Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

Back in the office. Docks still haven't shipped. Dell has order delivery estimate at August 28.

I get the long delay for a new system build but I don't understand it for a dock unless they are having supply issues. We got out TB18DC docks immediately (weeks before the 7530's arrived even though they were ordered at the same time).

 

You're using HWINFO to determine power draw, right? Looking at the battery stats?

 

I'm getting the 7730 from outlet delivered tomorrow .... can someone explain the purpose of the middle click button on the touchpad?? how is it best used?

 

It is the same as the middle click button on the mouse; it causes fixed scroll mode or some apps have special use for it (i.e. opening tabs when you middle-click on a link in your browser).

 

Yep. That, and a nifty little utility that sits in the status bar, called BatteryBar.

 

@Ionising_Radiation
Hi !

In this post: http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...0-owners-thread.820539/page-257#post-10939770

you said the following:

"When the notebook is totally idle, I achieved an average power draw of ~6 W. With the display off, this dropped to 3-4 W"

When your notebook is idling, i suppose you can check current battery draw looking at "BatteryBar" status bar in HWINFO, right ?
But when the display is off (how did you do that ? What steps did you take ?)
what software did you use to record activities ?
Does it let you choose to create a .txt report file right ?

 

Pro-tip: you can text-highlight what everyone says, click the '+ Quote' button, then click on the orange 'Insert Quotes...' button beneath the text bar to get quotes that are auto-linked and auto-italicised, thus saving you the trouble of your first four lines, like so:



To answer your question:
BatteryBar Pro is a separate, unrelated utility to HWiNFO. The actual website has been down for a few days now; this is an archive of the site. It gives me a small icon in the status bar, and a mouse-over pop-up, like so:


In HWiNFO, these are the stats I monitor:

These are in the Sensors window, near the bottom of the list of sensor readings. HWiNFO also has the functionality to log these readings, and this option is in the bottom right of the Sensors window:
This is how I got the data to generate the graphs and the Excel file in this post.

 

Oh, yes sorry my bad. You have already talked about that software, it was when you performed a battery change on your old 7530 unit.

before
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...0-owners-thread.820539/page-123#post-10808895
and after
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...0-owners-thread.820539/page-124#post-10809817
battery change

Thanks for your explanation and also for that tip !

 

A few more notes:

After allowing the notebook to sleep, and after re-awakening it, the power draw actually stays at around 10–15 W when the dGPU is active, and the power draw increases to ~30 W when inactive. This only occurs after waking from sleep, and restarting the notebook fixes this behaviour.

On Arch Linux with kernel 5.2.8 and in the console tty, I am getting phenomenal battery life: at full charge, acpi reports that I have over 13 hours of use left, and right now, I’m sitting at 54%, having used the laptop the entire day without having plugged it in. This is with PowerTOP fixes applied, and not much other power tweaks. I am aware the Arch wiki has extensive documentation regarding this, but I haven’t really read through all of that yet.

 

WD19DC docks are in. I made a separate thread for my impressions.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/wd19dc-dock-impressions.830138/