Dell Inspiron 7559

Somewhat irritating still that people ordered after me and are getting their machines before me.

 

Orderd mine on Oct 18. Estimated delivery date is 4 Nov. Shows still in pre-production. Don't know whats going on!
Specs: i7 6700HQ, 16GB RAM, UHD Touch, 4GB 960M

 

The back lit keyboard must be the default, at least in some locations. I tried contacting Dell to question the ship speed they were showing on my order to no avail, but when it shipped last night it DID show the 2 day. I'm in Virginia and the Dell location shipping is in Tennessee, which may make a difference. I ordered on 10/16 & should get it on 10/23. Not bad!

 

That gives me some hope, I re-ordered on the 20th and the estimate is 11/9. Hopefully it will not take that long.

 

Is there any meaning to the order status stuck at Pre-production for almost 4 days now?

 

Ordered mine on 10/13 and its still showing 11/2 estimated shipping. I checked this weekend, and it was showing a shipping date of 10/21 for new orders on the Dell website, so it appears as if cancelling my order and placing a new one on the weekend would have resulted in quicker shipping, which makes no sense whatsoever.

 

Does anyone know why the prices changed from 839€ up to 999€ for the base config in italy?
The estimate shipping time increased from 8-11 to 21-25 days too
Anyway , as the description says the italian keyboard must be backlit

 

Forse avevi guardato i prezzi nella sezione aziende dove ci sono i prezzi senza IVA... Per la spedizione dice che è un ritardo dovuto ai processori

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You might want to contact them and see what the hold up is. I think there just might be a delay due to high demand, but couldn't hurt to make sure there isn't an issue with the order.

 

Could anyone get linux installed on this machine ? i tried several distros and all of them fail to load !

 

Have you installed linux on a computer with a NVIDIA graphics card before? You have to add nomodeset to grub to get it to load. The default nouveau drivers don't support 3d acceleration and will fail to load. This is the same for every distribution that I'm familiar with. I plan on installing Fedora on this laptop when I get it. (shipping date is 11/6 right now). Can't wait!

 

[QUObullshifd, post: 10118983, member: 240587"]Have you installed linux on a computer with a NVIDIA graphics card before? You have to add nomodeset to grub to get it to load. The default nouveau drivers don't support 3d acceleration and will fail to load. This is the same for every distribution that I'm familiar with. I plan on installing Fedora on this laptop when I get it. (shipping date is 11/6 right now). Can't wait![/QUOTE]
Hmm this had Optimus.. Ok.. Will try nomodeset

 

Please let me know if you get it to work. I'll do some searching and see if I can find anything. I haven't done anything with optimus before. This will be my first discrete GPU laptop. I've got linux running on my desktop with 3 GTX 980's and 3 4k displays at 60 Hz.

Hmm this had Optimus.. Ok.. Will try nomodeset[/QUOTE]

 

Any information about the M.2 SSD? Can someone who got the model that comes with the SSD, tell us what type of SSD is it? Maybe the model of SSD. Is it SATA III? PCIe? AHCI? NVMe? What are the read/write speeds? Can we upgrade the FHD model by installing the correct type of M.2 SSD?

I ordered at 18/10/2015 and hopefully will be receiving it at 10/11/2015

 

It has arrived. Ordered 14 Oct > Delivered 23 Oct

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ie2izko3gzc2zxm/IMG_20151023_125751.jpg?dl=0

Initial impressions are positive - nice keyboard, 4K screen is beautiful and bright enough.

Palm rest and top are metal (soft touch coating applied)
Base and screen bezel are plastic

Speakers seem really nice with decent depth for laptop speakers, also loud.

I've ordered the i7 6700HQ / 8Gb / 1Tb mechnical drive / UHD touchscreen. Will report back with more images / battery life / monitor pics at angles and anything else you want to know once I'm home.

Initially ran Elite Dangerous @ 1920x1080 Medium settings and everything was smooth (didn't have framerate counter on so can't confirm that just yet, was in a station, which Elite players will know is one of the more graphically demanding areas.

All looks positive so far. UK keyboard, disappointed at the size of the Enter key and Arrow keys, but can live with it. Keys have a nice responce and could imagine typing on this without issue.

 

We'll wait your review!! I'm very courious about the 4k screen because it's the one i would buy (if possible, can you write the panel model?)
Thanks!

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This was already mostly answered earlier in the thread. Somebody installed a SATA III M.2 SSD. We're not sure if it's a dual SATA III/PCIe connection or purely SATA III.

Read/write speeds depend on the model of SSD installed. Of course you can install your own SSD, in both the M.2 slot and 2.5" SATA bay.

 

Biffo28, how do I find the panel type - Device manager? CPU-Z? Let me know and I'll happily provide you the answer.

 

Glad to hear the UHD screen looks good, that is the version I ordered.

 

My order is delivered today. I'm currently typing on it right now. I've not done any spyware/adware check/removal yet, I haven't properly tested the trackpad yet, but first impression is not positive. Keys are okay, but travel distance is on the short side. Will have a more comprehensive review soon.

 

I ordered UHD i7-6700HQ 8gb ram, gtx 960m 4gb version on Oct 15th.
I was looking at the dell page for any change in in production, or shipped, or anything like that but i got impatient and called
Dell customer support yesterday and i complain why it is not changing, what happen to my order
Today when i check my status, it changed to Delivery Preparation

 

Regarding the M.2 socket for an SSD. Although as an other poster has already let us know that it functions fine with SATA II I'm increasingly hopeful that the same socket will also support PCIe Gen 3.0.

Two reasons, we know it has an M Type key most often used for PCIe and also the chipset onboard this model is stated on the Dell website is the Intel HM170, the product brief which can be read here :

http://www.intel.eu/content/www/eu/en/chipsets/mainstream-chipsets/hm170-qm170-chipset-brief.html

It looks to me like the Intel 100 series is specifically designed to take advantage of PCIe so I can see no reason to "downgrade" the M.2 socket to SATA only.

I guess we will only know for sure when someone trys it or when I eventually receive my order, which (UK) incidentally is now given as 1st Dec???

 

There is a new bios that fixes the track pad lagging for anyone who has that problem

 

Alright, just to clear everything up for people I did install a Samsung SATA SSD into the M.2 slot and it has been working perfectly. Afterwards I put a call into Dell to confirm this and the person I spoke to confirmed that this laptop only supports SATA in the M.2 slot. I suppose people can get a PCIe drive and try it, but assuming the Dell rep wasn't wrong it looks like it is only SATA.

Also, the model I have with the 5400 RPM 1 TB SSHD was kind of sluggish on booting and running the OS overall. I bought a small crucial SSD, cloned the drive and swapped it out. Right now it boots up 5x faster. I know the SSHD learn your behavior and so there is a chance that the boot times and the overall OS would run quicker overtime, but even with the cache the 5400 RPM drive just seems slow and outdated. Not sure if anyone else has experienced this or not.

So, if i could go back and do it all over again (and if you can live with and i5) i would probably have waited until the Amazon model came out and bought that. It comes with an 256GB SSD and then i would have just added more storage into the M.2 slots. But, now that the system is fully running on SSD I do really enjoy this laptop. Yes, the fan is blow pretty hard when gaming, but i wear headphones so i never notice it really anyway.

 

Thanks bro .. nomodeset did it .. i could install kubuntu 15.10 on it .. everything works out of the box .. the trackpad is a delight .. so that confirms that it is a windows 10 driver problem .. nvidia driver doesnt work though .. it gets stuck with a black scren after splash .. so that means i cant connect to an external monitor as hdmi is on gpu ..if u find a way to get gpu running do let me know

 

You can download hwinfo, install it-->untick all boxes-->click on run-->go to monitor and it should be there in monitor name and monitor name (manuf). I would also appreciate if someone could say what is the detailed name of fulll hd screen.

 

Thanks again for the feedback, the reason I am most interested is that originally I had ordered an ACER system from Newegg through their UK version of the website at an unbelievably bargain price.

It was unbelievable after all as they went and cancelled my order, reason being this model could not be shipped to the UK! Meanwhile I had gone to the Overclockers site and ordered some accessories for upgrading on arrival. This included the Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe SSD as I knew that the ACER motherboard was compatible.

After my order was cancelled by Newegg I went ahead and ordered the Dell laptop, now I don't know whether to return the SSD, I can't wait until the delivery now as rather than 8-11 days as stated on their website at the time of ordering, they are now advising 1st Dec, 42 days??

Taking a leaf from kwanp12 post above I am onto Customer Support at Dell right now to try and get a better delivery time as promised at order time.

 

I have updated the bios and the driver, but I still can't get the pin-to-zoom to work. How weird!

 

Thanks chaps.

 

I check in the dell site again it it showed me that the product is shipped.
So you should really consider calling Dell in my opinion
i am not saying order it and call in tomorrow

It is delivered through purolator, i am not sure it will come on weekend but dell gave me tracking number and i look it up, it says that it departed sort facility

 

Thank you for your opinion.Alguna estimate of how many hours of very important to me esperar.Es podemas battery.

 

Almost looks like the laptop I searched for. Equal specs like HP Omen and Lenovo Y50, but the case having not their sharp edges. Also it has enough USB slots and a LAN port, which is important. Another good thing is, that it has removed the optical drive (which I really don't want in laptop anymore), and turned me off from the N150SD.
The only disadvantage seems to be, that there is a lot of plastic clutter (on the inside) adding to its weight and maybe making maintenance difficult. Also the weight is 200 grams more than the Lenovo Y50 (2.6kg vs 2.4kg) If it were because of high quality material, then it'd be fine... but it doesn't look like that. Still a good competitor. Will keep it in the back of of my head.

 

For the weight, that's probably because of the battery which seems pretty much bigger than the Lenovo's one.
About that, I would love to know the battery life of this Dell with Air Plane mode On and typing in a Word file

 

Good point, I forgot that.

 

If possible make a video review about screen quality and trackpad responsiveness and also build quality like keyboard and screen flex ,
Screen viewing angles and outdoor visibility
And how is the touch screen responsiveness

 

If possible make a video review about screen quality and trackpad responsiveness and also build quality like keyboard and screen flex ,
Screen viewing angles and outdoor visibility
And how is the touch screenresponsiveness

 

I just had a chat with dell representative and
He told me that this laptop support
PCIe 3.0 (x4) and samsung sm951 will work fine with it

 

Now someone gets to play the game "Which Dell Rep was Right"

 

I've learned to not trust Dell reps.

That being said, apparently my order shipped yesterday. So I'm somewhat less annoyed. Once I get it I'll write up a review, including surface temps, screen calibrations, benchmarks, etc.

 

Thanks in advance man.

 

Well I had chat with two one was sales representative and other was parts upgrade and service expert 1st one redirected me to other when I started asking complex questions about compatibility with ACHI AND NVME drive

 

Hi, could you guys who have recieved the laptop write more about its fan and thermal control?

 

I was on hold with them since 45 min to be redirected to another team that says my Laptop is not in production as some parts maybe unavailable currently and they might ask me to make a few spec changes.

 

Pinch to zoom only doesn't work with Google Chrome. It now works with everything else on my 7559

 

Thanks for the tip. How about pinch to zoom photos? It didn't seem to work.

 

Follow the instructions to install photo viewer . This way you don't have to use the Windows 10 APP.

no problem with pinch and zoom after install.

http://www.howtogeek.com/225844/how...ewer-your-default-image-viewer-on-windows-10/

 

So I've had a few issues with the Nvidia cards on my desktop. One problem I had was it wouldn't boot if the video card was set to EFI so I had to use CSM and set the video card to boot in legacy mode.

Are you using the proprietary drivers?

For my desktop I essentially followed this guide: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/

That guide specifically says that you need to disable the optimus technology in bios to make it work (which wasn't a problem in my desktop).

For this laptop I'll probably try this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee

until I can find a better solution.

 

Some images
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jozvmnewfynh5zi/AAADeWxjDHE8T2CbCoXM2U6na?dl=0

From HWInfo:
Screen (4K Touch): LG Philips LGD04D9 (unknown)
RAM: SK Hynix PC3-12800. See photo

Fans and noise: Ramp up during gaming (to an acceptable level as far as I'm concerned), but very but very quiet during general use

Monitor colour reproduction. Compared to my pro-level desktop (Dell UltraSharp U2713HM) white's are a little on the green/blue side. NOTE THIS EFFECT IS EXAGGERATED IN THE PHOTO, but you can see there's a difference. In reality I'd say it's maybe 20% as bad as the photo would suggest. This is out-of-the-box withoutt any calibration being applied.

Speakers are good, the small sub-woofer really adds some nice depth {located central front on the underside). Obviously these are still laptop speakers but as they go they're not bad at all, and can be quite loud. I wouldn't have an issue listening to music from them if there wasn't an alternative.

Monitor viewing angles - having been spoiled by the superb screen on my previous Sony Vaio Flip 15 (superb screen!) this is better in some ways (4K), but colours seem less vibrant (I'd give the vaio 10/10 and this Dell 4k 7/10 for colour accuracy), but the viewing angles are only slightly worse that the Sony - no problems here.

Build materials and keyboard (UK)- top and palm rest are soft touch metal, the back and monitor bezel are plastic. Keyboard has minimal deflection, nothing of great concern. I personally find the keyboard okay, not a patch on my parent's Latitude 7440, but then that's business build quality and higher end. The key's feel a little cramped with the numpad to the side - would have preferred a larger main keyboard, UK enter key is too narrow, will take some getting used too. General typing is fine but keep mis=hitting the function keys around the perimeter. the cursor keeps jumping around when typing, not sure if it's me hitting certain keys, or a software bug when you press mutliple keys simultaneously when typing (think it's me hitting wrong keys). Keyboard is backlit.

Upgrading: One screw holds a full size back panel,once removed you have access to 2.5" SATA / M.2 2280 SSD bay (unoccupied) / 2x DDR3L SO-DIMM RAM modules, wireless card and anything else you might wish to upgrade.

Battery life remains to be seen but is currently estimated around 5.5 hours from full charge (with monitor at 100% and battery saver mode enabled). Will try and update this post when I have more experience with it.

Gaming. Only tried Elite Dangerous briefly, but it managed a (mostly) stable 60 fps (occasional drops to 50-55 fps) with 1920x1080 res and High default settings. This isn't a particularly demanding game but gives me confidence you could probably play most games if you tweaked the settings to 1600x900 / medium...there's every chance.

 

Gracias guardamos sus comentarios We expect more

 

I am using UEFI but has disabled secure boot from bios . .. ubuntu supports UEFI so had no problems there . There is no option to disable optimus in bios and hence i have to set nomodeset in grub .
i tried a few nvidia driver from ppa ; nvidia-352,nvidia-355 etc ; all of them gives a black screen on boot , so i went back to default nouveau drivers . i have not tried bumblebee but in my old laptop which is also optimus i had used nvidia drivers with nvidia-prime . i dont have the skill to debug whats going wrong in 7559 though