots or something and sold on amazon or ebay...

 

Does the precision have the same FHD ghosting issues as the XPS 15?

 

I've got a 5510 with FHD and I've never had any ghosting issues.

 

Very little size difference in the new 130 adapter and the old 90. The 130 is the same size and only about an inch longer than the new 65w adapter.

I would have been all over that deal if it had the UHD screen.

 

The UHD panel causes a big price hike:
£1320 + VAT gets you:

Spoiler

• Precision M5510
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-6820HQ Processor (Quad-Core, 8MB Cache 2.70 GHz)
• Windows 10 Pro (64bit)
• 32 GB DDR4 Non- ECC 2133Mhz (16GBx2)
• 1TB PCIe Solid State Drive
• No Optical Device
• NVIDIA Quadro M1000M 2GB GDDR5
• Intel 8260 2x2 802.11ac 2.4/5GHz + Bluetooth 4.1
• Primary 6-cell 84W/HR Battery
• 15.6" UltraSharp UHD IGZO (3840x2160) Touch Wide View LED backlit display
• Internal Qwerty Backlit Keyboard

or £1125+VAT for:

Spoiler

• Precision M5510
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-6820HQ Processor (Quad-Core, 8MB Cache 2.70 GHz)
• English Windows® 7 Professional
• 32 GB DDR4 Non- ECC 2133Mhz (16GBx2)
• 256GB PCIe Solid State Drive
• No Optical Device
• NVIDIA Quadro M1000M 2GB GDDR5
• Intel 8260 2x2 802.11ac 2.4/5GHz + Bluetooth 4.1
• Primary 6-cell 84W/HR Battery
• 15.6" UltraSharp UHD IGZO (3840x2160) Touch Wide View LED backlit display
• Internal Qwerty Backlit Keyboard

John

 

There's a new 130W? My M5510 and the ones they just ordered for the rest of the engineers in my office all had the same 130W supply as the M3800. Nicely compact (especially compared to the monstrous 130W that came with E-docks in the past) but quite a bit heavier than any of the Dell 90W and pretty chunky compared to the early-E-series slimline 90W and blander brick style ones that have come since. Utterly huge compared to the tiny new rounded 65W the E5450 and E5470 come with.

All in all, not awful; the biggest issue for me is that they instantly trip airliner seat power circuit breakers (technically, those are 75W max so even 90W risk that, although they did fine with the regular Dell 90W and my E6430.)

 

Just thought I'd throw this out there in case you're on the fence because of PSU size. I don't have other recent Dell PSUs to compare against, but it's really pretty small for the 130W it packs. I used to have a Lenovo W520, and the power brick was at least 50% larger if not closer to 100% larger. I don't think you will find this brick to be larger than the brick for a non-workstation notebook. Low-wattage ultrabooks may be a different story though, can't say.

Anyway, what I actually wanted to mention is that you can charge via USB-C up to 100W. Currently, there aren't any 100W USB-C chargers on the market that I'm aware of. I believe the Dell thunderbolt 3 dock goes beyond the USB standard and provides the entire 130W (pretty sure, but don't quote me on that), but that's going beyond the USB PD standard's 100W max, and it's no where near being a small standalone power brick.

Searching Amazon, the highest wattage I was able to find a week ago was 75W with a max of 60 going to the USB-C port (It has USB A ports too). The Chromebook Pixel charger is also 60W, and multiple people have confirmed that it will charge the 5510. I didn't find much info about charging speed, but I came across two different people claiming it doesn't charge substantially slower than the 130W brick provided you aren't using the dedicated graphics. If you're using the dGPU intensively it might help maintain a stable or slowly declining charge level, but it won't charge the battery.

Personally, if I'm doing heavy GPU intensive tasks, I'm almost always in the same location. In the future I plan to leave the 130W brick at that location and carry around a smaller USB-C charger when I'm on the go. The USB-C charger can also charge my Nexus 6P, so not only is it smaller, but it'll cut out the need for a phone charger too. Some of the chargers going forward will be able to charge both simultaneously.

I'm going to wait for a higher wattage USB-C charger to become available myself, but I don't think it'll be long. The current high wattage ones on Amazon are very new, and new stuff is coming out every day. One of the semiconductor vendors has announced a charging chipset that supports 100W, and I saw a headline about an OEM implementing that chipset. So who knows how long, but so far my experience with USB-C has been awesome and I'm looking forward to going all in.

You probably already know this, but the 130W supply is intended to be able to charge the battery at a good rate while both the CPU and GPU are running full blast. That's rarely the case for many of us. I believe both the CPU and GPU have a TDP of 45W each, so that's approximately 90W at full blast leaving 40W to charge the battery. This probably explains why the 60W USB-C charger can be comparably fast when the system is being lightly used.

 

I did a quick search of the thread on Tapatalk, and nothing came up, but I'd be surprised if this hasn't already come up at some point.

Ebates.com periodically offers 12-15% cash back on purchases from Dell small business. Other times it's only 2%, but in the couple months I was watching, it bounced back and forth twice, so waiting for it is probably a good bet.

I saved literally over $300 US on my system from Ebates alone. I got a check in the mail within 10 days of the purchase, so I can personally tell you the whole thing is legit. I think they expedite the first check sent to new members and otherwise checks are sent quarterly, so if you're an existing member you might need to wait. It's not a bad strategy of their part - breeds confidence in new users that the whole thing is legit.

You can generally use other Dell coupon codes with the cash back (read the fine print first!), but you need to order online. If a Dell rep plays any part on creating the order, you won't qualify for the cash back!!

I believe I used a Dell 35% off coupon code and got 15% cash back from Ebates. Huge savings!

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