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    I ended up getting an Ecobee3 Lite. Rather happy with it. A main draw was the total lack of a microphone for smart assistant integration. I also like how it shows the actual current temperature and not the target temperature as the large number on the display. And, it supports setting a threshold for "cool" and "heat" at the same time (as long as they are five degrees apart, °F), which will help during couple of weeks or so of fall/spring transition when I need heat in the morning but cool in the afternoon, without having to go and remember to switch it from heat mode to cool mode and back. ...It otherwise supports what you'd expect from a smart thermostat... remote control via app, scheduling, hourly cycling of the air even if cool or heat is not needed.
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    Waze is owned by Google so it doesn't really feel like I'm getting off of Google Maps if I switch to it. 😕
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    I wonder if your system is built but the status is "stuck". Does FedEx show an an anticipated ship date? Strange that they'd issue a label if they weren't preparing to ship within the next few days. ("Shipper reference" should be your Dell order number.)
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    Precision 7770 has 3080 Ti option, and Precision 7760 has 3080 option. (I have Precision 7770 + 3080 Ti arriving this week.) See:
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    Maybe you can PM @zhongze12345 and get his attention.
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    I've also double-stacked cards like this in my M6700 with mPCIe-to-NGFF adapter. Damaged the motherboard on the first attempt (watch out), expensive/time-consuming mistake. https://www.nbrchive.net/forum.notebookreview.com/threads/m-2-ngff-wireless-cards-in-precision-m4x00-m6x00-my-experience-with-m6700.821863/
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    They exist. I have one. Wi-Fi will work in this slot but not Bluetooth. There is no USB pass-through. There is a little header thing (white plug at the end) that you could plug to an actual USB port to get the Bluetooth working. I got it from eBay over two years ago so the listing isn't live anymore, but I found this tiny picture. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BiYAAOSwpz9eE-oE/s-l140.jpg (It looks like 2280 size but there are pieces that you can break off to make it shorter. You can install a 2242 card in a 3042 slot, it's just "skinnier".) The item name was: M.2 Key(B+M) to M.2 Key A Adapter Card Wireless BT Adapter Card Converter Q4M3 [Edit] Found a better picture.
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    Dell order status page says “build complete”. New shipping label created this morning. FedEx says delivery on Wednesday (but they don't have the package yet). [Edit] Dell also knocked 10 days off of the estimated delivery date, which is now July 26. Seems like they're still giving themselves plenty of leeway if they're really going to be ready to deliver the package to FedEx on Monday... Also, the “cancel order” button is now disabled.
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    This won't have to wait until the review, I'll be trying it first thing 😄
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    Reading around elsewhere, seems like it is normal for the shipping label print step to happen as soon as the system is on the way over from the factory, but (obviously) no tracking activity until a few days after that when it hits the local carrier. Clearly going by cargo plane (FedEx label origin location is right next to the Chicago airport). Just not sure why it looks like they cancelled my shipping label, then…. Definitely the Dell package, it has my order number in the reference field.
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    Nice! I knew that you were looking but didn't realize that you had ordered one. That should mean that the system has already made its way from China (or wherever the factory is) and should be heading out via FedEx at any time, hopefully tracking is updated with an exact delivery date soon. (Looking back at the Precision 7X30 launch timeframe... My NBR posts seem to indicate that with the 7530, I saw a FedEx shipping label printed on Friday, but no real tracking activity until Monday, and then the system arrived on Tuesday.) Questions — When did you place your order? Which shipping method did you use? What date does it say your system entered production? You could have it next week 😄 [Edit] Just checking FedEx Delivery Manager, I have a shipping label that was created early this morning and then cancelled. It has a status of “Pending” and not “Cancelled”, though. Weird. Anyway, I wonder if mine is almost ready, too…
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    I can say that my Precision 7560 is also domain-joined and I haven't experienced this issue with the latest Windows patch. ...Have you tried just disabling all of the Windows Hello stuff and then turning it on again? (I.e. remove the PIN and then set up a new one.) I figure it has to "cache" your AD credentials somehow (password hash gets sent in to authenticate you when you login in with your fingerprint or PIN) so maybe something got messed up with that.
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    I was going to check but it looks like that video has now been marked private... but you are right, I'd expect a touch/OLED to be glossy. That said, I have seen matte LCD touchscreens before, and I've never seen an OLED panel in a laptop at all (just in phones which are obviously glossy), so my expectations might be off. Thanks. I got my order in on the first day, but I know @operator ordered before me (from Europe) and also has a late August date. We were previously speculating that maybe 7770 systems are a bit more ready to go than 7670, but I haven't seen any other early 7770's either. So, I'm little bit worried that my estimate is inappropriately optimistic because it doesn't line up with everyone else's. But it did go to production status within 72 hours, and based on past experience, that means it should be here within two weeks or so.
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    Yes, all of these systems had a base option that was a plain DVD-ROM drive. You can install another drive (I've done it on my M6700). It needs to be an "ultra slim" drive, I can't remember the exact size but its around 9.5mm or 9.7mm. The 12mm ones are too tall. You'll want one with a flat faceplate/bezel (some might have one that is rounded at the bottom to match the style of the laptop it came from) but it's actually pretty easy to snap the faceplate off and replace it too.
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    Curious why you guys selected A5500 over GeForce RTX 3080 Ti? GeForce will offer the same performance for cheaper in many cases. Do you use ISV/professional applications? (If so, it totally makes sense.) Did anyone else order from U.S. territory? I'm also wondering why I'm the only one with an early August ETA. I was looking back at the Precision 7X30 pre-release thread yesterday. Seems like a few early purchasers all got their systems around the same few days despite being in different countries. https://www.nbrchive.net/forum.notebookreview.com/threads/precision-7730-5530-7530-coffee-lake-pre-release.809278/page-30.html#post-10750185 I remember deliveries of last year's 7X60 systems being much more staggered out even among early purchasers. (Figured this was due to supply chain / global shipping issues, which are still a problem now but should be better than last year...)
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    I can check on filling up the RAM. What do you experience when you try to get close to the RAM limit? Does the system start to misbehave, or is it just Windows wanting to start paging stuff out to disk so it never looks like more than ≈110GB is in active use?
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    I can confirm that the fingerprint scanner is working as expected for me after the latest Windows Update patch from Tuesday. Two systems: Precision M6700 (FIPS) and Precision 7560 (non-FIPS). Both running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 (19044.1826). FIPS is a separate gold square in the palmrest on all models. Non-FIPS will either be a "swipe" style reader in the palmrest, or integrated into the power button. ...Is your Precision system attached to an Active Directory domain? Do you use a SmartCard? (If not, I do not think that the Microsoft article really applies.) It looks like the English language for this statement is "This option is currently unavailable." This might help you with Googling for a solution. I saw some articles like this which discuss resetting various things, checking group policy, etc. https://supertechman.com.au/how-to-fix-windows-hello-this-option-is-currently-unavailable/
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    If you want to use single-cable docking (no AC adapter connected to the system) — WD19DC / WD19DCS is your only real choice. (Note, 7770 might take a performance hit with only 210W of power available instead of 240W.) If you are willing to use dock cable + AC adapter plugged directly into the system — pick any dock you want (even third-party).
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    More chatter about "Windows 12" dropping in 2024, restarting the three-year cycle between major Windows releases. https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-12-microsoft-goes-back-to-releasing-new-windows-every-three-years/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-said-to-be-ready-to-shake-up-the-windows-update-schedule-again/ (Will Windows "X" Enterprise LTSC 2024 be based on Windows 11, or Windows 12? Wouldn't be surprised if they don't even decide that internally until pretty late.)
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    RAID 1 is mirroring so it really only makes sense to do with two drives. If you want RAID 0 (striping / "one big drive") then you should be able to do it with three drives. Easy enough to set up RAID arrays after you receive the system. Intel's configurator is much more flexible than what you see playing with the Dell web site...
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    BIOS update 1.3.1 has been re-posted. It's not the same file posted previously; this one has a signature date of July 12. https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=16RVV
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    BIOS update 1.13.0. - Fixed the issue where the system cannot detect the dock when you disable the External USB Port option in the BIOS setup. - Fixed the issue where LAN port on the dock does not work when you connect a Thunderbolt 3 hard drive. This issue occurs when you disable the External USB Port option in the BIOS setup. https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=TMMTG
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    OK, so they might be telling you when it is on the way from the China factory to a local shipping depot, where in the case for me, that time will still be covered by "In production". ...Suspecting machines built in China and going to the U.S. go pretty quickly via cargo plane (they probably wouldn't be able to meet their estimated arrival if it went by sea) but maybe that is not the case for all destinations... 🤔
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    I'm a little bit curious why yours shows six segments on the order status page, and mine shows five. Do they have an extra status for some non-U.S. territories? The status that shows on mine are: Order received by Dell Confirmed In production Shipped Delivered (You should be able to see them all listed out if you view the same page in a desktop browser.) In this case, "In production" also covers the time after the build is complete, when it is still making its way from the factory in China to a local shipping depot. They usually won't mark it "shipped" until they have a local tracking number for it. (Sometimes they ship directly from China via UPS or something, and in that case it will be marked shipped and you'll see progress from China when you track it.) Holding out hope that it will arrive a bit early, before the end of July. Precision 7560's ordered at launch last year shipped after being in "in production" status for 15 days (and that was when global shipping lanes were more jammed up than now). I also ordered a Precision 7530 at launch in 2018 and it was received 20 days after launch. (I can't pull up the history on that one to see when it went from "confirmed" to "production" to "shipped".) This 7770 has second-day shipping so it won't be long from "shipped" to receipt.
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    Well, the Precision 7560's that we got last year came in individual boring plain brown cardboard shipping boxes, so if they really do have "slick" black boxes designed specifically for these systems (like they also do for XPS / Precision 5000), that's sort of cool. ...Not that it really matters that much what the box looks like, once you're past the first few minutes of having the system. [Edit] Noticed that they have a proper unboxing of the Precision 5470 featuring @Dell-Mano_G... They also have some for the new Latitude systems and it seems like they're using the same design ideas across the board.
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