new Dell Precision 5510 (Twin of XPS15)

Around 8 hours with the large battery and 4k display. I have read that the 4K display uses more power and that you should be able to get up to 14 hours with the FHD panel. That said, there is no way I would personally not have the 4K display on this machine. The 4K panel is one of the best I have ever seen.

 

Great news, I was hoping for 8 with Dell saying 10-11.

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You could probably get more than 8 if you had the screen all the way down and were using the power saving mode. When I say 8, I mean 8 hours of normal office-type usage with the Wifi On and the screen at a medium brightness. I am sure the min/maxers will get more.

(edit - defined normal)

 

Bioshock 1920x1080:
High - 64.44 fps
VeryHigh - 54.83 fps
UltraDX11 - 48.77 fps
UltraDX11_DDOF - 38.18 fps

Looking at notebookcheck's 960m page, it looks like the 960M does an average of 44 fps on the UltraDX11_DDOF test with a range of 37 - 47 fps.

 

So it seems like the M1000M is only a bit worse than the 960M for gaming, just like your scores suggested. Thank you so much for this! My main concern now is the price difference between the two models, I suppose the quadro and some added services will make this more expensive than the XPS.

 

Hi do you have any method to check the number of PCI-E lanes assigned to the M.2 slot? Thanks

 

Unfortunately, the M3800 was constructed like an XPS, not like a Precision, and I've been unhappy with its lack of sturdiness. It's also got a consumer (AMI?) BIOS rather than a professional one like the Latitude/Precision line, and came with a 1 year base warranty. That's the biggest reason that I'm leaning (strongly) towards the 7510 instead for my next machine (or maybe the 7710, if they've brought the weight down enough.)

It won't be, even if it's improved from the M3800/XPS 9350. Impossible to build that well and make it as light/thin. The interesting question is whether the 7510/7710 will still be.

I would still say that unless you need the ISV approved drivers, it is very much "same machine" for all reasonable intents and purposes. Configurability may favor the 5510, but if they don't open up configurability for non-Premier customers for a long time (as happened with the M3800) that only applies to folks with Premier.

 

Not sure if the information is reliable in any way, but:

 

If you look at the warranty options on the new XPS 15, they offer four yr, NBD for a (IMHO) reasonable $300. If Dell didn't think it would last for four years, I doubt they would offer to warranty it for that long...

 

Truthfully, depending on the price, I am beginning to question whether or not I really need a Dell Precision 15 or can just get away with a XPS 15. Although we'll see when the Precisions are actually released, it seems more and more like the XPS is not that much more "premium" than the Precision line anymore.

Sad.