Getting a laptop refresh and curious what the popular opinion is here between the brands.
Going from an HP ZBook 15 G4
i7-7820HQ
Nvidia Quadro M1200
16GB RAM
Samsung NVMe 500gig
Pretty decent docking station, lightning, USB-C etc.
Going over to:
Dell Precision 7670
(specs TBD).
I don’t really like change so I was resisting the update but its happening soon. The HP has been good, any issues I ran into were more due to the enterprise security clients they have to use IMO. I’m going to miss ole-faithful.
What has been the lvl1 experiences with these fleet sector builds? One coworker is already peeved we are leaving HP to Dell, that Dell had fallen off long ago.
Hey, currently work in IT support(Sys admin), in a primarily dell shop.
Precision’s, can be hit and miss based my experience and I’d recommend getting the extended warranty in case you end up with a lemon. Also if you plan on getting a thunderbolt dock I’d check this dell compatibility list out. Beyond that we don’t have a ton of issues with Dell Latitude’s and Optiplex models which is what we deploy the most of.
Lately we’ve been mixing in Lenovo’s ThinkPad P16v(AMD) for some of our engineers and they like them with no issues. But we have a very small sample size(like 50ish compared to 1000’s of dells) and not a long history with them yet.
Overall you should see a good performance bump and probably better build quality. Biggest problem I see with the precision’s are usually over heating or just random component failures. Also make sure to run dell command/support assist fairly regularly to avoid any weird windows/software bugs. Swears 80% of my work as a tier 1 was just updating stuff lol
HDD? Like my work can’t even generate Dell eQoute’s with those anymore at my work lol, though my employer is probably more ahead of the curve as our minimum specs now are i7, 32 GB RAM, and 500GB NVMe/SSD across the board. Main reason we quote that is a lot of our customers tend to run them well past warranty(6+ years on average) and it can be a real pain when customers start putting in tickets constantly about slow systems when not much can be done about them.
This is a slightly older model though so wondering if your IT repurposed it or bought used? Should be able to tell by the remaining warranty with the Dell Service tag. I’d honestly complain about the HDD. That’s just asking for bad user experience and if budget is a problem I’d be shocked if they couldn’t repurpose your old NVMe.
I don’t see a problem with windows 10. EOL at my workplace is August for about 95% of our customers base. Could be software or backend management stuff doesn’t support it yet.