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[Skylarking]

Not a gaming desktop, but a work laptop set up for intense 3D cad work and finite element and other numerical modelling, both 2D and 3D. As a side trick it also rips it up with gaming too . The entire lot is a tax deduction through my company. Bonus! I purchased it in August 2021 when prices were sky high. I needed a decent setup so was sort of stuck between a rock and hard place.

Laptop: Dell 7760 Precision 17" mobile workstation (~$10k)

• Xeon W-11955M (24MB Cache, 8 Cores, 2.60GHz - 5.00GHz, 45W)
• 128 GB 3200MHz ECC
• RTX A5000 16GB GDDR6
• 2 x 500 GB SSD
• 17.3" IPS UHD, 3840 x 2160, 120Hz screen

Peripherals:

• Dell thunderbolt dock
• 3 x 27" HP EliteDisplay E273Q monitors, 2560 x 1440, 60Hz
• JBL Professional studio monitor speakers

Dell precision laptops are a nice bit of kit but it’s not difficult to spend real crazy money on them so they aren’t for casual users

Sad that Dell has gone with proprietary memory on their new stuff. I hate proprietary though last I read they were uncharacteristically going to open up the spec and make it a standard

Pity the industry hasn’t standardised on ECC memory for all as everyone’s data, including grannies pictures and video is precious and deserve such a memory subsystem.

 

[MasterOfReality]

Dell precision laptops are a nice bit of kit but it’s not difficult to spend real crazy money on them so they aren’t for casual users

Sad that Dell has gone with proprietary memory on their new stuff. I hate proprietary though last I read they were uncharacteristically going to open up the spec and make it a standard

Pity the industry hasn’t standardised on ECC memory for all as everyone’s data, including grannies pictures and video is precious and deserve such a memory subsystem.

Yeh at the time HP wouldn’t let me customise the ZBook and Lenovo didn’t have an arrival date for their 17” workstations. I previously had a specced up Lenovo X1 Extreme which was pretty good.

The web price for my Precison was well over $14k. I gave Dell a ring and set up a business account and got an instant 40% discount. Mental.