have you ever gone to a computer website cranked every dial in the configurator
until you've got the most over-the-top expensive machine possible and then
imagine what it'd be like to actually have it well today we don't have to
imagine oh she's a heavy boy
coming in at just under 13
000 oh this absolute mother of a machine has
enough compute to make you go whoa
enough GPU to make you go damn and
enough RAM to make you go why would anybody need that much RAM in a laptop
introducing the dell precision 7750
at roughly double the thickness of the xps 15 and nearly three and a half
kilograms well there's no way to sugarcoat it she's a chunker compared to
the xps we do get way more ports
including Ethernet a total of four display outputs and a smart card reader
for verifying user credentials but to put it lightly this is not the kind of
machine that you want to carry around in your backpack all day unless
this is your backpack now dell has more reasonable machines in the precision
lineup that are basically the xps 15 or
17 but with a zeon and a quadro as for
the 7750 here it's a completely different beast
if the 240 watt power brick didn't tip you off
we have got some serious processing on the inside
for CPU our unit is equipped with a xeon
w10885
m an 8 core processor that can turbo up to 5.3 gigahertz but has difficulty
actually sustaining speeds like that on mortal laptops hopefully with the 7750s
large and heavy cooler we'll be seeing it get well at least close
graphics are handled by NVIDIA quadro rtx 5000 which has the same tu-104 chip
as the rtx 2080 gaming graphics card
except with 128 more shaders enabled and
a cool 16 gigs of video memory which
means this is not only a beast workstation it could actually be faster
in games than the fastest gaming laptop that we have in the studio so then how
does it game i mean i guess we better play some games yeah
yeah all right let's fire up shadow of the tomb raider one of our favorite benchmarks we're gonna run it on
basically all maxed 4k except motion blur because motion blur
is bad and if you use it you should feel bad well it's not a smooth 60 FPS we're
actually running around 40 but i am screen recording at the moment and
remember that this is running at 4k absolutely cranked absolutely maxed
screen space contact shadows do not go to high even in the most extreme
preset doesn't even hurt performance that much interesting
whoa don't hit a rock sheet of rock as good
an experienced as that was though when we tested it against the alienware area
51m the fastest gaming laptop we have
here well the area 51m did win which isn't really
surprising given that it's got a desktop processor game optimized drivers and
also happens to be water cooled now but i was still hoping for the precision to
somehow eco to win and maybe it would have if dell had pulled the same stunt
as ASUS with their studio book one the only laptop with a quadro rtx
6000 inside it although they did have to pull off some pretty funky ventilation
tricks in order to make that work all right so it's not quite the fastest
but just because you're not the fastest doesn't mean you're terrible second
fastest ain't half bad and having that kind of grunt makes a huge difference in
applications that are able to take advantage of it so let's give it a go in
mark bench a video encoding benchmark
that was created by one of our video editors mark that's basically an
identical timeline in both adobe premiere pro and apple final cut pro the
goal here is twofold to show how much GPU can help with video encoding and to
tease the apple fanboys about how badly their precious final cut gets destroyed
well i hope while these are running i want to talk about some of the comments
you guys left on our review of the dell xps 15. some of you said that we went
pretty light on dell compared to apple for the mediocre thermals and power
delivery in the xps 15 and there is a reason for this
dell is not marketing the xps 15 as the
be all and end-all for professionals
i mean sure with a machine like this you can edit
videos or work on cad models but if you're doing it professionally
dell is going to advise you to go with their business focused and more
expensive precision lineup so we're definitely going to hold it to a
different standard which means hopefully you're keeping your thermals under
control here buddy there it is boys
and what are we at on the macbook so it is twice
as fast as our kitted out macbook pro
which i guess is sort of an indication you don't really need a computer like
this to edit videos maybe a lower spec version with less RAM because the thing
that makes this machine particularly special compared to other laptops
is the crazy 128
gigabytes of ddr4 memory so
to answer our earlier question why would anybody need that much RAM in a laptop
simon he's an engineering student who reached out to us the other day because his flow
simulation gosh darn it just wouldn't run on his
personal machine due to you guessed it a lack of system memory
let's see how it does on this we'll let the mat keep chugging away yeah
okay this is showing just how much you can get done on this computer
well you know the peasants keep on exporting oh ouch so
on simon's computer he without like the
big honeycomb thing on the front it took him an hour
and with the honeycomb thing it just crashed
on this computer right here how long do you think it took
with the honeycomb i don't know uh i'm going to say
20 i don't even know what kind of computer he has like 20 minutes half a second half a second half a second what
kind of machine is he running he machines like
i don't know he does only have four gigs of RAM so that's definitely a problem
ouch this used like over a hundred when creating the mesh can we like see
anything yeah just a second i want to see the simulation i'm turning it on
right now we're living in the simulation there
that's what we did oh that's pretty cool you can cut it
right here boom
and so how long did it take to run the whole thing with the mesh
uh with the mesh it took about 50
minutes and how long did his machine take to run
it with the mesh it didn't it it just couldn't even mesh
it huh so this shows like meters per second like air velocity
through uh through a thing what's the purpose of the honeycomb mesh there's
probably a fan right here and when you have the fan it would create a whole
bunch of turbulence like everything would be all
flippity-floppity-ing so we go through this mesh so it's all kind of like
going through the funny thing though is that while during our gaming testing our
CPU got as high as 100 degrees and actually thermal throttled
while running a simulation like this and using all 128 gigs of our memory it
turned out that CPU thermals weren't a problem at all our CPU was able to
maintain 4.3 gigahertz across all eight cores while running at about 75 degrees
celsius and consuming a consistent 60 watts of power with spikes up to 100
watts and it did it just fine in a laptop now
we're still a little disappointed that a combined load that actually hits both
CPU and GPU completely can overwhelm the cooling solution
but at least in situations like this one it holds its own nicely
as for the screen well
it's fine it's 16x9 when the rest of the precision
lineup has switched over to 16x10 there's no touch option even and it
lacks the succulent visuals of the xps
lineup but it isn't all bad i mean dell could
have made the panel more vivid but the anti-reflective coating is awesome if
you're working under fluorescent lights and the 4k 17 inch panel is big enough
to make this really feel like a workstation replacement
for inputs oh this is a bit of a contentious area the new dell precision
lineup is the first that they've done to drop the pointing stick aka the nipple
mouse and then increase the trackpad size and i'd wait sorry this is
contentious in my opinion the only thing that should
be contentious about this is that they didn't go far enough i mean
this is a usable sized track pad
but yeah you know i might actually be upset that they took away my nipple
mouse and didn't give me the track pad off the xps 15. look at the size of this
by comparison they should have just taken that it's
contentious but not for the reasons that i think you probably meant in the script
as for the keyboard it is unsurprisingly
excellent it's not quite as snappy as the one on the xps 15 but it's the kind
of keyboard that you could easily sit down at all day and write up reports on
how the radiographic testing shows the
contractors that they need to redo all the welding for free or
whatever report someone who uses this needs to write up like like how they
should be allowed to expense a new water bottle from ltteststore.com so they can
stay hydrated at work or whatever oh hey the macbook finished
it's good good for you budget
kids budget real men rip laptops apart with their
bare hands oh yeah
well that explains why it's so heavy
is this a single cnc piece bottom amanda they xps it oh damn they did they
did look at that it's beautiful
oh like sometimes they try to get it really smooth even on the inside just oh just
leave the milling marks on i love it oh my god
this thing has four m.2 slots
that is so cool there's i think one one terabyte and two
two terabytes this is a two terabyte unit
this is a really weird m.2 like hold
down mechanism oh i think i get it
there um oh shoot
oh shoot oh wow that magnet is so strong it grabs
the screw from there oh did they cheap out on us you hold them
out on us dell you hold them out there's an empty one
send it back i'm done i'm out no forget it i'm out
no i still want to play with it i'm back okay so the battery which is pretty
close to the maximum allowed on a commercial flight 95 watt hours is
expected to give you about eight hours of
screen time but if you do any real work
that's gonna quickly drop down to more like an hour now i've got a note in here
to mention why vapor chambers kick butt we have a video coming up about that you
want to make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it but basically what
makes the cooling possible on this puppy is these right here so it uses a
combination of vapor chambers and these large heat exchangers back here to get
rid of all that flipping heat from the GPU as well as the CPU what is this does
this have a cellular card in it oh it does yeah oh nice
wow it's got all the trimmings for the low low price of what 13 13 grand
now there are people that require this kind of power but the thing is most of
them will either use massive servers that are on site at their work or
compute clusters to actually crunch the crazy numbers
that doesn't mean though that this is completely without a use case the main
one i can think of is offshore oil and gas for example so in a scenario like
that the engineer might be flown in so carrying their server in their backpack
is a pretty nice quality of life improvement and while they're on site
they might be required to run complex flow simulations and of course an oil
and gas firm well under normal conditions anyway won't blink an eye at
a 13 000 laptop if it's going to help them pump 55 million dollars of oil a
day out of the ground or the sea or wherever it is they get oil from another
feasible use case is of course you know the usual suspects for desktop
replacements or as we like to call them semi-mobile workstations so you know a
work from home architectural engineer civil engineer researcher etc
so if you're one of those and trying to figure out what to spend the rest of
your 2020 budget on so that it doesn't get cut next year maybe consider this
instead of the macbook pro because you know it's actually for pros well
pros with like jacked arms anyway i'll give the macbook that it's a lot lighter
if you guys enjoyed this video and you want to check out another crazy laptop
maybe uh have a look at alex's ShortCircuit video on the uh yes that the
studio book pro it's crazy it's got an rtx 6000 like
what