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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 ... 😄

Its starting to feel like a diary of mine... ...but today the audio device spontaneously failed and the system had to be restarted for it to work again. Pro Max Plus 18 surely is full of surprises.

World has really gone insane with this product nomenclature. I was mad at Lenovo for switching the ThinkPad Workstation labeling three times during the last decade, but at least they look settled & logical (for now) with P16 Gen1=>2=>3. Then there is Dell with the Precision 77xx => ProMaxPlus nonsense => Now we are getting a Pro Max Plus Precision hybrid? God no. And dont even get me started about HP´s mess of a lineup with gems like ZBook 8 G1i 16. If they really wanted to implement a new nomenclature for the 16:10 models, they could have done Precision M8620 / M8820. M as mobile, 8 for the flagship series, 6/8 for screen size, 20 for the CPU generation (Core 200). And they would be settled for another decade at least. 8820=>8830=>8840 etc. Easy to read, easy to understand, easy to remember. Just like it was before this mess. Sorry about the rant.

Yesterday I was watching some movies during the night time, powered down the machine at around 11PM. Apparently, the machine powered on itself sometime after the shutdown, perhaps due to Updates.. Today morning I have powered it on to 0% battery status. Each day with this machine is wonderful. Already speaking with Dell about the possible solutions to all of my problems. On the other hand, the desktop Arrow Lake systems have been stellar so far, 100% stability and reliability even on systems with 256GB of RAM, four sticks running XMP settings.