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The Dell Precision 5510 mobile workstation is part of Dell's latest efforts to combine the attractiveness of their premium notebooks with their business friendly capabilities, improved security and features. Dell gave me the opportunity to pound on their latest version of the Dell Precision line-up with the Dell Precision 5510 which is part of the company's efforts to bring more attractive mobile workstations to the commercial and enterprise. I spent the last three months using the Precision 5510 as my primary PC at home as a way to evaluate its worthiness as a true workstation. Dells says its 5510 is the lightest, smallest and thinnest 15" workstation. So how did it perform for me? Read on.
Mobile workstations are traditionally ugly, but not this one
Mobile workstations typically resemble 10-year-old notebooks -- they are usually huge, bulky and definitely not cool. In fact, there's no way that millennials want to actually use bulky and ugly workstations and certainly don't want to take them home where they work. However, consumer notebooks, even the heavy-duty ones with serious hardware specs, lack the durability, ISV (independent software vendor) workstation certifications, professional graphics, high RAM capacity and faster storage. Many consumer notebooks also lack the hardware durability testing and longevity standards that workstations are generally held to. I believe the Dell Precision 5510 is a beautiful system with all the right specs for creative professionals.
Impressive mid-range workstation specs
The Dell Precision 5510 specifications are extremely impressive and performance is vital with a workstation, not an after-thought. My 5510 sported a 4K, 15" InfinityEdge, nearly bezel-less display with touch inherited from the base XPS 15. Compared to an Apple MacBook 15" Retina, the 5510 delivers 3M more pixels or 59 percent higher resolution and Dell says they have the only minimum 100 percent Adobe RGB displays on a workstation.
The Precision 5510 also comes with CPUs ranging from a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 dual core/ four thread to a 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon quad core/octa thread. In terms of RAM, the Precision 5510 comes in 8GB configurations all the way up to a whopping 32 GB of DDR4-2133 MHz. 32 GB is vital when pounding out those massive 3D objects or 4 and 8K video editing.
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