Precision 7510 Owner's Thread

Has anyone used the HP ZBook 200W Dock with the 7510, if so what was your experience? Dell won't be fixing (maybe completely discontinuing) the TB15 dock any time soon, so looking to replace it with this. Main thing I care about is having it charge the laptop and output video to an external monitor at the same time - only 1 wire to plug in to the laptop when I arrive at the office.

If someone has found another TB3 dock that is atleast 200W (the 7510 requires 180w to power, so want some free wattage for peripherals) I'd welcome any other product suggestions. Thanks!

 

I think you'll have a hard time fully powering the 7510 with only the Thunderbolt connection. Even the TB15 will only offer 130W of power to the laptop (no matter how big a power brick you plug in to it), which is enough to fully power the Precision 5510, but the 7510 wants 180W and you will get throttling unless you also connect the regular power connector. Furthermore, the TB15 can be used with non-Dell machines but in this case it will only offer 50W of power (I think?). In the Thunderbolt 3 standard, the maximum amount of power is over the cable is 100W, so Dell is already pushing the envelope a little with their dock.

You should check the specs of the HP dock and see how much power it will actually give the laptop (just because it comes with a 200W power brick does not mean that you can hand that power off to the laptop). I would be rather surprised if any Thunderbolt dock is offering over 130W to the laptop.

 

I have placed an order for the 7510 and I have chosen the 15.6" UltraSharp™ FHD IPS Touch (1920x1080) Wide View instead of the 15.6" UltraSharp™ UHD IGZO (3840x2160) as there appears to be quite a bit of complaint about the UHD IGZO screen. I have read through the forum, however, I have not see anyone mentioned the Touch screen version of this display. I think this touch screen version is a new SKU for the 7510. If you did buy one with the touch screen can I have you comment on this display? Is it as bad as the rest of the people who have reviewed the display without the touch?

The itemized entry for this display is:

1 391-BCFI 15.6" UltraSharp FHD Touch IPS (1920x1080) Wide View LED-backlit with Premium Panel Guarantee

 

I have to confess that I did not skim through the 143 pages and I remember to have read something about the m2 screw but...
So : is there the m2 screw inside the 7510 when the initial config is SSD 2"5 ?
Thanks...

 

Yes it's inclused


Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

 

Hey Everyone,

I have a 7510 on order. My wants for a laptop are a bit odd, so I thought I'd
make a post about it.

My trusty Lenovo x230 finally bit the dust (completely dead, not even a charging
light when the power supply is plugged in) and I now needed a replacement.

I had ordered a 7470 on dell outlet, and for the most part, was quite happy with it.
However It is a bit of a dog when playing games. I had gotten away with it with my
x230 by using an Egpu through the Securecard slot. It's a clunky solution, but it
works. To my dismay the 7470 I received had no Securecard slot. If it had one,
I would probably be keeping it.

In terms of wish list:
- fast CPU for my photography, i.e. browsing (thousands of) RAWs on Lightroom.
- really wanted Thunderbolt 3 for future Egpu expandability (like the Razer Core)
- having all the ports, including ethernet (which I actually do use from time to time)
- ideally small and portable, like the x230.
- I still like having a really large 2.5" drive as backup. I've had problems in the
past where a computer runs out of power/dies (blackout), and the SSD is majorly hosed/corrupted.
This make SSD only computers (like the xps) a turn off for me. Perhaps I'm overly paranoid.
In the x230 I had a smallish (256 GB) ssd for the boot/apps drive, + 1TB 2.5 for data
(and imaging the boot drive!)


Last week, however, there was a lovely combination of coupons/sale, which for $1711
got me the 7510 with i7-6820, UHD IGZO, M2000m, 16 Gig (2x8), 1TB 2.5" HD, 6 cell long life battery,
backlit keyboard, and (non-fips) finger print sensor. (I'll add in a SSD later - recommendations?)
It was a sale + stackable coupon + preferred account discount. I had my eye on the xps13,
but couldn't resist. The size/weight is more than I liked, but oh well, can't have everything,
and extra durability (knock on wood) would be worth it in the long run. There is definitely a lack
of reviews of this laptop online.

I'm hoping with the expandability this laptop can last me a long long time.
It just shipped, should arrive soon.

I'll post other notes and comments once I get it. For example, I used a D3100 with the E7470,
hopefully it plays nice with the D7510.

An initial question:

Has anyone tried powering the laptop on an airplane?
The airplane power port won't handle the stock charger, clearly. However, can you
throttle the laptop down and use a usb-C charger to extend the battery life?
(and then, perhaps, charge the powered down laptop?)

- Frank

 

I would say the best answer here is maybe. I received my first 7510 in March and it did not have the screw. Then due to a BIOS update that bricked my Thunderbolt port, Dell sent me 4 replacement 7510's (first 3 had various issues/incorrect builds). All but one of those had the screw included. So my guess is, early builds did not include the screw, and later builds do.

 

You can use power adapters as low as 65 W and the system will operate (throttled) and charge the battery while powered off or in sleep mode. It can be powered by USB-C as well, I'm not sure how much power in watts USB-C chargers meant for a phone put out though, not sure if it would be happy with anything lower than 65 W. Maybe 50 W would be OK.

 

Wanted to mention something about the keyboard:
There were lots of complaining about the home/end key being on the
arrow keys earlier in this thread.

What you probably don't notice until you use the keyboard (It was same on my
7470) is that the bottom of the arrow keys is slightly below the level of the
other keys). So the arrow keys 'stick out' and that makes it fairly easy
to find them.

My 7470's keyboard was not backlight and my room isn't the brightest, which
made typing on it extremely annoying. I had, however, no problem at all finding
the arrow keys, and therefore the home/end keys. It was still a little wierd
that the arrows were smaller, but it's really not that bad.

 

This isn't bad, what is a problem is keyboard shortcuts like Shift+End (select to end of line) or Ctrl+Shift+End (select to end of document) which become a lot more cumbersome with the Fn key mixed in as well...