The Secret XPS? - Dell Precision 5470

Alex has a goldilocks problem -- the XPS 15 is a bit too big and the XPS 13 is a bit too small, but maybe the Dell Precision 5470 is the perfect laptop to fill the gap...

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 The goldilocks laptop
0:20 Unboxing
1:04 Exterior impressions and IO
2:16 Interesting touchpad
2:54 Display impressions
3:46 Laptop spec impressions
5:28 Keyboard and trackpad impressions
7:02 Sponsor - Grammarly
7:52 But can it game?
9:41 Speaker impressions and comparison
10:50 It has Intel vPro
11:16 Webcam impressions
13:38 Cinebench benchmarking
15:09 Teardown
16:48 Overall thoughts and pricing
17:56 Outro

[BarryTGash]

I'm surprised the blurb on the dust jacket didn't just say: "Welcome to Dell. We'd like to talk to you about extended warranty."

[ashwinnarasimhan]

It should be noted that the Precision line is mobile workstations, not standard business laptops. The screens on workstations are going to be better since many workstations are used for graphics work or video editing where color accuracy is often important.

[alistairblaire]

Business laptops are great value on the second hand market. At $3300 I imagine that very few regular consumers will buy this but will check them out later when businesses upgrade to something newer.

[supersuede]

4:22 A terabyte of RAM. I'm gonna be able to pack more machine learning processes into this thing than my local server building.

[NeonVisual]

I wonder if it will follow the long standing XPS tradition of completely borked audio drivers after 6 months?

[richardguo]

I've always liked XPS and Precision laptops, however there is one thing that no one talks about, their battery degradation is bad. Take my XPS 15 9510 for example. I believe the battery is only rated for 300 charge cycle, when every modern MacBooks are rated for 1000 charge cycle.

[gregbits]

Alex is like, “Wow, the build, the performance, the display! This is one of the greatest laptops I’ve ever used…
2 out of 5 stars.”

[jo_naash]

I love how flex in laptop keyboards, laptops and keyboards in general is seen as undesirable, yet in the mechanical keyboard community, people are going to great lengths to add even more flex, like adding leaf springs and making flex cuts in the pcbs

[robert-zrkx]

Had a Precision 5520 back in 2017 and was asking for you guys to cover the precision line, glad it finally came around!

[Tivian_]

13:00 Fun fact - image sensors are usually very configurable chips, which means that in this case the sensor configuration is different. Looks like they fined tuned some color gain settings which are not really software tweaks as it causes actual hardware (image sensor) to behave differently.

[Zzonkers]

I love Alex first impressions. They way he observes and explains things is very entertaining.

[Acidic_Person]

4:22
“We also have 1tb of ram”
Who else noticed?

He did correct it thoo

[TheSmileyTek]

I love my work Dell Precision. I was really spoiled with an 11th Gen i9, 32GB RAM, and an RTX A5000, but I use hell outta all that juice. Constantly running multiple 3D apps at once, being in Design Technology.

[dannymartial]

The company I work at gives us these. I didn’t know about the Precision line until then. It’s definitely more of a business machine than a consumer product.

[genethebean]

One of the things I liked about the old Precision lineup was the advanced hardware feature set. Like the laptops were always known for their plentiful port selection and state-of-the-art I/O, both inside and out. Now it's just a more expensive, slightly fancier XPS, something that is cool and all but really detracts from that legacy.

I still daily drive a Dell Precision M6700 and the fact I have any port I would ever want, always at my disposal, with native port controllers and drivers, is something I don't take for granted.

[asadava]

My stepdad has a friend at Dell that sends him goodies, and he got one of these, and it was amazing seeing it for the first time. My mom now uses it.

[xiinite]

Smart card readers are also really useful for people living in countries with e-id cards, if you need to log on to government services like personal tax submission etc. I'm not sure how widespread this is in Europe, but we use it in Belgium.

[TheOzarkWizard]

Dell warranty tech here: The biggest difference between normal dell computers and the Precision line is the internals. Take the bottom panel off of both devices and youd be surprised. Also, dell now publishes service manuals online for all to use

[Cloud]

Been using the 5470 for the last month. This thing has replaced my 7560 due to it performing nearly the same. Absolute powerhouse for how light and portable it is. I'm sure you'll be happy with it Alex✌️

[BlindMango]

Fun Fact: Before the XPS 15 there was the XPS 14 Ultrabook, and it was my first laptop - it was great! It was quite beautiful and kicked off the design language of the modern XPS laptop we see today