Precision 7510 Owner's Thread

You do not need to install drivers for the monitor. "Generic PnP Monitor" is what is normal to see. If you want to see which monitor you actually have you can use a tool like hwinfo64.

 

My machine was delivered Monday to office and I have had some minimal time working at it (mainly just getting Linux and Win10 installed plus my various tools), and have some things to report.

• The FHD IPS panel is the best I've ever seen on a laptop, hands down. The backlight goes to a crazy-high level and the color gamut and contrast are great. Granted I'm a programmer/engineer and not a designer so I don't own colorimeters or things like that.
• The keyboard is kind of ****, but I knew it would be. It doesn't even come close to touching the typing experience on current Thinkpad chiclets (to which I am partial). I don't mind the layout too much but the keys are too small and there is too much space between them. Yuck.
• The trackpad is pretty acceptable, but still not as good as the glass trackpads were on the old HP Elitebook workstations. The Dell has kind of a textured feel to it, which I suspect helps reduce friction without being as expensive as glass might be.
• HDMI is pretty useless, IMO, unless you're more of a business-type who plugs into a lot of projectors and TVs for presentation. I would have preferred something like 3 miniDP or 2 standard DP or something.
• I like UEFI but I don't see why we need mouse pointers and slowness when we can have keyboard navigation only and teh snappy in our BIOSes.
• Just to reiterate, the keyboard is pretty much ****. If you intend to actually type on your laptop, look elsewhere.
• The performance is great on this machine but sadly my slowest tools are all slow because they're not very well-written (iBwave, Windcatcher), not because the hardware is inadequate.

 

It's remarkable how people see identical things differently. The FHD IPS screen is a major letdown imo, and the keyboard is superb! To each his own.

Regarding the screen, could you do a quick check in Device Manager and see what HardwareID comes up? Thanks.

 

Likewise, I find I type faster on this keyboard than several other full size ones. I agree the screen has a negative quality to it (screen door effect) but it does have some other good qualities. It is bright, has decent color gamut, good contrast and uniformity. Do you not find it to possess those qualities?

 

Yes I understand this. I'm trying to identify why the 4K IGZIO premium monitor we paid good money for is a complete letdown. It is worse than my 6 year old M6500. It looks like a 10 year old TN monitor. I did a fresh install of windows 10 (from microsoft mirror) and have installed everything I can for drivers. The only things which won't install are two broadcom devices which i don't believe should affect the monitor. the chipset, video cards and PremiumColor app are all working.

Here is a quick image I took off my phone with it next to a Lenovo 14 (1080p LG IPS screen) - it doesnt tell half the story however you can see the big dark spots and the overall colour / contrast (yes it's set to maximum there) and viewing angles are something indicative of a 10 year old TN monitor. I just don't understand...



I truly do hope its a software issue otherwise im going to cry. I don't have time to be sending this away etc... to swap for the 1080p if this is how they IGZIO is truly meant to be..... this is not acceptable by any means.

Well my IGZIO screen is beyond a letdown.. the keyboard, although no where near as "solid" as previous prevision models, I can live with.. Also, hardware info for my screen is:

Monitor Name: Sharp LQ156D1
Monitor Name (Manuf): LQ156D1 [DELL P/N: 43N80]
Monitor Hardware ID: Monitor\SHP1430
Date Of Manufacture: Week: 36, Year: 2015

 

I don't think any software is going to be able to actually change the viewing angle. Dark spots like that are normally from inconsistent backlighting which I also don't think you can adjust via software. Sad day, I'd recommend having it replaced once (you don't have to send it away) to see if you get a different model or maybe the particular panel you have has an issue. Some people seem really happy with the 4K so it should be possible to get a good one...

 

I've had dark spots like that before on an IPS screen - you're going to need a replacement

You might be able to have Dell send over a tech with a new screen and replace it, but I believe this warranty detail depends on your location and I'm not sure where you are.

The brightness/contrast and poor viewing angles are qualities of this particular 4k IGZO panel so those won't change with a replacement. The IPS screen has it beat in those areas but has its own issues, like a prominent screen door effect and lower color gamut (89.5% sRGB vs. 100% on IGZO).

 

The 4K screen is just rubbish. I commented on this in earlier pages of this thread. It has the screen door effect and is not very bright. I got a replacement due to sleep issues because Dell would not give me my money back and did not even let me change the model. The replacement had the exact same problems with the screen. Thank god I have a monitor at work and at home so I don't have to look at that awful screen.

A few people have also noted already that the fans of this thing won't turn off. I also pointed this out and was called out for it. Someone claimed that my unit was faulty and that their machine was dead silent. Mine is only dead silent if I do absolutely nothing on the machine in power saver or balanced mode. In the last few pages this has been mentioned by a few people so my suspicions are confirmed.

I went all out with 3k euro and thought I would get a top of the line machine. Now I'm just riding this investment out until it is time to dump it. Too bad that there are people still buying it and reporting the exact same problems I have with the machine.

 

My 7510 came with an AMD graphics card. I would have ordered it without a graphics card if that was an option, but you are forced to select one. I do not use any applications that need graphics support since I'm mostly working in Eclipse editing text. I purchased this laptop since I needed fast disk IO, memory, processor to support VMware.

I believe the graphics card does not use up much power if no applications are not making use of it. Can anyone confirm that this is true? If so, I won't bother trying to disable the AMD graphics in device manager.

I disabled the AMD graphics in Device Manager, but after that I kept getting warning messages regarding device drivers. I enabled the graphics and the messages stopped. I figured it would just use the graphics capability of the i7 if I disabled the AMD. Any ideas why it generates messages when I disable it?

Is the AMD graphic card doing anything beneficial for me given that I don't run applications that are known to be graphics intensive. This is a work computer so I don't play games on it.

 

With Nvidia optimus, the card is only used if there is an application that will take advantage of it. Nvidia driver also lets you set which GPU to use. AMD driver may have the same.