Precision 7560 & 7760 Owners' Thread

Isn't it? This is why my company moved away from HP a decade ago. I've lived on military bases for a long time now and I used to see nothing but HP, but now I see nothing but Dell. I'm really not sure who is keeping HP in business on the pro-sumer side.

 

I might sell my 7560 and get that, then, heh. I've always liked the ThinkPad all-black, very businesslike aesthetic. The new Precisions look like MacBooks from the outside.

 

Question, am trying to do a secure erase on a 980 but my 7760 will not boot from the USB stick Samsung Magician created. The boot sequence in the BIOS doesn't even see it. I disabled Secure Boot. Any idea why I can't boot from it, or is thee some secret setting I need to enable for it to boot from it?

EDIT: I'm pretty sure I figured this out - 7760s do not support Legacy boot any longer so boot options like Samsung Magician or any Linux-based boot will never work. This is not good.

 

If you press F12 at boot, does it show on the boot menu?
(I've found that the F2 BIOS setup "boot order" thing isn't very good at discovering new UEFI boot sources.)

If it doesn't show there, no idea... Maybe just move the drive to another system to erase it?

 

Same with schools... everything is Dell now. If Dell does something really well, it's being cheap. Sometimes this is a bad thing, but with the Precisions, they have found an acceptable balance between cheap and bad. No way I'm paying $6000 for an HP or a Lenovo workstation when I can get an equivalent Dell for $4000. And the Dell is lighter and thinner, though at the expense of ease of serviceability (still not bad though)

 

Nope. Can't get it to show up at all. It's a legacy boot thing.

 

My Crucial Ballistix RAM is working perfectly fine

 

Agreed, except the XPS line is pretty good. Not as good as Precision, but pretty good.

 

You got lucky

 

Doesn't Lenovo blacklist aftermarket RAM upgrades? Or did I get it mixed up?
That laptop looks more ideal (for me) than the 7760, but only if it had a 17 inch screen and smaller bezels. The T15g size is in between the 7560 and 7760, leaving some screen space left to be desired.
Also, the GPU is listed as a Max-Q so it's likely in the 80-90W range which falls short of the 7760's 115-140W GPU power. In a GPU only workload, the 7760 is usually around 120-125W, so the 3070 in the P15g would be around 25% slower than the A4000 in the 7760. The extra VRAM of the 3080 would be nice, but I would still be at a loss of around 15-20% raw GPU power.
I'm comparing the P15g to the 7760 since the size difference isn't huge, and I'm comfortable with carrying both.