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

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

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

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