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Dell Launches Linux-Loaded Precision 3540 Laptop Starting At ~$700 USD
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Originally posted by nils_ View Post
What annoys me is that I can't just buy the whole line-up without any OS pre-installed. Any serious user will wipe the pre-installed OS anyways.
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Originally posted by shmerl View PostGood, they should start selling it with Linux for all their models. Cheaper than with Windows naturally.
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Originally posted by wizard69 View PostInteresting but with the RAM and HD specs it looks like they are taking marketing cues from Apple! That is post up a nice price for a machine no one would buy today and then charge and arm and a leg for “upgrades”. Maybe they aren’t as bad as Apple but I’m no more likely to deal with them due to sleazy marketing practices.
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Originally posted by moriel5 View Post
These are Latitudes, not Precisions.
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Originally posted by bobbie424242 View PostCome on people !
It is the Precision line, the flagship workstation line of laptops from Dell.
These laptops are designed to be sturdy, modular, repairable and come with 3 year on-site warranty by default (in EU).
It is not your el cheapo Chromebook, netbook nor consumer hardware.
To lower the price you can order with with just a HDD and add a SSD yourself.
You can as well order it with the lowest RAM as possible and add RAM.
So stop comparing apples to oranges. If you really want to compare, compare them to Lenovo Thinpad P models and HP ZBook.
And Vostros and Latitudes are pretty much as repairable as Precisions, even Inspirons are as repairable as Precisions.
As for modularity, the most you lose out would be an M.2 slot for storage. But modularity is (and I hate this) seems to be going away with Dell's (as well as other companies). XPSs arrive with soldered RAM, almost all Dell laptops are doing away with hot-swappable batteries, you require an insane amount of screws just to replace, anything (my Lenovo IdeaPad, as much as I may bash it for being more expensive, and lower quality, than comparable Dell Vostro and Inspiron 3000s, only requires 2 screws to access the RAM, HDD, and WiFi M.2 slot, and the last Vostro and Inspiron models to feature a hot-swappable battery were the last models before the 8th gen Intel Core CPUs (the Vostro 3578 is an exception).
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Originally posted by ecly View Post
The CPU alone is worth $297.00, so $450 seems a bit low for the while laptop : https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us...-4-10-ghz.html
With an i5, I'd value it at 600$ at most.
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Come on people !
It is the Precision line, the flagship workstation line of laptops from Dell.
These laptops are designed to be sturdy, modular, repairable and come with 3 year on-site warranty by default (in EU).
It is not your el cheapo Chromebook, netbook nor consumer hardware.
To lower the price you can order with with just a HDD and add a SSD yourself.
You can as well order it with the lowest RAM as possible and add RAM.
So stop comparing apples to oranges. If you really want to compare, compare them to Lenovo Thinpad P models and HP ZBook.Last edited by bobbie424242; 02 May 2019, 08:09 AM.
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Originally posted by moriel5 View PostLooking at the bare value only, I'd value this laptop at 450$ at most, definitely not 700$.
You can get Dell Vostros for cheaper, and with pretty much the same specs (no dedicated touchpad buttons, for example).
As for GPU compatibility, I'd probably say that there are two motherboard models, one for NVidia and one for AMD (this is based upon leaked laptop motherboard schematics for different models of different companies that I had seen in the past).
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