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Re:Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series rei... by gshulegaard on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:24PM (#30644802)
Hmmm, I have a 5540 currently and don't have the problems you had (and I actually replaced the factory Ubuntu with PopOS after a year or two).

Although battery life is not great, but I am not sure that is as much a hardware issue as it is a software one. Although I am waiting on baited breath for AMD based hardware.

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Re:Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series rei... by krzyk on Friday March 11, 2022 @03:13PM (#30645422)
I have 5560 and I don't have such issues also.

I don't like the touchpad because it is too big and lacks separate physical buttons.

And I don't like that TB ports don't work with WD19TB docking station (from Dell!).

The wifi range is poor and it is heavy when comparing to ThinkPad.

But besides those issue. I like it.

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