christobevii3

Yeah, I think a 280/320w system for the rtx 4000 and 5000 would make sense with a redesigned dock. I did test today direct on power and on dock and didn't see a difference in performance. The 7680 and 7780 are too similar. We used to carry the 15" and 17" but the 16" and 17" are too similar. I'd have to check but we buy a few hundred of these each year and has been a problem on the last two versions. Our higher end users are using these for Ansys, Autocad, and Creo. They're basically fancy desktops that rarely move off their desk unless they work from home. Chasing portability/battery life is not the highest want when you are trying to turn around a live business decision in 12-24 hours based on a simulation.

If you had recommendations to dell what would you say? Add a usb c port for 240w power delivery and a thunderbolt 100w so we could get 320-340w chassis? I'm not really sure what options are feasible right now but we are a partner and I can give feedback.

I'm testing the rtx 2000, 3500, 4000, and 5000 versions of these laptops at work. Does it seem the chassis is limited in power delivery between the 4000 and 5000 card? I'm not seeing much difference in performance running basic testing I have and they both max the power adapter out testing with a killawatt. Also, if the docking station solution is going to limit power 30w even more this may be even worse. I'll try to run testing on this today.