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I wonder if this will have the coil whine issues the 13 has (had? I've got the last gen).
by IanCal 10y ago
I wonder if this will have the coil whine issues the 13 has (had? I've got the last gen).
- rcatajar 10y agoI have a precision 5510 (pro version of the XPS15) Skylake gen and it doesn't have the annoying coil whine of my previous XPS13 (Haswell gen)
- IanCal 10y agoVery useful to know, thanks. I'm somewhat torn about whether to keep or replace mine, apart from the whine it's a lovely little machine.
- socksy 10y agoFrom what I've read the coil whine is related to having the keyboard backlight on. Is that important enough to trade-off for the noise? I always turn off backlights when using a computer on battery anyway (it's not like I'll be looking at the keyboard much...).
- IanCal 10y agoI'd happily turn off the backlight, I'll try that. I've turned off the c6 processor states as apparently the switching there causes some of it. I can hear the changes as things visually change on screen, so scrolling and videos are quite bad.
- IanCal 10y agoAh no dice. I think it's inherent in all of these laptops but some are worse than others. This is a refurb, so I wonder if it was returned due to this... I'll talk to the support.