Precision 5680

I have the Precision 5680 which (I might be blatantly wrong) has the first haptic dell trackpad, and it's excellent. 90-95% of the Macbook. It has some glitches such as the intensity randomly changing or it doesn't register motion but it happens rarely. I believe the laptops after that (the XPS from

Exact same issue for me. My Precision 5690 is my work supplied device. It randomly pops up with this problem, and I've tried two different Precisions (same model). I typically have to reboot my system to resolve. And frequently, my computer will not detect its internal speakers, just the external on

I've got nearly the same config (you don't specify which GPU - I've got the 3500/12GB - and my SSD is not Dell provided and has been through two upgrades since I bought it) and I've fortunately not had the same problem. Given the motherboard replacement and clean Windows install (assuming you mean r

hmm as I said, I had several Dell, all working well. Currently on a Precision 5680 model. Previously I had XPS and Inspiron... Everything always worked well out of the box. I had some old Thinkpad too (don't remember the model as it was years ago): no problem with that too. The only one that I had s

You make some good points. I just want to add for others coming across this post that new is fine if you have the right components. In general, Lenovo and Dell products are well-supported. My 13th gen Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon aura edition is running Linux flawlessly and I didn't even have to instal

NVidia drivers on laptops are always a nuisance; it's not just Dell. Often times adding ACPI profiles (or disabling them) on the kernel command line can help. Also, is the G-16 one of the ones that allows you to tell it to use the NVidia card directly in the BIOS? If so, whichever way you have it se