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I ran our benchmarks in Ultra Performance mode except for our battery test in Optimized.
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Other additions to the Windows 10 Pro preload (I was offered the update to Windows 11 during testing) include Dell PremierColor, which lets you choose vibrant, low-blue-light, SD or HD video, internet (sRGB), photo (Adobe RGB), or cinema (DCI-P3) color gamuts and Dell Power Manager, which monitors battery health and lets you choose cooling settings based on your tolerance for fan noise.
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The abovementioned Dell Optimizer software can fine-tune performance settings for individual apps, prioritize network bandwidth for videoconferences, and use the webcam as a proximity sensor to lock the workstation when you leave and awaken it when you return. (Windows recognizes a two-finger tap as a right-click and lets you configure a three-finger tap as a middle click.) Dell's laptop workstations don't offer a keyboard pointing stick as Lenovo's and HP's do. The touchpad is enormous and glides and taps smoothly, taking just a bit of pressure for a quiet click, but it has no buttons, let alone the middle button used by many ISV apps. It has a flat and shallow rather than snappy typing feel, but with a bit of practice you can maintain a brisk pace.

The backlit keyboard commits the HP faux pas of arranging the cursor arrow keys in a row, with half-sized up and down arrows stacked between left and right, and requires the Fn key paired with arrows for Page Up and Page Down although there are real Home and End keys.
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The webcam has the usual fuzzy 720p resolution and no privacy shutter it captures reasonably well-lit and colorful images free of noise or static. A Dell Optimizer utility includes a faux 3D audio toggle and conference-call settings for a quiet room, noisy office, or multiple voices. It's easy to make out overlapping tracks. Side-slit speakers pump out loud and clear sound, with surprisingly strong bass and no harshness or distortion even at top volume. There's no flex if you grasp the screen corners or press the keyboard deck. Two M.2 slots allow up to 4TB of storage.

The standard panel is 1,920 by 1,200 pixels the Firefly offers only a choice of 1,920-by-1,080 screens.ĭell's spec sheet says the Precision 5560 can be had with Intel's Core i9-11950H or Xeon W-11955M, though at the time of this writing in mid-November 2021, I couldn't configure a unit with one of those CPUs online. Our test unit was a far greater investment at $4,195 with an eight-core, 2.5GHz (4.8GHz turbo) Core i7-11850H processor, the 4GB RTX A2000, 32GB of memory, a 2TB PCI Express Gen 4 solid-state drive, and the finest available display-an IPS touch screen with slightly taller 16:10 rather than the familiar 16:9 aspect ratio and 3,840-by-2,400-pixel resolution.
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Dell's base model 5560 is $1,839 but has only an Intel Core i5 CPU and lowly integrated graphics (we won't even apply the term "workstation" to a PC without a discrete GPU). It's best suited for 2D or light 3D computer-aided design (CAD) rather than strenuous 3D rendering, virtual reality, or data science as the 7560 and its fellow flagships are, but it outstrips the ZBook Firefly 15 by offering an eight-core versus quad-core processor and an Nvidia RTX A2000 professional GPU that's three steps above the Nvidia T500 in the HP. Like all true workstations, the Precision 5560 carries independent software vendor (ISV) certifications for specialized apps. The trim Precision replaces the Firefly as our Editors' Choice winner among lightweight laptop workstations. It can't match the 7560's peak power-max RAM is 64GB instead of 128GB, for example-but it packs more processing cores and faster graphics than its rival the HP ZBook Firefly 15 G8. But what if you'd like something a little easier to carry than that 5.42-pound juggernaut? The Precision 5560 (starts at $1,839 $4,195 as tested) is based on Dell's elegant XPS 15 (9510) chassis and weighs only 4.3 pounds. If you want to chew through massive datasets or tackle colossal CGI rendering jobs with Dell's premier 15.6-inch mobile workstation, you want the Precision 7560.
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