Dell Precision 7560 & Precision 7760 pre-release discussion

17 inch is a big screen size improvement from 15 inch (I would think even more so with photo editing), but if you use an external monitor to edit images, it doesn't really matter.
Regarding the screens, the 7760 has a 120hz version of the 4k screen, but that wouldn't be of any use with your use case.

 

I'm assuming it's because I doubled my memory..

BTW: Dell is now offering 32GB ECC SODIMMS that are 3200Mhz. https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/sho...8-ddr4-sodimm-3200mhz-ecc/apd/ab489615/memory and their price is reasonable. Currently around $220 per module.

 

Phew, well there's your aftermarket option. Around half of the price of ordering it with the system (...more or less depending on which config you pick).
[Edit] It's way cheaper than the non-ECC version! https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/sho...-2rx8-ddr4-sodimm-3200mhz/apd/ab120716/memory

 

I spend many hours every day retouching photos in Lightroom on a 7730. Mostly I use 43" external monitors, but when I'm on the road I use the 17" laptop panel. I can tell you that it makes a big difference vs a 15" panel. It's personal preference, of course, but once you use larger monitors, it's hard to use smaller ones with Lightroom. If it was me, I'd bite the bullet and get the larger screen, even though it adds weight and bulk.

 

Coming back to this... any thoughts about using an eGPU enclosure like a Razer Core X with the 7730 for now rather than installing a Quadro RTX 4000 like you suggested? It wouldn't be portable, of course, but it might get me by until the day that the 7760 goes on sale and the price becomes more palatable.

 

I kinda regret not getting a Xeon with this memory available, but too bad they don't have 16gb modules since I only want 32gb ram for now (cost reasons )
Non-ECC memory is still half the price of ECC memory though

 

https://www.dell.com/en-us/member/s...8-ddr4-sodimm-3200mhz-ecc/apd/ab640683/memory

 

That's very interesting. I've heard that ECC memory often works with non-ECC mainboards/CPUs (simply by not using the ECC feature). Has anyone experience with this regarding the Precision Laptops?

 

$130 is quite expensive for 16gb... that's the same cost as 32gb non-ecc ram
Personally, I would prefer the slight bandwidth/speed increase with non-ECC ram when I need to access lots of system memory. $500 just isn't worth the slight extra stability since 90% of the instability that I encounter is from programs (Blender with large scenes, Davinci Resolve when applying intensive effects). But my use case for a mobile workstation is definitely interesting and others do much more important work than what I do.
There is absolutely no way I could convince my parents to spend the extra $$$ for ECC memory; they were reluctant to even get the A4000 over the A3000

 

But... why would you? Transferring the ECC RAM to a future machine?