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Personally, I don't want laptops that look like glass. We've spent over $75K at Dell this year. We buy all our kiosks, laptops, monitors, docks, webcams, speak

Personally, I don't want laptops that look like glass. We've spent over $75K at Dell this year. We buy all our kiosks, laptops, monitors, docks, webcams, speakerphone equipment, servers, and more through them. And we love all of the gear, it's beautifully made, and it all just works (tm) together. But personally I long that they would give up on trying to push out hyper modern laptops or macbook clones and just push out robust business laptops that look like ThinkPad T/P-series. One of the reasons we don't buy Lenovo is because the quality of Dell's software, support, BIOS, recovery etc. is all lightyears ahead of Lenovo. For example, our business laptops don't ship with recovery partitions that can be wiped. We can open SupportAssist in the BIOS, connect to WiFi in the BIOS, and it will automatically download the latest factory image and re-install the OS from the cloud. The images don't come with any bloatware or ads baked-in and from there we can just deploy everything with InTune. Fantastic.

Underphil 4y ago
I have a work-issued Precision 7510 that is the antithesis to what you described. I'm with you on the 'laptops that look like glass' thing.
- aetherspawn 4y ago
  We use a few Precision 7560 and they are fantastic, although we do miss the second set of buttons above the trackpad and also the nib mouse that your model has. It’s a shame the Precision 3000 series shares nothing design-wise with the 7-series. The 7-series is quite frankly unaffordable for the general case. And the recent revisions are slowly losing their ruggedness. We would buy a 7-series chassis with an i5 and no GPU if it had a price point around $2200-ish.
cassianoleal 4y ago
> I don't want laptops that look like glass. As a MacBook user, neither do I. It looks like Dell took all the mistakes Apple made in recent years and turned them up to 11 in a single package. That keyboard will be a nightmare to touchtype on. The arrow keys will require looking down to use every single time. The trackpad without clear borders will be a usability nightmare. Or perhaps they mean it spans the entire width of the laptop, which is probably much worse. Capacitive things have no place in a developer's computer.

Underphil 4y ago

I have a work-issued Precision 7510 that is the antithesis to what you described. I'm with you on the 'laptops that look like glass' thing.

aetherspawn 4y ago
We use a few Precision 7560 and they are fantastic, although we do miss the second set of buttons above the trackpad and also the nib mouse that your model has. It’s a shame the Precision 3000 series shares nothing design-wise with the 7-series. The 7-series is quite frankly unaffordable for the general case. And the recent revisions are slowly losing their ruggedness. We would buy a 7-series chassis with an i5 and no GPU if it had a price point around $2200-ish.

cassianoleal 4y ago

> I don't want laptops that look like glass. As a MacBook user, neither do I. It looks like Dell took all the mistakes Apple made in recent years and turned them up to 11 in a single package. That keyboard will be a nightmare to touchtype on. The arrow keys will require looking down to use every single time. The trackpad without clear borders will be a usability nightmare. Or perhaps they mean it spans the entire width of the laptop, which is probably much worse. Capacitive things have no place in a developer's computer.