A clarification needs to be made about this laptop, even though it tells you 10 cores it only has 2 power cores and 8 effeciency cores, i am assuming it was capped at 2 power cores for the longer battery life but its not a fast computer like the older computer used to be, that should be clarified in the specs sheet which companies do not do in general, this is not a woot thing this is an industry thing, hopefully anyone buying is aware of this fact.
What kills it for me is the Intel graphics. Even though most games I play are primarily single-threaded and would likely be okay with 2 power cores, they require AMD or NVIDIA graphics. It might be okay for low-end gaming and general usage (Netflix, YouTube, web surfing, office apps, maybe some light video editing), but you can probably count out a lot of high-end games.
If your main operating system is that of windows, that kinda sucks if its in linux you maybe able to pkay it thanks to proton and vulkan.
Wild sentence to read. The dream is finally true.
Always funny when someone mentions it now.
The ram in this laptop is worth nearly as much as the laptop
LPDDR5 means soldered right? which puts a damper on my thoughts of buying just to swap the ram intk my other laptop and then resell this. ih well. maybe another laotop will surface. for that means.
I’ve got one for work and it’s fine.
Do NOT try and run multiple 4k monitors without a good Thunderbolt 4 dock. 1 4k and a 2k is fine. With 2 4ks you will have massive throttling.
Do NOT run this without a 65 watt charger and I strongly recommend a 90 watt.
Without enough power it will take a bit to fire up and get processor usage down.
Touchscreen is great. The touchpad is so-so.
Only 1 USB port.
Must run a 90 watt brick to use a usb-c hub.
All of that being said, while it is no longer my daily driver, I take it camping to race tracks and on business trips and it’s very durable and I love the finish and it works great when traveling.
Have never had any luck w/ Dell refurbs: my Dells I’ve purchased new (including my current laptop) have all led long, useful lives, but the two times I’ve risked their refurbs they both bricked right after the extremely limited warranty ran out. Definitely allow for the added cost of insurance coverage (play protect?) if you go this route.