Posts by ALSW123

Lenovo halves its ThinkPad workstation range

Re: get a graphic workstation? good luck. Time for a custom Clevo frame laptop

It's only the 5000 series such as the 5570 and 5770 that a lacking ethernet ports. The soon to be launched 7000 series (7670 16 inch and 7770 17.3 inch) still have ethernet ports and upgradable Ram (well CAMM) m.2 ssd and its relatively easy to do so.

Plus dell Pro Support is excellent next business day or 4 hour optional onsite support to fix issues and replace components at no cost. That is a big factor for both large organisations and individual contractors, Downtime = loss of productivity and money.

While we use it rarely its certainly paid off, when something goes its minimal hassle to get it fixed the support staff really know their stuff, whereas when we had basic support it was off a script and very poor.

Even had one usercrecently with an almost 3 year old laptop where they couldn't get the spare parts quickly to fix it... Instead Dell gave them a latest generation equivilant with much better specs, no quibbling just sorted it

Re: get a graphic workstation? good luck. Time for a custom Clevo frame laptop

Only the thin and light options which are mostly derived from the XPS chassis have not ethernet to my knowledge? e.g. Precision 5570 and 5770

You have to use a USB c adaptor.

The full on purpose built Precision 7000 series retain ethernet, e.g soon to be launched Precision 7770 17.3 inch see spect sheet

https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/workstations/technical-support/precision-7770-spec-sheet.pdf

HP Too, Dell keeping 17.3 inch

HP have done the same with their Zbook Fury range they will now only offer a 16.0 inch model which like the Lenovo is pretty much a 15.6 inch chassis with a slightly taller screen. However Dell have gone to Precision 7670 16.0 inch but have also kept their 7770 17.3 Inch.

From what I hear Dell have far more volume in the Workstation market so it may well be this is the reasoning behind the changes.

I'm not convinced that you can cool the ever more powerful graphics like the A5500 topping 150W as well in a 15.6/16.0 form factor especially with the Cpu demands also increasing. so for me the 17 inch form factor is going to my choice for performance until I can test options.

Having said that I have the current Precision 7760 17.3 inch myself putting it up against a colleagues 7560 15.6 inch chassis it is a significant size difference so for hybrid work the smaller size is likely a tempting factor!

Dell have also added a 14 inch 5470 which looks similar to the XPS range but is exclusive to workstations so seem to be going the opposite way and adding more form factors.

Also of interest is that Dell have worked with intel to create their own thinner single pcb CAMM memory format rather than using 2 or 4x SO-DIMM. I believe this gives them more space for cooling and may smaller chassis in futur.main downside is upgrades mens removing existing Ram, and to get ECC Ram you have to use an inteposer and are limited to 64GB ECC. Dell are hoping CAMM will become the new standard but time will tell.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/693366/dell-defends-its-controversial-new-laptop-memory.html/amp