Its too heavy to move around, and the power demands of the GPU arent compatible with being battery-powered.
Dell Precision 7780: 30-second review
Portable workstations are an anachronism.
With Thunderbolt 4, it’s relatively easy to add even more with a docking station.
For UK customers, a machine of the review hardware specification starts at 3,322.82.
It comes down to what you find more useful, screen resolution or image size.
This must to be mentioned because this product line has a major question mark above it at this time.
What’s fascinating about the Intel Core i9-13950HX is that it represents the swansong of the Core series.
Unfortunately, there are only eight performance cores in this chip and twice that in efficiency cores.
It appears to use a slightly knee-capped AD104 chip seen in the RTX 4070 part.
The RTX 3500 decimates the old A1000, being around three times the speed in some tests.
The first is the insanely heavy weight of this machine.
Using the GPU reduces the battery life to the point where achieving anything substantial in that timeframe is unrealistic.
If that wasn’t problematic enough, there’s the price.
It makes more economic sense to buy two and put one at home and the other in the office.
Should you buy a Dell Precision 7780?
Therefore, it offers plenty of ports, and you could add even more using a Thunderbolt docking station.
But like a desktop, it needs mains power.
It’s so heavy that it can’t safely be held with one hand.
But you could have 128GB of RAM and 8GB of storage and blow nearly 7,000 on one of these.
This is a terrific laptop, but outrageously priced.
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