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Follow up: After some mails were exchanged, I was offered a full refund from Dell. I am probably going this way, the machine was frustrating enough.

They have replaced the motherboard, fan and heatsink with pre-applied TIM. 1 - I am also having this issue but the buzzing is not always there

Hello, The technician was here yesterday and has replaced the parts. So far: The temperatures are sort of better now, laptop is finally idling at around 50-75 degrees during the basic browser work. During heavy load it will still go to 106-109°C, but at least it's doing something. I have not encountered BSODs yet, but I guess it is too soon to call it fixed, we will see. WHEA and ACPI Errors of the are still present after each reboot. The right front side of the palmrest, the area around the fingerprint reader, now depresses with a click each time I rest my hand on it. It is annoying. The problem with the throttle state lock is still present, which is very serious as it limits the machine very much. It is mostly present when CPU and GPU are both loaded simultaneously, like in games. After 10-15 minutes the laptop enters sort of a throttle state, where it locks CPU to 20-25W of power with very low clock, and does not come back, the only solution is to disconnect and reconnect the charger. This happens regardless if the laptop is connected to the main charger, or to the docking station. Having to do this several times per hour is simply annoying and unbearable for such a machine, without even considering the impact it has on the durability of the USB-C connector. It clearly looks like a platform problem. I'll raise you a question - what do we do now? Because I am getting really tired of this machine.

I have posted the comparison between PMP18 and P16 G3 and in R23 my result was over 36k for 285HX.

I will check tomorrow morning.

Which CineBench exactly?

Playing Helldivers II, sound coming through internal speakers. No buzzing though.

Weird thing happened today. This machine that I have upgraded to M2200 back in 2022, I have sold it about a year down the road to a friend. During the last month, the motherboard developed a problem (constant WLAN restarting despite multiple WLAN Module replacement, BSODs, weird behavior) so I have sourced a replacement MB from Ebay. When I have replaced it yesterday, I have done a clean installation of W11 per his request. The weird thing is, that the Nvidia driver (downloaded freshly from the Nvidia website) did not require INF mod anymore, the HWID of the GPU was matching straight away from the beginning and I have just installed it the normal way, and I cannot explain why this happened.

Some time ago someone here was describing a behavior where the system locks up in sort of a throttle state until the power connector is disconnected and plugged back in. I have observed the same behavior today.

Tested, mine does it too. Clearly a platform problem. Like I have said before, we have tested it, me and my friend. He has basically the same config as my PMP18, in his P16 G3. It is much slower, especially in GPU power and sustained CPU power, due to the power limit. Cant beat physics there, that 180W cap has its price. The cooling system is also smaller in size.

Check my testing about three or four pages back. You are paying same money for up to 30% more performance (at least if you include graphics) when you go Dell. But it has its issues. Thinkpad has flaws too.

Honestly, I have no experiences with running daily LTSC edition of Windows, except on vending machines, terminals etc. My installation has been optimized & stripped of unnecessary crap afterwards (WinUtil + Group Policies + StartAllBack), of course it cannot be compared to a LTSC, but I am satisfied with the thing as it is. TBH, the only serious bug that I have encountered with the recent 25H2 so far, is the certain update switching drive letters between C and D and corrupting the bootloader in the process. Observed on multiple computers during the last month. I understand the benefits of LTSC, but I am fine with normal Pro version. Once the hardware runs properly, the software I can live with. For example, the desktop machine in my signature has the same OS with exactly same mods / adjustments, and its running like a dream.

Nope, its a standard Windows 11 Pro 25H2 with some basic group policies added

I have nuked the original Dell Windows quite early - it was behaving even worse than a clean install. The total system power was spiking very high even during the idle usage, and the battery life was just poor, plus there were other issues. The clean install solved some of them. I would also like to stop caring, if the device would at least work normally. Most of the time it does, but I just cannot tolerate an unreliable device for this kind of money. It has to be 100% stable.

I have ordered it with the bottom door option and I have still received the standard, non-latch version ... 😄