Dell 7540 - Custom Order No Drive

Does anyone know if you can order a Dell Precision 7540 Mobile Workstation without a hard drive and OS?

 

You cannot.

 

Hi, @Aaron44126!

Thanks for the quick response, my friend!

I was looking to pick up a new machine with the IGZO display, but it requires the 6-cell battery. Unfortunately, the 6-cell battery uses up the 2.5" SSD slot, which would force me to pay an additional $160 for an already overpriced M.2 drive; technically, the total cost for the M.2 drive is $230, if you count what they are already charging for the base 2.5" 500GB 7200RPM SATA drive then add the $160 for the upgrade. It just galls me that they are charging so much, when you can buy a highly respected name brand 256GB M.2 NVME drive for $70 and an off brand for $45 on Amazon.

Further, I already have three 1TB M.2 NVME drives that I would be transplanting from one of our old laptops, so we wouldn't even be able to really take advantage of 256GB if we were forced to buy it. I suppose it could serve as an emergency backup, or maybe a Linux drive on one of our test machines, but it just seems unnecessary.

So, there is my complaint session. Thank you for being my momentary therapist.

For real, though, thank you for your help! I truly do appreciate it!