Talk:Dell Precision

Sources

Google search for Dell Precision press releases That'll do (to some degree) as a Primary Source. --Goldfndr (talk) 16:16, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Can we also add display resolution sizes i.e 1600x900, 1920x1200 etc? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.61.95 (talk) 23:57, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

This "article" is content-free as far as I can see and is just a list of one company's products. Deletion would be a vast improvement. Huw Powell (talk) 19:49, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

I disagree; this should NOT be deleted. There is a lot of good technical information here, gathered in one place, that would otherwise take a good while to locate. The option should be left open in the future for someone to add more "article-like" prose if they want. By your same argument, should we just delete the Xeon page altogether, since it's "just a list of one company's products"? I think not. Nks87 (talk) 21:08, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

I agree that this page is useful and should NOT be deleted. I don't know any other place on the web that lists all the Dell Precision laptop models in one place, along with the summary spec of each model. Lifepark (talk) 21:59, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Current Dell Precision desktop models

This section seems out of date. Their website lists: T1700, M3800, 5810, 7810, and 7910. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 05:51, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Current Dell Precision laptop models

Most of the "Current Dell Precision laptop models" are now (10 January 2017) discontinued, and should probably be moved to the section named "Discontinued Dell Precision laptop models" appearing towards the bottom. However, I think maintaining 2 separate sections named "current" and "discontinued" is not a good idea, because every model eventually becomes discontinued and causes a high maintenance overhead for this page. I propose that we merge the two sections into one, but add a new column called "Discontinued" next to the "Released" column. This column can have 3 states: (blank) to indicate a current model, (discontinued date) if the discontinued date is known, or just (discontinued) if the discontinued date is unknown. When a model is discontinued, we just need to update a single cell. When new models are introduced, we only need to add new rows, instead of moving stuff around between two tables. I will volunteer to do this if no one objects, because I find this page incredibly useful, and there are about 10-12 current Precision laptop models which don't appear on this page. (talk) 22:13, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Update: I cleaned up the Precision laptop tables, but not exactly as I described above. First I combined the two tables (current and discontinued), then I split the table into 4 subsections: "C Series", "D Series", "E Series", "XPS Series". (I'm not sure if the "XPS Series" is the right term for it, but the M3800 didn't seem to belong anywhere.) I then added another subsection called "3000, 5000, 7000 Series" and added the current lines of Precision laptops (M3510, M3520, M5510, M5520, M7510, M7520, M7710, M7720). I did not add a "discontinued date" column, as I had proposed in the previous paragraph. Because after splitting the entries across multiple subsections ("C Series", "D Series" etc), it seemed easier to determine whether a particular model was discontinued or not. Lifepark (talk) 00:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Article tune-up

• Since the article is named "Dell Precision", do we need to repeat "Dell Precision" in each of the top-level headings?
• We make the distinction between "laptop" and "desktop", but then we list "rack-mounted" as a kind of "desktop".

Any objections to me fixing these?
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Adding the xx40 models to the table

Since Wikipedia's Visual Editor is the laggiest and worst editor I ever used, can anyone add the 2019/Precision MWS xx40 models to the table? --Wasmachineman NL (talk) 14:51, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Table inconsistencies

Why do different model types have different columns? For example [Dual processor, desktop form factor] and [Dual processor, tower form factor] have totally different columns despite some overlap in models. I added the 210 but had to format the data differently for the desktop vs tower case as it was available both ways. I suggest the less detailed ones be changed to match the others and the data added where possible. Either that or remove the distinction where it doesn't make a difference. Kathrex (talk) 05:46, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

CAM

The beginning of the section on the mobile workstations begins by stating that Dell introduced the Precision 5000 and 7000 series mobile workstations in 2013. It then goes on to say that the 7000 series introduced the Compression Attached Memory Module. It does not mention that the CAM was introduced in 2022, 9 years later. There is no other way to read the article other than that the CAM was introduced in 2013 with the 7000 series, which is incorrect. At the very least the paragraph should be edited so that it is clear that the CAM was introduced in 2022. Even so, that will leave the passage rather awkward, as it comes out of nowhere. It needs a transition. Perhaps other notable technologies or innovations (if any) introduced on or invented for the precision mobile workstations could be discussed here, or it could be removed altogether and instead the table below that lists the memory capacity of each system could be clarified to indicate the type of memory modules that are used, for example "128GB ECC CAM" or "64GB DDR4 non ECC 2x32GB SODIMM" 98.244.38.14 (talk) 20:59, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Statement of opinion under entries for 5510 and 5520

The table entries for the 5510 and 5520 mobile workstations state "reduced usability due to shallow keyboard and narrowed size of enter/return key". This seems like an opinion rather than a fact. Unless this was a very significant problem that was widely acknowledged I am skeptical that it should be included.(problems that might make sense in a Wikipedia article for example are the Samsung Note battery recall, Apples keyboard issues that were publicly acknowledged as a mistake by the company, or the PC Junior keyboard that was so bad that IBM admitted that it was a mistake and sent every user a replacement keyboard. Even if it is decided that this information is appropriate, it does not belong in a table of system specifications and it should state who exactly has made the assertion that there was a problem with the keyboard (for example, that some, or many users or perhaps reviewers complained about this problem and it should provide references backing up those assertions. 98.244.38.14 (talk) 21:13, 23 July 2024 (UTC)