Dell Precision 7780
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Primary Camera: 2 MPix
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Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)
Reviews for the Dell Precision 7780
Source: Techradar
Portable workstations are an anachronism. By definition, true workstations aren't easy to carry around due to all the hardware and cooling inside them. Therefore, like so many of the best mobile workstations we've reviewed, the Dell Precision 7780 has one foot in the workstation camp and the other firmly planted in the mobile computing space. The problem is that because of the limitations of battery power and physical scale, this hardware can't be the best workstation or laptop, but it is a hybrid with notional nods at each side of that equation.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/02/2024
Rating: Total score: 60% price: 40% performance: 80% workmanship: 60%
Source: Creative Bloq
The Dell Precision 7780 is a high-performing and well-engineered laptop that has the power that modern-day creative professionals crave. Intel's i7 CPU and Nvidia's RTX 3500 GPU are the brains behind the machine and they won't let you down. I love the 17.3-inch display that has enough screen real-estate to handle applications such as Blender, Photoshop, and DaVinci Resolve. I would have liked to have seen a better placed trackpad and 4K display resolution but these are minor issues on an otherwise impressive laptop.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/10/2024
Rating: Total score: 90%
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NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU: A higher-end professional graphics card for use in laptops that sports 5,120 CUDA cores and 12 GB of ECC GDDR6 VRAM. Brought into existence in 2023, this graphics adapter leverages TSMC's 5 nm (4N) process and Nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture; hardware-wise, the RTX 3500 is a cut-down GeForce RTX 4070 (Desktop), as far as we can tell. Consequently, it makes use of the same AD104 chip and will have little difficulty running triple-A games at QHD 1440p. The Nvidia-recommended TGP range for the card is fairly wide at 60 W to 140 W leading to noticeable performance differences between different systems powered by what is supposed to be the same graphics card.
These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
i7-13850HX: Mobile CPU based on the Raptor Lake series that offers 20 cores (8 performance, 12 efficiency cores). Similar to the Desktop Core i7-13700K but with reduced clock speeds. Supports the full enterprise set of vPro management features.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
17.00":
This range for display formats was and is a rarity. It is larger than the general standard of 15 inches, but not yet in the range of large workstations. One usually has higher screen resolutions available, but portability suffers from that.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.3.05 kg:
A laptop with this weight is comparatively heavy and less designed for mobility than for use at the desk. Therefore, the devices tend to shine less with battery life than with a large screen and higher performance.
Dell: Dell is a U.S. manufacturer (based in Texas) of computer hardware founded in 1984 and is one of the largest international manufacturers in terms of both market share and notebook models. Its product line includes desktops, notebooks, storage systems, monitors, servers, printers, consumer electronics and peripherals. Dell offers laptops that are suitable for various applications, such as business laptops, gaming laptops, ultra portables and workstations. Dell's business laptops from the Latitude and Precision series are an option for professional users and businesses.
In 2023, Dell had an approximate 17% market share of global PC sales, ranking #3 after Lenovo and HP.
For gaming enthusiasts, Dell's Alienware brand is for gaming notebooks.
75%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
