I am the owner of one of these laptop since the end of 2019. They are really bad.
They tend to freeze while using Webex for example, for sure they do not manage well the GPU request for such videoconference systems,
But most of all they are small ovens. Their temperature, despite what you say in the review, reach unmanageable levels with the hands became very hot. UNUSABLE without an external keyboard.
Again, the fan noise is terrible.
DO NOT BUY this product.

Dell Precision 5530 has RAM compatibility issue. Not all RAM modules as described in DELL specification Guide are compatible for this laptop.

Boot fail after RAM Upgrade. No solution from the customer service.

I wanted so badly to love this laptop but CABC..... WHY?

Just want to mention. Above all the glorious specifications, they have very good warranty on-site service:-D. In 9 months, I have already 3rd motherboard replacing due to hardware faults. First was gpu, 2nd was realtek audio, tomorrow they are going to fix usb3 charging (very much discussed on dell forum) with tb16 docking station (which is also vary bad and noisy). I never saw blue screen in last 10 years but with 5530 it is very common. Realtek audio drivers are so buggy that i have to be avare to not let win 10 to download update, there is only one that works from far past. Also really stupid and annoing Maxx audio. I cannot upgrade quadro driver from dell support anymore via product ID because its telling me it is not compatiple with my ID. Should I continue? I am about to give it back now! Before that, i had two hp worksattions without any problem, never. They were just noisy and heavy. Than I was recommended by colleages to go for dell. Never again. Hp are heavier/noisier but reliable. No dell. Not anymore!

My company purchased this laptop as a replacement for my old workhorse - a Dell Latitude e6430. Knowing about the older Dell Precision M-series I was excited to receive this latest Precision offering.

I've never been as disappointed with a computer as I am with this laptop. When it's running it works great. It boots up fast and performs great. As long as I never leave my desk.

The problems? Docking & undocking is a hit or miss proposition. There are few things worse than preparing for a meeting, undocking, and then getting to the meeting, only to find you have no network until the laptop is rebooted. Or else returning from a meeting and then spending 5 minutes trying to get the thing to dock. Efforts to then try rebooting it often result in it "locking up", where I finally "force" it to reboot (if it doesn't first bluescreen) - where it then performs flawlessly for the rest of the day (unless I have another meeting - where it might work fine). Very frustrating.

Another annoyance is the WIFI connection. I've resigned myself to always manually connecting the machine to my home WIFI. Attempts to have the laptop automatically connect will more often than not result in it NOT connecting, and then "blue-screening" when "trouble-shooting" the connection issue. Of course, when the machine finally reboots, it runs flawlessly (sorry about all the apps you had running and the files you had open, and the emails you were writing).

Otherwise, it would be nice if Dell had simply covered the basics - like 1 or 2 LED's that provide at least a smidgen of information about the status of the machine: is the hard-drive active? is it asleep, is it running - or maybe hibernating? it's hard to know without.a.single.power.indicator. Oh, there is a light that lets you know it's charging - but that is it.

And speaking of charging, if you're getting ready to head out, make sure you unplug it BEFORE putting it to sleep. Unplugging it after putting it to sleep, will wake it up! Which of course is annoying when you're rushing to leave and would like to put the laptop in its case while it's not running.

FYI: I'm running Windows 10 Pro

Please add the bios version to your test.
Some of the negative points may be fixed with a newer version (currently 1.7.0)...

is this a good machine for the architects who indulge in lots of heavy 3D modelling and rendering works using revit, vray , 3Dsmax, maya?

where's the LATENCY MON results? Woundn't this be a must test for a workstation? Could anyone else post it?

Quote from: M2018 on September 03, 2018, 22:57:32
Just a pure idiot will buy this - too noisy, no numpad and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overpriced!!!!!!!

Actually, some of us don't want the keypads. To me the lack of the num keypad in this laptop is a bonus. 

Compared to the XPS 15 2018 with i5-8300H, the battery life for load vs wifi v1.3 is about the same vs less than half respectively.  Assuming this is a single threaded task, how do we explain this discrepancy?

Thanks for this test. Regarding Power limit throttling, can you please provide power settings: PL1, PL2 duration for "turbo boost power max"?

No way to order with ECC RAM? What's up with that, Dell?  :(

There is a mistake in the article.  The weight is not 1.78kg.  It is the model with the 56Wh battery that weighs 1.78kg.

The review model has a 97Wh battery, so this machine has a weight of around 2 kg.  Could you update the article with the actual weight of the review unit?

Quote from: William Thompson on September 04, 2018, 06:13:13
I don't really understand why Adobe RGB in 4K display is so bad. I remember Precision 5510/XPS 15 9550/9560 have very good result

It's probably because they forgot to disable the default display calibration in the intel graphics control panel. The calibration restricts the colour space to sRGB. I had my XPS 15 9570 with 4k panel show nearly identical results until i disabled the option. After that, DisplayCAL + Xrite i1 Display pro showed 100% Adobe RGB coverage. This was my experience with the 9570 at least. Lets see if they retest it with the option disabled.

For checking the display colour space coverage, I have a question. Did you turn off the "Accurate color" (or whatever it's called) option in the intel graphics control panel? Please retest the display with this option DISABLED. I believe this option purposely restricts the colour space to cover just sRGB so that colours look "normal". With my Dell XPS 9570, which I believe has the same exact panel, my Adobe RGB coverage was around the same UNTIL i disabled that option. Running DisplayCAL with the color management option disabled in the intel graphics control panel gave me a score of 100% Adobe RGB coverage.

Please retest the display characteristics, if you did not already disable the option I have stated.