Precision 7510 Owner's Thread

Have any owners here using Linux had any trouble connecting external displays to their machine? I have an existing E-Port Plus docking station and would like to be able to drive Dual WQHD monitors from the machine.

 

Which graphic card series you would like to use: AMD FirPro or NVIDIA Quadro?

AMD FirePro W5170M works very good without external display on HDMI or mDP under Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.10.

 

Preferably the AMD Firepro. I have had issues with the Nvidia M1000M under Linux on my Lenovo P50.

Did you mean that the FirePro has worked ok for you with an external display connected via HDMI or mDP?

 

Yes, I mean. AMD FirePro works very good under Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS with open-source driver and under Ubuntu 15.10 with proprietary driver.

However, there are some issues under other distributions (Fedora and Debian). AMD FirePro W5170M and W7170M are new cards, so work perfectly only under certified distrubutions. Dell Precision 7510 and 7750 are certified for Ubuntu and Red Hat.

 

So what is over all experience with this machine ?

is it good to buy ? or still need more testing.

 

Thank you for the information! Do you use the laptop with hybrid graphics enabled or disabled?

 

My advise is to not buy it. I believe that the Lenovo is a much better buy. IPS screen and a superior keyboard, better heat management and I think a better battery life.

my 7510 gets around 3-4 hours at the moment on balanced power profile (after a fresh install windows 10) and 50% brightness. That's ridiculous. I'm forced to set it on power saver profile and dim the screen all the way down to get around 5 hours.

Dell replaced my motherboard, SSD and screen (on a brand new machine). It looks now that the sleep issues have been resolved. But the machine still has a problem when I plug in an external monitor. The machine locks up and I can't do anything for around 10 seconds. Very frustrating today when it did that during the presentation.

Even after replacement of all these parts the Dell diagnostics tool still gives an error on the SSD but I'm not seeing any problems around it's usage so I don't know what that is about. Still waiting on Dell for a reaction.

Go for Lenovo and you'll be a lot happier.

 

Overall experience is amazing: high quality case, ultra wide gamut (100% AdobeRGB) UHD IGZO display, good keyboard and very high performance. The only issue is strange story with USB-C/Thunderbolt 3.0 port. One day it is available, next day not.

Ubuntu is working perfectly with hybrid graphics enabled (BIOS 1.10, 1.20 and 1.3.10). Unfortunately, Debian and Fedora had some graphic issues with Swtichable graphics on and off in BIOS (v. 1.10, 1.20). I have heard that new version of BIOS (1.3.10) removed the problem, but I am going to stay with Ubuntu LTS.

Lenovo? Do not joke. Dell has: better case, much better display (IGZO is better than IPS), better keyboard. You have some strange problems (probably software problems!), but fact is simple: Dell Precision 7510 has much better configuration than Lenovo P50.

 

The screen is not great. I have seen good screens and this is not one of them.

And there you go again blaming me (the paying user) for a problem in the product. The way you defend this machine is ridiculous. I must be doing it wrong right? It cannot be possibly Dell.

After a lot of laptops I would recommend a Lenovo (even earlier generations) over this machine. Despite what some fanboys may think.

 

Thanks again for your comments. Ideally I would like to stay away from Ubuntu (or in my case UbuntuGnome) because generally I have had less instability with Debian Jessie. With backports enabled most of the newer hardware is supported just as well as under Ubuntu.

I initiated an RMA for the Lenovo P50 today. It's a well built machine, but its not very usable for me at work as we are always connected to a pair of large external displays (two of us programmers mirror the display and work together to fix bugs and work on features). Sadly the Latitude E7450 can actually do this better than the P50 but the ULV processor runs much slower than the full voltage quad core. The P50 does have an amazing keyboard, but I find myself using an external keyboard 75% of the time so its not a big deal for me. In the end if Dell actually supports Linux via necessary bios and driver updates, then thats a major win for me when choosing. It doesn't matter how much cheaper or powerful the competitor is if the software or OS is not usable.