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Dell Precision 7670

5owners with an opinion
20%of verdicts positive
0/2positive/negative since 2024
0happy after 3+ years

Criticized for reliability and performance.

What people wrote

Doesn’t like it
My current laptop (Dell Precision 7670) had flashing light error on the other day, that the Dell support paper suggested was potentially "loose ram". So I turned it upside down and opened it up and to my interest/curiosity I found this RAM (CAMM) in it. its a very interesting design. What I do find interesting is that there is no extra slot for more ram. so if /when i decide i want more than the 16GB I need to remove the existing. which is only slightly better than soldered ram in my opinion.
Doesn’t like it
That's not normal for Dell. Believe me. We bought a boat load of very recent Precision series and getting 12-18 months out of them would be considered a miracle. I've got a dead 5550 in the cupboard (thermal failure) and my 7670 is dying now as well. Also I have so many blown up Dell docks I look like a far Eastern recycling slum at the moment. Their monitors are good though!
Doesn’t like it
Same. I've got a work Precision 7670 in top spec, literally a £7000(!!!!!) machine, and it overheats within 5 seconds of being under load, the CPU hits 100C and throttles down hard . It's equipped with a 3080Ti but it's the same story - the GPU overheats and throttles down to 200MHz, so anything you play is just a stuttery mess. And it's not surprising - inside it there are 2 heat pipes going to two small fans with only one air outlet. Even my "gaming" MSI laptop with half the spec has much beefier cooling, it can run its 3070Ti under full load indefinitely. Not to mention their £400 thunderbolt docks that work maybe 50% of the time.
Likes it
My work computer was recently upgraded from a Dell Precision 7520 to a Dell Precision 7670 (i7-12850HX, intel graphics, 32GB RAM, 2x 1TB NVMe SSD). We use Dell Precisions for developer laptops and I am happy with them. I personally run Linux on them, and have a Windows VM (on KVM) for Windows-only stuff. As Linux distro, Debian has been my favorite since forever (Potato). The last couple of years, I used to run Debian Stable, but I went back to Debian Testing on the Dell Precision 7670 for better support for the Alder Lake cpu and graphics. I am a software engineer and work mainly with .net; mostly cross-platform .net 6 nowadays. Regarding the 7670: - love the screen (1920x1200) - love the look and the weight; thinner and lighter than the previous generations - I like the big trackpad, allthough I miss the physical buttons (middle click is very difficult in a dim environment, because you have to aim about right in the middle of the bottom of the trackpad) - I was suspicious about the keyboard, but I'm pleasantly surprised: I like typing on it - why-oh-why does every laptop vendor always try to be "innovative" with the keyboard? - I hate the half-size up & down - I'm happy that the num-lock got a light to indicate whether num lock is on or off - I hate that "home" and "end" got dual function with "F11" and "F12" - I hate the position of usb-c + headphone out on the right side of the laptop: that specific usb-c port is the only one that can be used for an external screen; if y