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Dell Precision 5560

7owners with an opinion
20%of verdicts positive
0/0positive/negative since 2024
0happy after 3+ years

Praised for ease of use; criticized for battery and reliability.

What people wrote

Doesn’t like it
I had a personal XPS 13 back in 2015 or 2016 that I loved. Right now for work I have a Precision 5560 from 2021 which has all the drawbacks you listed and that I hate. I don't know if it's a year thing or a model thing, but certainly there is no brand consistency when it comes to Dell.
Neutral
I'm in the market for a new linux laptop again too. I primarily use a 2019 Macbook Pro which I like, but would like to be back on linux on laptop. I bought a Framework (11th gen intel) when it was first announced but ended up returning it: - small battery, despite heavily tweaking and running a very barebones setup I was running out of battery very quickly - though I loved 3:2, 13.5" was too small for my preference - macbook trackpads are still better After returning that I ended up buying a Dell Precision 5560 (also 11th gen intel), but ended up selling that as well: - I made a mistake and got the 1920x1200 screen and it's awful - trackpad, again Otherwise the Dell is pretty good. Decent battery life, great linux compatibility, good performance and build quality. I'm leaning towards trying out the X1 Carbon Gen 10 but I'm unsure if I'll like the 14" screen. I've also looked at the X1 Extreme but unsure about battery life (I don't need the Nvidia graphics, though I guess I could just disable that and use Intel). The Star Labs Starfighter looks great on paper but there are no videos or reviews of the production units yet and I'd like to wait and see a hands-on first.
Doesn’t like it
I have a Dell Precision 5560 with Ubuntu installed from the factory. While the article says that they find power management is where the laptop shines, I have had the opposite experience. I've found that often my 5560 is dead because the battery quickly drains when its off. Does anyone have a fix for this? It seems this thread has attracted some fellow users. Do you have this problem as well? It's really surprising to me that this was an issue out of the box from a vendor who has been selling Linux systems for a while now.
Doesn’t like it
We used to buy Precision 5500 series laptops (latest model: 5560), but they have issues with thermal management. Over time, the battery expands due to temperature to the point of moving the trackpad up. Now we are giving Dell a new chance using the 7500 series (now 7760). The 5560 is between 7.7mm (0.30") (front) and 11.64mm (0.56") (rear) thick. The thickness of the 7560 is between 25 mm (0.98") and 27.36 mm (1.08"). The increased thickness should solve (or help solve) the overheating.
Doesn’t like it
5560 is one of my least favorite laptops ever. The trackpad is unnecessarily big that my hand routinely clicks it when typing. Also, it has driver issues: - on windows if you move the trackpad quickly and then click, it resets your cursor position -- I've lost work because of this bug: https://imgur.com/a/ibNObJ8 - on linux (tried in fedora) there's an unresolved issue with the kernel driver where randomly the acceleration of the cursor will drop and the cursor movement will have a large amount of lag: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/61... Physically, out of the box it looks nice but over the course of 2-3 months becomes quite disgusting: it attracts smudges, the speaker grill fill up with dust. It's also heavy. The plastic housing on the edge of the display is so sharp that when I went to wipe dust off the screen I sliced my finger and started bleeding. Performance wise, it's okay, but I only get 5 hours in windows (VSCode, Slack, Firefox). The keyboard is okay, but I prefer the thinkpad keyboards because the delete key isn't offset from a touch power button like the dell. 3/10 would not buy again