Kaby Lake Precision pre-release discussion (5520 / 7520 / 7720)

Might be Dells answer to compensate the loss of 16:10: "Now you get even more display area, not only more pixels (FHD to 4K)". I would still prefer WUXGA (1920x1200) *with* "narrow border" option for the 17" Precision

 

Physically larger display even if same resolution might mean you can keep scaling closer to 100% native, which i think is a good thing. Have to wait and see what the pros and cons are after someone reviews it

 

I don't think it could be more than 0.3" or 0.4" larger so it wouldn't have a big impact on how much scaling you need...

 

Would it be possible to have both a M2PCIe and a normal SSD harddrive with each their own operating system and dualboot?

 

Maybe narrow border simply means edge to edge glass overlay, while the actual display is same 17.3" diagonal? Meaning plastic bezel is narrow, but the display not edge to edge (as in my covet m6500 which was advertized as "edge to edge" but referred to the glass). The description of the narrow border still says 17.3 display, unless that is a typo.

 

Yes, nothing special about the 5520/7520/7720 here, you can set it up just like any other two-drive dual-boot configuration.

I think we need someone to get one and take a picture.

 

I`ve analyzed the line of Dell Precision laptops with videoadapters:

Precision 5520
NVIDIA Quadro M1200

Precision 7520
Radeon Pro WX 4130
Radeon Pro WX 4150
NVIDIA Quadro M1200
NVIDIA Quadro M2200


Precision 7720
Radeon Pro WX 4130
Radeon Pro WX 7100
NVIDIA® Quadro P3000
NVIDIA Quadro P4000
NVIDIA Quadro P5000


and I think that a more reasonable distribution of video adapters between the series would be the following:

Precision 7520

Radeon Pro WX 4150
NVIDIA Quadro M2200
NVIDIA® Quadro P3000

Precision 7720

Radeon Pro WX 7100
NVIDIA Quadro P4000
NVIDIA Quadro P5000

I would like to know what in Dell think about it?

 

Precision 7520 takes a MXM 3.0a graphics card, the smaller kind. We currently have little reason to believe that the P3000 will be offered in this form factor... It will not physically fit in the 7520.

Dell is not going to be offering it in the 7520, they don't change the GPU lineup between generations.

 

Close to pull the trigger on the fastest 7720 I can get (doing heavy SolidWorks at 13000 components and plan to get VR kit) but it is rated at 11000$ Canadian! Do you thing price will drop in a few month or it will hold value ? From my experience they don't move price that much within 6 month. Price is lower by phone by experience but I can't say if reference price drop with time and how fast.

 

Is the Radeon Pro WX 4150 worth the extra 100$ compared to P3000?
And is P4000 much better than P3000?