 Have you ever gone to a computer website, cranked every dial in the configurator until you've got the most over-the-top, expensive machine possible, and then imagined what it'd be like to actually have it? Well, today we don't have to imagine. Oh, she's a heavy boy. Coming in at just under $13,000. Oh, this absolute mother of a machine has enough compute to make you go, whoa. Enough GPU to make you go, damn. And enough RAM to make you go, why would anybody need that much RAM in a laptop? Introducing the Dell Precision 7750. ["Spring by The Bachelorette"] At roughly double the thickness of the XPS 15 and nearly three and a half kilograms. Well, there's no way to sugarcoat it. She's a chonker. Compared to the XPS, we do get way more ports, including ethernet, a total of four display outputs, and a smart card reader for verifying user credentials. But to put it lightly, this is not the kind of machine that you wanna carry around in your backpack all day, unless this is your backpack. Now Dell has more reasonable machines in the Precision lineup that are basically the XPS 15 or 17, but with a Xeon and a Quadro. As for the 7750 here, it's a completely different beast. If the 240 watt power brick didn't tip you off, we have got some serious processing on the inside. For CPU, our unit is equipped with a Xeon W10885M, an eight core processor that can turbo up to 5.3 gigahertz, but has difficulty actually sustaining speeds like that on mortal laptops. Hopefully with the 7750s large and heavy cooler, we'll be seeing it get, well, at least close. Graphics are handled by an Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000, which has the same TU104 chip as the RTX 2080 gaming graphics card, except with 128 more shaders enabled and a cool 16 gigs of video memory, which means this is not only a beast workstation, it could actually be faster in games than the fastest gaming laptop that we have in the studio. So then how does it game? I mean, guess we better play some games. Yeah. Yeah. All right, let's fire up Shadow of the Tomb Raider, one of our favorite benchmarks. We're gonna run it on basically all maxed 4K, except motion blur, because motion blur is bad, and if you use it, you should feel bad. Well, it's not a smooth 60 FPS, we're actually running around 40, but I am screen recording at the moment, and remember that this is running at 4K, absolutely cranked, absolutely maxed. Screen space contact shadows do not go to high, even in the most extreme preset. Doesn't even hurt performance that much. Interesting. Whoa! Don't hit a rock! She hit a rock. As good an experience as that was though, when we tested it against the Alienware Area 51M, the fastest gaming laptop we have here, well, the Area 51M did win, which isn't really surprising, given that it's got a desktop processor, game optimized drivers, and also happens to be water-cooled now, but I was still hoping for the precision to somehow eke out a win, and maybe it would have if Dell had pulled the same stunt as ASUS with their StudioBook One, the only laptop with a Quadro RTX 6000 inside it, although they did have to pull off some pretty funky ventilation tricks in order to make that work. All right, so it's not quite the fastest, but just because you're not the fastest doesn't mean you're terrible. Second fastest ain't half bad, and having that kind of grunt makes a huge difference in applications that are able to take advantage of it. So let's give it a go in Markbench, a video encoding benchmark that was created by one of our video editors, Mark, that's basically an identical timeline in both Adobe Premiere Pro and Apple Final Cut Pro. The goal here is twofold, to show how much GPU can help with video encoding, and to tease the Apple fanboys about how badly their precious Final Cut gets destroyed. Or, well, I hope. While these are running, I wanna talk about some of the comments you guys left on our review of the Dell XPS 15. Some of you said that we went pretty light on Dell compared to Apple for the mediocre thermals and power delivery in the XPS 15. And there is a reason for this. Dell is not marketing the XPS 15 as the be-all and end-all for professionals. I mean, sure, with a machine like this, you can edit videos or work on CAD models, but if you're doing it professionally, Dell is going to advise you to go with their business focused and more expensive precision lineup. So we're definitely going to hold it to a different standard, which means hopefully you're keeping your thermals under control here, buddy. There it is, boys. And what are we at on the MacBook? So it is twice as fast as our kitted out MacBook Pro, which I guess is sort of an indication. You don't really need a computer like this to edit videos. Maybe a lower spec version with less RAM, because the thing that makes this machine particularly special compared to other laptops is the crazy 128 gigabytes of DDR4 memory. So to answer our earlier question, why would anybody need that much RAM in a laptop? Simon, he's an engineering student who reached out to us the other day because his flow simulation, gosh darn it, just wouldn't run on his personal machine due to, you guessed it, a lack of system memory. Let's see how it does on this. We'll let the Mac keep tugging away in the background here. Okay. This is showing just how much you can get done on this computer while you know the peasants keep on exporting. Oh, ouch. So on Simon's computer, he, without like the big honeycomb thing on the front, it took him an hour. And with the honeycomb thing, it just crashed. On this computer right here, how long do you think it took with the honeycomb? I don't know. I'm gonna say 20, I don't even know what kind of computer he has. Like 20 minutes. Half a second. Half a second? Half a second. What kind of machine is he running? E-machines like? I don't know. He does only have four gigs of RAM, so that's definitely a problem. Ouch. This used like over a hundred when creating the mesh. Can we like see anything? Yeah, just a second here. I wanna see the simulation. I'm tearing it all right now. We're living in the simulation. Show. The matrix. There. Ooh. That's what we did. Oh, that's pretty cool. You can cut it right here. Boom. And so how long did it take to run the whole thing with the mesh? With the mesh, it took about 50 minutes. And how long did his machine take to run it with the mesh? It didn't. It just couldn't even mesh it. Huh. So this shows like meters per second, like air velocity through a thing. What's the purpose of the Honeycomb mesh? It's probably a fan rate here. And when you have the fan, it would create a whole bunch of turbulence. Like everything would be all flippity floppity-ing. So we'd go through this mesh, so it's all kind of like going through. The funny thing though, is that while during our gaming testing, our CPU got as high as a hundred degrees and actually thermal throttled, while running a simulation like this and using all 128 gigs of our memory, it turned out that CPU thermals weren't a problem at all. Our CPU was able to maintain 4.3 gigahertz across all eight cores while running at about 75 degrees Celsius and consuming a consistent 60 watts of power with spikes up to a hundred watts. And it did it just fine in a laptop. Now we're still a little disappointed that a combined load that actually hits both CPU and GPU completely can overwhelm the cooling solution. But at least in situations like this one, it holds its own nicely. As for the screen, well, it's fine. It's 16 by nine when the rest of the precision lineup has switched over to 16 by 10. There's no touch option even, and it lacks the succulent visuals of the XPS lineup. But it isn't all bad. I mean, Dell could have made the panel more vivid, but the anti-reflective coating is awesome if you're working under fluorescent lights and the 4K 17 inch panel is big enough to make this really feel like a workstation replacement. For inputs, oh, this is a bit of a contentious area. The new Dell precision lineup is the first that they've done to drop the pointing stick, AKA the nipple mouse, and then increase the track pad size. And I, wait, sorry, this is contentious? In my opinion, the only thing that should be contentious about this is that they didn't go far enough. I mean, this is a usable size track pad, but yeah, I might actually be upset that they took away my nipple mouse and didn't give me the track pad off the XPS 15. Look at the size of this by comparison. They should have just taken that. It's contentious, but not for the reasons that I think you probably meant in the script. As for the keyboard, it is unsurprisingly excellent. It's not quite as snappy as the one on the XPS 15, but it's the kind of keyboard that you could easily sit down at all day and write up reports on how the radiographic testing shows the contractors that they need to redo all the welding for free or whatever reports someone who uses this needs to write up, like how they should be allowed to expense a new water bottle from lttstore.com so they can stay hydrated at work, whatever. Oh, hey, MacBook finished. It's good, good for you. We gotta be popping. Spudger. Yeah, could spudger. Real men rip laptops apart with their bare hands. Oh yeah. Well, that explains why it's so heavy. Is this a single CNC piece bottom? Man, did they XPS it? Oh, damn, they did. They did. Look at that. It's beautiful. Oh. Like sometimes they try to get it really smooth even on the inside. Just, oh, just leave the milling marks on. I love it. Oh my God. This thing has four M.2 slots? That is so cool. There's I think one, one terabyte and two, two terabytes. Yeah, this is a two terabyte unit. This is a really weird M.2 like hold down mechanism. Oh, I think I get it. But there. Oh, shoot. Oh shoot. Oh, wow. That magnet is so strong. It grabs the screw from there. Did they cheap out on us? You holding out on us, Dell? You holding out? There's an empty one. Send it back. I'm done. I'm out. No, forget it. I'm out. No, I still want to play with it. I'm back. Okay. So the battery, which is pretty close to the maximum allowed on a commercial flight, 95 watt hours, is expected to give you about eight hours of screen time. But if you do any real work, that's gonna quickly drop down to more like an hour. Now I've got a note in here to mention why vapor chambers kick butt. We have a video coming up about that. You wanna make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it. But basically what makes the cooling possible on this puppy is these right here. So it uses a combination of vapor chambers and these large heat exchangers back here to get rid of all that flipping heat from the GPU as well as the CPU. What is this? Does this have a cellular card in it? Oh, it does. Yeah. Oh, nice. Wow. It's got all the trimmings for the low, low price of what, 13, 13 grand? Now there are people that require this kind of power, but the thing is most of them will either use massive servers that are onsite at their work or compute clusters to actually crunch the crazy numbers. That doesn't mean though that this is completely without a use case. The main one I can think of is offshore oil and gas, for example. So in a scenario like that, the engineer might be flown in. So carrying their server in their backpack is a pretty nice quality of life improvement. And while they're onsite, they might be required to run complex flow simulations. And of course an oil and gas firm, well, under normal conditions anyway, won't blink an eye at a $13,000 laptop if it's gonna help them pump $55 million of oil a day out of the ground or the sea or wherever it is they get oil from. Another feasible use case is of course, you know, the usual suspects for desktop replacements or as we like to call them, semi-mobile workstations. So, you know, a work from home architectural engineer, civil engineer, researcher, et cetera. So if you're one of those and trying to figure out what to spend the rest of your 2020 budget on so that it doesn't get cut next year, maybe consider this instead of the MacBook Pro because, you know, it's actually for pros. Well, pros with like jacked arms anyway. I'll give the MacBook that it's a lot lighter. If you guys enjoyed this video and you wanna check out another crazy laptop, maybe have a look at Alex's short circuit video on the, yes, that. The StudioBook Pro. It's crazy. It's got an RTX 6000. Like what?