After much consideration I have finally decided to buy Dell 7566 - a
Skylake 6700hq version (a successor of 7559 model).
I am running Debian testing (Stretch) with kernel 4.8.0.2 with nouveau
driver. After testing it for while I can now confidently say that in
this configuration the 7566 model is
>> I do not want to make premature conclusions, but so far it seems that CPU
>> temperatures on idle are about 40C
- This looks like good news after so many months of frustration, good work! I
still have not decided upon buying the 7566 (7559 is becoming harder to come
by), but this could give m
>> battery life is really good, like 3h to 4h good (only needing to lower the
>> brightness)
3-4 hours isn´t that great. Have you compared it with Win under the same load?
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Oh, and I have found this:
http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/precise/12.04-OSP1/ but it is Ubuntu
12.04, probably good for study purposes, not sure I would want using
4-years old OS ...
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Peter, thank for clarifying things for me, I appreciate it.
Also, have you tried the http://linux.dell.com/ ? It's kind of unofficial dell
Linux support site. Or so they say ...
>> Would it be illegal to release it?? Its open source anyway. :/
Sure, Ubuntu is open source, not sure if you can take
Just to clarify this for me, because I'm getting kind of lost in reading
all the posts, both Ubuntu developers in this thread, and kernel
developers in the kernel thread where this issue is reported are more or
less blaming this on Dell firmware, am I getting this correctly?
Concerning the Dell ce
Correction, I mean 7559,not 7759 ... sorry
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602888
Title:
Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool
Status in l
Occams Beard, have you tested the fan issue with kernel 4.8? Here, you
only mention kernel 4.7, but 4.8 was supposed to fix Skylake power
management issues. I have noticed people having fan issues on other
laptop models with Skylake, mostly i7 6700hq, (Asus, Lenovo), as well
in Linux, so this poin
Thank you so much for your inputs, everyone ...
> If Nvidia is properly shutted down, the only big issue lasted is a bad
Skylake power management in Linux (going no deeper than package c-state
3), but then almost any Skylake laptop is not the best choice.
Wasn't Skylake bad power management suppo
Dell has introduced a successor of Inspiron 7559 - Inspiron 7566 at the
end of October 2016 -
http://www.dell.com/sg/p/inspiron-15-7566-laptop/pd?oc=w51755724sgw10
.It has got the same CPU, GPU and display but comes with DDR4 RAM and
SSD disk. It also has a new look, much uglier than 7559 in my opi
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