Z series USED to look good. Dell definitely took the style crown. The whole company has really turned around. I'm still an HP guy at heart (although I can never forgive them for what they did to Palm) but Dell is still a solid recommendation. Dell support has always been excellent, it's just the quality (especially a decade ago) was severely lacking to the point the support could no longer justify it.
You can draw a direct coorelation between Michael Dell leaving the company, it tanking, then him coming back to effectively save it with products like the XPS13 and recent Latitude\Precision workstations undercutting equivalent HP's by hundreds of dollars.
But both companies suffer from still using embarrassingly low-res TN panels in business products. The Latitude 5290 and EliteBook 840 are great examples of a fantastic notebook ruined with a TN panel. Even Lenovo doesn't pull that kind of shit, and Lenovo is the epitome of garbage.
Utterly awful TN panels have a business benefit - you don't need to waste time with privacy filters, because the viewing angles are terrible out of the box :D
Right? I really like the fact even the reasonably sized towers are using slim optical drives - it's still handy, but that takes up way less space. And airflow... all that area on the front for intake...
I know what you're saying - maybe it's that I'm getting old, but when I look at the look of many modern motherboards, cases, and even some RAM - they remind me of cheap plastic toys targeted at 6-year olds.
I wonder when Dell is going to release a new Precision Mobile line. the 7720 is at 40% off and still at whopping $4400 could go up to 6 to 7 grand with options. Of course that is 64G of ECC ram and Quatro 5000 with 16G of ram and raid storage.
Yes I miss that one - by falsely assuming the highest # is the latest and greatest - but that the 3530 has six core include mobile Xeon and even high options like external GPU though TB3 like Quadro 6000.
Still surprise it has single TB3 port - when Apple ships with 4
4 ports would make sense on a processor with 28 or 44 PCIe lanes, like the HEDT stuff. Otherwise, its all going to be limited by a PCIe-x4-esque DMI link between southbridge and the processor. Therefore to get actual full performance on majority (if not all?) of current mobile CPUs, there's no reason to have more than 1-2 ports. Anything over that (like the overkill in macbook) is going to reduce total available bandwidth to the other ports.
Hi HStewart the new mobile options including the 7530 and 7730 came out last month, 4 and 6 core i5,i7,i9 and xeon options and uprated graphics just be aware of you go for Quadro P3200 or above then it is m.2 NVme SSDs only, They ditched the docking port to make them a little smaller and lighter but now there is a dual thunderbolt dock that powers the system. Can even go up to 128GB once 32GB dimms are available.
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grahad - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
TFW Dell makes better looking cases than the RGB crazy case manufacturers atm.colinstu - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
THIS.fazalmajid - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
Not as nice as the BMW-designed HP Z series workstations, though.grahad - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
HP Z series are closer to the fugly RGB + TG + million angles cases than the elegant Dell ones here.Samus - Saturday, July 14, 2018 - link
Z series USED to look good. Dell definitely took the style crown. The whole company has really turned around. I'm still an HP guy at heart (although I can never forgive them for what they did to Palm) but Dell is still a solid recommendation. Dell support has always been excellent, it's just the quality (especially a decade ago) was severely lacking to the point the support could no longer justify it.You can draw a direct coorelation between Michael Dell leaving the company, it tanking, then him coming back to effectively save it with products like the XPS13 and recent Latitude\Precision workstations undercutting equivalent HP's by hundreds of dollars.
But both companies suffer from still using embarrassingly low-res TN panels in business products. The Latitude 5290 and EliteBook 840 are great examples of a fantastic notebook ruined with a TN panel. Even Lenovo doesn't pull that kind of shit, and Lenovo is the epitome of garbage.
piroroadkill - Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - link
Utterly awful TN panels have a business benefit - you don't need to waste time with privacy filters, because the viewing angles are terrible out of the box :Dpiroroadkill - Friday, July 13, 2018 - link
Right? I really like the fact even the reasonably sized towers are using slim optical drives - it's still handy, but that takes up way less space.And airflow... all that area on the front for intake...
twtech - Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - link
I know what you're saying - maybe it's that I'm getting old, but when I look at the look of many modern motherboards, cases, and even some RAM - they remind me of cheap plastic toys targeted at 6-year olds.DigitalFreak - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
What's with the weird paint job in the first pic?zeusk - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
That's not a paint job, that's a projection of some random marketing BS powerpoint.jinbota - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
I think you meant the P1000 in the statement about the Precision 3430 GPU selections...."NVIDIA Quadro cards in the P400, P620, and P100."
HStewart - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
I wonder when Dell is going to release a new Precision Mobile line. the 7720 is at 40% off and still at whopping $4400 could go up to 6 to 7 grand with options. Of course that is 64G of ECC ram and Quatro 5000 with 16G of ram and raid storage.flgt - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
I love my 3000 series work laptop. They just released a 3530 update to the 3520 I have.HStewart - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
Yes I miss that one - by falsely assuming the highest # is the latest and greatest - but that the 3530 has six core include mobile Xeon and even high options like external GPU though TB3 like Quadro 6000.Still surprise it has single TB3 port - when Apple ships with 4
Alsw - Saturday, July 14, 2018 - link
Just to be clear as I missed your second post the Precision 7530 and 7730 have dual thunderbolt. 5530 and 3530 have just one stilltimecop1818 - Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - link
4 ports would make sense on a processor with 28 or 44 PCIe lanes, like the HEDT stuff. Otherwise, its all going to be limited by a PCIe-x4-esque DMI link between southbridge and the processor. Therefore to get actual full performance on majority (if not all?) of current mobile CPUs, there's no reason to have more than 1-2 ports. Anything over that (like the overkill in macbook) is going to reduce total available bandwidth to the other ports.Alsw - Saturday, July 14, 2018 - link
Hi HStewart the new mobile options including the 7530 and 7730 came out last month, 4 and 6 core i5,i7,i9 and xeon options and uprated graphics just be aware of you go for Quadro P3200 or above then it is m.2 NVme SSDs only, They ditched the docking port to make them a little smaller and lighter but now there is a dual thunderbolt dock that powers the system. Can even go up to 128GB once 32GB dimms are available.